Eleven-Headed Avalokiteshvara

ca. 1800

49.5 cm 109.2 cm 30.5 cm

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More than 200 years ago, a Buddhist abbot (head monk) or lama sealed dozens of tightly rolled scrolls with sacred texts within this hollow sculpture. The offering of these texts was part of a multi-step ritual to consecrate the sculpture so that the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara...

Sculpture

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Rudolph Antiques, New York; purchased by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, February 7 1968; given to Walters Art Museum, 2012.
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en
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