Tibetan khatvanga or tantric staff
- Image
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- Created Date
- Between 1932 and 1933
- Description
'Early artistic depictions of the Buddhist khatvanga portray it as a sturdy skull-topped club with a short tapering shaft or leg, rather than the long, thin and delicate ritual implement portrayed in later Buddhist art. In the hands of Tibetan artists the vast majority of Indian weapons took on a much more refined and aesthetic quality and these weapons then became ritual objects depicted in the hands of deities.'
Beer, R. (1999). The encyclopedia of Tibetan symbols and motifs. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc. (Plate115).
Grayscale
Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 5
- Creator
Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Harrison Forman Collection
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Tibet - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Type
- image
- Format
- Nitrate negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Tibetan khatvanga or tantric staff. Between 1932 and 1933. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tibet/id/195. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978, (Between 1932 and 1933) Tibetan khatvanga or tantric staff. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tibet/id/195
- MLA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tibet/id/195>.