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Keywords: Tibetan - Buddha Shakyamuni - Walters 543082 - Three Quarter.jpg Around the year 1000 it became common in Pala India to depict the Buddha Shakyamuni with a crown on his head to indicate that at the time of his enlightenment he was crowned by cosmic Buddhas This belief was carried to Tibet It had a real-life counterpart in the diadem initiations practiced by Tantric Buddhists-ritual crownings that signified passage to a still-higher spiritual status century 11 12 bronze with traces of gilding cm 36 5 27 9 17 8 accession number 54 3082 19134 Vajra Arts Hong Kong date and mode of acquisition unknown John and Berthe Ford Baltimore January 1970 by purchase Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2010 Desire and Devotion Art from India Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque 2001-2003 place of origin south-central Tibet Walters Art Museum license Tibetan art in the Walters Art Museum Bronze statues of Tibet Gautama Buddha Bhumisparshamudra
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