[Buddha-l] Meteorite Buddhist statue brought to Germany by SSexpedition

[Christopher Fynn]

Yes - I was rather wondering about the unusual dress and hat and the
rather Nordic appearance of Vaisravana. Perhaps Schäfer or another
member of his expedition got someone in Tibet or Mongolia to carve it.
A friend had a copy of a 1930's book in German, printed in
black-letter script, about that expedition. Many of the photographs in
that book looked to me like they were deliberately set up or contrived
to show some link to Nazi belief and symbolism. This could be
something similar.

On 02/10/2012, Dan Lusthaus <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> This find of unprovenanced origins was discussed on another list some days
> ago, and the expert consensus was that it is a modern forgery.
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Fynn" <chris.fynn at gmail.com>
>
>> Article about a  Buddhist statue carved from a meteorite in Mongolia
>> which was brought to Germany from Tibet by the Ernst Schäfer
>> expedition :
>>
>> http://news.discovery.com/history/meteorite-buddha-120926.html
>
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