[Buddha-l] Meteorite Buddhist statue brought to Germany bySSexpedition

[Christopher Fynn]

In the 1970's there was also an elderly German "Bonpo Lama" living in
Toronto who also looked remarkably similar and wore the same kid of
hat. He had a student I knew who worked in the sculpture foundry of
the Ontario College of Art who used to make strange images and dorjes
out of metals like titanium for this "Lama". Thinking about it, it is
possible that he is the source.


On 02/10/2012, Dan Lusthaus <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That, in fact, was one of the theories advanced. I pointed out that the hat,
>
> face and beard bore a remarkable resemblance to Lama Anagarika Govinda. He
> may not have posed for it, but he may have been the exemplar prototype for
> the depiction. All the iconography, btw, is off.
>
> Dan