Buddhist Art Gallery: Northern Himalayan Section [Photo gallery]
These photos represents Buddhist objects from the Northern Himalayan Section in Nepal, such as paintings, scriptures, sculptures, ritualistic objects, etc. The items are exhibited in the National Museum of Nepal (Kathmandu), also known as the Rashtriya Museum.
Buddhism once entered Tibet from Nepal was blended in its own way there. Such Tibetan Buddhism divided into many schools like Ninma pa, Sakya pa, Kagyu pa and Gelug pa spread to the Northern Himalayan region in Nepal. It has also developed many rites and rituals which require ritualistic objects like Phurpa, Dorje, Charm against epidemics etc. and many idols. For such activities they developed various kinds of Stupa Chortens and in this collection one can just peep in the Buddhist art of High Himalayan region of Nepal.
Gallery: 198 images
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