Mar 15, 2009

Few shots from Musée Guimet




khaṭvāṅga



This picture in not very good. This is a huge three blade dagger.


3 comments:

PDSz said...

I see we spotted the same things :) there's also the 'dakini-skirt' from human bone...

AC said...

Well, that one I didn't noticed it. :(

Actually I was fascinated by those items because some of them I met in Vajrabhairava text and now I was able to actually see them. In this case, seeing was understanding. ;)

PDSz said...

yeah, it's very different when you meet the realia of these texts.

e.g. I thought Tibetan descriptions of travels, monasteries, etc. were really boring. until I actually saw them, then it became interesting.