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Description: | Material from across Asia is held in the Asian collection. From Tibet there is a stone mani or prayer stone and from China a bronze hand bell. The collection also contains a large gilded sculpture of the Buddha and three smaller gilded stone figures, all thought to be of Burmese origin (the smaller figures, a monk and two representations of the Buddha, were possibly donated by Cuthbert Glass in the early 19th century). There is a steelyard and lead weight (possibly Chinese or Japanese); and some artisan’s tools (knife, axe and adze) probably from Indonesia. A Tibetan scroll or ‘thangka’ was collected by the late Hugh Richardson (the eminent Tibetan scholar and associate of the present Dalai Lama) while working in Tibet and presented to the University about 1951. The collection also contains the beautifully decorated base of a Burmese altar. | Subjects: | ALTAR Indonesia lead weight MANI Tibetan Scroll steelyard Burma KNIFE AXE HAND BELL non-western ethnography Tibet thangka stone figure STATUE ANTHROPOLOGY SWORD China ADZE | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | Cuthbert Glass | Contributor: | Material donated by individuals to the University of St Andrews | Identifier: | ET:C20 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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