Vajrasattva and Vajrasatvamika: A Buddhist icon of the Royal Court of Guge

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Figure 7: Buddha of the Five Families
leaded brass with pigments and cold gold
height 14.3 cm
Potala Palace

photograph by Ulrich von Schroeder, as per Buddhist sculpture in Tibet, 2001: fig. 33)