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Who used these Antique Tibetan storage & offering cabinets?
Furniture in Tibet, according to all historical accounts, only existed in monasteries and lamaseries. The secular home, regardless of the financial assets or the religious following had no furniture per se. Tibetan furniture is then actually Tibetan Buddhist furniture. In my research I can find no records of furniture in Tibetan homes, quite the contrary, William Rockhill's accounts of his travels in Tibet in 1888
notes that there is a complete absence of furniture in even the most affluent homes. What we consider throw rugs or hall runners were the beds, chairs, and sofas of the Tibetan. Monks had some small altars or tables, the larger pieces were exclusively made for lama's and the best pieces were made for visiting high lama's residences. Monasteries typically have a residential compound reserved for a visiting high lama and/or many times one reserved for the Dalai Lama. Over the years these Lama's cabinets were passed down or sold to another lama or monk. It is the usual custom for the possessions of a monk or lama to be sold upon his death and the proceeds dispersed as directed by the deceased person prior to his death.
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The Solid Path to Enlightenment
AGE: circa early 1800s
Dimensions: Height=31.9" W=40.5" D=15.75"
SOLD SHIPPED TO ANNAPOLIS, MD
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Age: 1890-1910
Material: Asian Cedar
Dimensions: H= 44.5" W= 48"
Depth of the top tier = 12.75"
Depth of the bottom tier = 17.5"
Height of the bottom tier = 29"
Price $4,795.00
SOLD SHIPPED TO BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA
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"Find Enlightenment ~ Escape the illusion"
Materials: Juniper and spruce
Dimensions: H 32" W=30" D=16"
Age circa 1900
Item on layaway
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"Tantric meditation" Rare blue and vermilion Snow Lion
Age: 1860-1880
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar
Dimensions: H=39.25" W=41.5" D=16.75"
Price $2460.00
SHIPPED TO CINCINNATI
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"Wisdom Leads to Enlightenment"
Materials: Asian cedar & oil pine
Dimensions: H 31.75" W=29.5" D=15.6 "
Age circa: 1900
Price $1525.00
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"Wisdom, insight and Protection"
Age: circa 1850
Material: juniper with some elm
Dimensions: H=40" W= 33 " D= 16 "
Price $1975.00 |
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"Wisdom to become a Bodhichitta "
Age: circa 1930
Materials: predominately oil pine
Dimensions: H=32" W=39.5" D=15"
Price $1475.00
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Age: circa 1850
Material: juniper with some elm
Dimensions: H=39" W= 32.75 " D= 17 "
"OM MANI PADME HUM "
Price $1975.00
Item on layaway
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Age: circa early 15th century
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar
Dimensions: Height=39.25" W=47.62" D=15"
Price $2975.00 |
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Age: circa early 15th century (1400-10 AD)
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar
Dimensions: Height=39" W=44.5" D=15"
Price $3475.00
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"Steps to Leading an Abundant Healthy Life"
Age: 1930-1940
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar
Dimensions: H=33.5" W=40.5" D=14.75"
Price $1425.00
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"The mantric tantric Bodhisattva"
Age: circa 1870
Material: Juniper, spruce
Dimensions: Height=32 " W=40.5" D=15.5"
Price $2195
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Materials: Juniper and spruce
Dimensions: H 31.75" W=29.62" D=15.88"
Age circa 1935
Price $1145.00
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"Teachings of Shakyamuni - Prayer Horse"
Age: ca. 1770
Dimensions: H=29" W=36.5" D=14.5"
Price $2495
SOLD SHIPPED TO DELAND, FL
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"Bodhichitta wisdom"
Age: 1840-1860
Dimensions: H= 40" W= 33.25" D= 16.5"
Price $1695 |
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"Bodhichitta motivation"
Age: 1850-1870
Dimensions: H= 40 " W= 33 " D= 16 "
Price $1785
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