Karmapa, Buddhist Handmade Statue, Silver and Chocolate Oxidized, Face Painted
The historical seat of the Karmapas is Tsurphu Monastery in the Tolung valley of Tibet. The Karmapa's principal seat in exile is the Dharma Chakra Centre at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, India. His regional monastic seats are Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in New York and Dhagpo Kagyu Ling in Dordogne, France.
Due to a controversy within the Karma Kagyu school over the recognition process, the identity of the current 17th Karmapa is disputed by some.
The face of Karmapa is painted with gold to enhance its significant features, particularly the eyes, and lips. This detailed painting is essential as it brings forth the crucial attributes of the expression of eyes and lips that metal carving alone cannot capture.
Moreover, the painted face serves as a symbolic and sacred ritual in Buddhism, preparing the statue for consecration and practice. The act of painting the face with gold in Buddhism holds deep meaning. It represents the intention to bring life and expression to the statue, imbuing it with a sense of vitality and presence. The application of gold on the face showcases the devotion and craftsmanship of the artisans, ensuring that every detail is carefully attended to honor the sacred essence of the Karmapa. Read More . . .
The Karmapa features a captivating combination of partly silver plating and dark oxidation. This unique finishing technique combines the lustrous shine of silver with the rich, deep tones achieved through oxidation. In the process of creating this finish, selected areas of the Karmapa are expertly silver-plated, creating a radiant and reflective surface that catches the light. The remaining areas are intentionally oxidized, resulting in a darkened patina that adds depth and character to the piece. Read More . . .
This Karmapa of Karmapa is made by the process of the Lost Wax system. This is a very complicated, time consuming and historic process of making metal sculptures.Which is why it is sometimes called Precision Casting as well. Hence the sculptures made by this process are comparatively expensive. There are many new, advanced and less time consuming methods of casting metal sculptures available as well. But due to the benefits provided by the traditional lost wax system in quality control and customization, we prefer the Loss wax system over Ceramic molding, or sand casting to make our Karmapa.
Below we have tried to illustrate the process of making a loss wax system statue: Read More . . .
The source of the oral lineage, traditionally traced back to the Buddha Vajradhara, was transmitted to the Indian master of mahamudra and tantra called Tilopa (989-1069), through Naropa (1016-1100) to Marpa Lotsawa and Milarepa. These forefathers of the Kagyu (Bka' brGyud) lineage are collectively called the "Golden Rosary".
Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa Lama (1204-1283), is often said to be the first person ever recognized and empowered as a tulku (Wylie: sprul sku), a reincarnated lama (bla ma)
The crown was last known to be located at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, the last home of the 16th Karmapa, although that location has been subject to some upheaval since 1993 causing some to worry as to whether or not it is still there. An inventory of items remaining at Rumtek is purported to be something the Indian government is going to undertake in the near future.
Karma Pakshi (ཀརྨ་པཀྵི་) (1204-1283)
Rangjung Dorje (རང་འབྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1284-1339)
Rolpe Dorje (རོལ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1340-1383)
Deshin Shekpa (དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་)(1384-1415)
Thongwa Donden (མཐོང་བ་དོན་ལྡན་) (1416-1453)
Chodrak Gyatso (ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་) (1454-1506)
Mikyo Dorje (མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1507-1554)
Wangchuk Dorje (དབང་ཕྱུག་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1556-1603)
Choying Dorje (ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1604-1674)
Yeshe Dorje (ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1676-1702)
Changchub Dorje (བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1703-1732)
Dudul Dorje (བདུད་འདུལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1733-1797)
Thekchok Dorje (ཐེག་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1798-1868)
Khakyab Dorje (མཁའ་ཁྱབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1871-1922)
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (རང་འབྱུང་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1924-1981)
Ogyen Trinley Dorje (ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།) (b. 1985) or Trinley Thaye Dorje (ཕྲིན་ལས་མཐའ་ཡས་རྡོ་རྗེ།)(b. 1983),
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