Colorful butter sculpture depicting wrathful deity with blue skin and crown of skulls riding atop horse

Palden Lhamo, torma butter sculpture

Location
Labrang Monastery, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (Gansu Province, China)

Date
2014

Material
flour, butter, natural pigments

Dimensions
height of figure approx. 12 in. (30.5 cm)

Photo Credit
photograph by Sandar Aung

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