Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.85

c7.85

The next illustration, Plate VI., is from a Nepalese copper-gilt statuette, representing Dorje-chang, the Lamaist counterpart of the Bodhisattva Vajrapâni,¹ "the Wielder of the Thunderbolt," which is also in the Calcutta Art Gallery. It is, like the last, built up of hammered work, but is later in date, probably not much more than a century old, representing the traditions of the Buddhist art of India which have survived in Nepal and Tibet to the present day. It has all the spirituality and true religious sentiment of Italian fourteenth and fifteenth-century art.