This ritual object was gifted to a Tibetan patriarch as part of a set of tantric Buddhist art made in the imperial workshop of the Yongle emperor of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403-1425.

The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 5, 2003-January 11, 2004); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (February 8-May 9, 2004).

The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art

Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 1-July 10, 2005).

Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China

Focus: Tantra in Buddhist Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 15, 2013).

Focus: Tantra in Buddhist Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (10/5/2003 - 1/11/2004) and Columbus Museum of Art (2/8/2004 - 5/9/2004): "The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditaional Art," exh. cat. no. 108, p. 366-367.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (4/1/2005-7/10/2005):  "Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Fifteenth-Century China"

The Cleveland Museum of Art (05/05/2013 - 09/15/2013); "Focus:Tantra in Buddhist Art"

Ritual Flaying Knife

Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period

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Ritual Flaying Knife

Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period

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