Tibetan Gold and Silver Objects

Gold and silver wares are also traditional Tibetan crafts. Gold and silver wares in Tibet are generally divided into two categories:

Ornaments, such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, hair decorations, brooches, sheaths and snuff bottles.

Household utensils, such as wine pots, wine cups, spoons, chopsticks, bowls and plates. Some are made from pure gold and silver, while others are inlaid or coated with gold and silver .

Highly skilledt masters can make lively and vivid figures on gold and silver ware, including phoenixes, tigers, or lions.

Tsha Tsha

Tsha Tsha

Tsha Tsha are mini-statues of Buddha, stupas, or Buddhist scriptures done in relief images made out of a one-side mould or round stupas completed by two-side mould. They are mainly used to fill the inner shrines of bigger stupas, statues, or special shrines, and worshiped at the places like Tsha-khang, snow mountains and caves.

Tibetans make Tsha Tsha to accumulate Buddhist merit. They are also used as objects for dispelling illness or praying for good luck.

Tsha Tsha, a Tibetan transliteration of the Sanskrit word, is the clay votive tablet in Tibetan Buddhism, a typical representation of Tibetan Buddhist arts .

Traditional Tibetan Handicrafts

Visitors to Tibet are invariably impressed by the local people's power of imagination and boldness of their artistic expression, from architecture to clothing and decorations, from furniture to articles of daily use. Religious doctrines have not stifled their creativity. Rather, they have given wings to their imagination.

Chinese Wooden Mask