Today, Tibetans are outnumbered by Han Chinese population in their own homeland, there are an estimated 7.5 million Chinese mostly living in kham and Amdo.
Furniture - Offering cabinets - torgams
This cabinet has a central dragon design floating in clouds above a sacred script with a cloud and water pattern below. To the right is prominently displayed a flaming wisdom sword, to the left, a yogi is pictured in his mountain retreat. $1308
Across the top of this cabinet is hung a flayed elephant and human, below are skull cup offerings and a number of animals typically offered to Mahakala. The lower panels display four jewel spitting mongoose. The entire cabinet is bordered by skulls and flames. The bottom panel features an array of peaceful offerings. $1040
This cabinet is purely dedicated to wrathful offerings. It is very well painted and has some very interesting detail. The two upper doors open conventionally hinging out and to the right and left but the lower two doors both hinge out and up. $2000
This cabinet features an image of Shou Lao, the Chinese god of longevity surrounded by many different animals and many different peaceful offerings. There is a seed syllable floating in the clouds to the upper right of Shou Lao. This door is not hinged and lifts up and completely out to be removed. $1038
The way that this cabinet has been painted, it seems almost to glow. Beautiful lotus flowers are seen growing out of water. The eight auspicious symbols(tashi tagye)are seen blooming forth from the lotus blossoms. $1120
This cabinet displays two dragon heads with body parts suspended from above and mountains, clouds, and water below. The bottom two panels include four snow lions holding jewels. $958
