CITIPATI MASK

Unknown Tribe - Himalayas - Asia

Dimensions:Height 8.75", Width 6.25 Formerly from a French Collection
AS38.....CITIPATI MASK
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The Citipati are one of the seventy-five forms of Mahakala and are visible reminders of the impermanence of everything worldly. Their mouths are parted in a large grin, showing all their teeth. Their name means "lord of the graveyard".The dance, symbolic of the cycle of life and death, is performed in the monastery cemetery once in summer and once in winter by monks wearing masks
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