Two pencil drawings: at top, man walks on all fours toward base of deity statue; At bottom, man lies supine upon bed of nails

Going on Pilgrimage on All Fours and An Ascetic Sleeping on the Points of a Thousand Wooden Spikes

Location
India

Date
ca. 1940

Creator
Gendun Chopel (Tibetan, 1903–1951)

Material
watercolor

Dimensions
11¼ × 7⅞ in. (28.6 × 19.9 cm)

Collection
Private collection

Photo Credit
image after Xiong Wenbin and Zhang Chunyan, eds. 2012. 2012 nian de zhui xun : Xizang wen hua bo wu guan Gendunqunpei sheng ping xue shu zhan 2012 年的追寻 : 西藏文化博物馆根敦群培生平学术展. Beijing: Zhongguo Zang xue chu ban she; photograph courtesy Latse Library

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