{"id":741,"date":"2014-09-29T15:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=741"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:27:33","slug":"pilgrimage-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/29\/pilgrimage-14\/","title":{"rendered":"14. Phagpa Lokeshvara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal, 16th\u201317th century; ivory; H. 5 1\/2 in.; The Newark Museum, Purchase 1973 Wallace M. Scudder Bequest Fund, 73.130, photo: Robert Goodbody, Courtesy of The Newark Museum.<\/p>\n<p>This tiny ivory sculpture from Nepal replicates a famous icon\u2014<b>Phagpa Lokeshvara<\/b>\u2014from the <b>Potala Palace<\/b> in Lhasa, Tibet. The Potala is a holy, venerated site of pilgrimage, particularly for Himalayan Buddhists. Many versions of the Potala icon were made in a variety of media. They all have three-lobed crowns, low-hanging sashes, and heavy earrings. Though missing from this sculpture, the right hand would have made the compassionate <b><i>varada mudra<\/i><\/b>. This replica\u2019s small size, combined with its rare, expensive medium, suggests that it was an object of personal devotion, which would have been incredibly precious to its owner. CF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal, 16th\u201317th century; ivory; H. 5 1\/2 in.; The Newark Museum, Purchase 1973 Wallace M. Scudder Bequest Fund, 73.130, photo: Robert Goodbody, Courtesy of The Newark Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69108],"tags":[69141],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrimage","tag-pilgrimage_1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}