Silver Buddha Gau Vajrakilaya Commentary & Translator: Lopon Tenzin

Commentary & Translator: Lopon Tenzin Namdak

Weight: 11

Edited: Janine Schulz

and Dudjom Rinpoche

Presented here for the first time are Gendun Chopel's remarkable watercolors and pencil sketches

Silver Buddha Gau Vajrakilaya Commentary & Translator: Lopon TenzinA ga'o (pron. "gow") is an amulet or a prayer box usually containing written prayers or holy relics. Used in Tibetan Buddhism for centuries, gau are used to house items with sacred meaning as one travels from place to place. In larger sizes, they may actually contain small statues, and work much like a portable altar. This is a pendant gau, which can be worn like a necklace pendant. On the front is a small statue of Buddha. This of course opens up,