Simhavaktra’s Secret – One Hundred Flowers

In Tibetan thought, dakini guard and decode the secret texts called “treasure” (terma). This sculpture of Simhavaktra Dakini contains a different kind of hidden secret – but we did not discover it until 2013, when the Museum acquired a camera called a borescope that enabled us to peer inside.

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