19/20th C Mongolian Wood with Bone Vignette

This charming handcrafted work depicts "The Elephant, the Monkey and the Kapinjala Bird," from The Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom.

As the story goes, when the tree grew, the individual animals could no longer selfishly feed themselves. As taught by Venerable Ribur Rinpoche, "The reason the four animals worked so harmoniously together, and the reason they were successful, is that none of them were primarily concerned with them self."..." It is a story explaining how there is no place for self-cherishing, but rather we need each other and we need to help each other."

Provenance
Tibetan Museum Society

Condition
Age appropriate wear including surface abrasions, chips, scratches and some loss to bone decoration.

Measurements
Approximately 6.75" height X 5" width