"authenticity and ritual loss" Result
In the hushed galleries of a Manhattan auction house, a 15th-century Tibetan thangka depicting Green Tara recently sold for $4.2 million. The gavel’s fall echoed not just through the room, but across centuries of spiritual practice, across the Himala
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