A Tibetan couple were arrested for trying to sell a 900 year-old Buddhist statue. Apparently Ngawang Tsundue and a femal accomplice swiped the idol of a Buddhist saint named Terton Pema Lingpa from his former father-in-law. who is the "Head Cheepa (Lama) of Sangyeling Gompa, a monastery in Tawang".
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=39133&article=Two+arrested+in+Majnu+ka+tilla+for+stealing+900-year-old+ancient+idol
It is sad that family strife and interactive dischord can emanate such terrible malalocation of misguided sculpture resource. Plainly iconoclasm never reached TIbet so they were thus spared the purge of art. One should trust the call of God will make itself heard to them in the dark night of captivity.
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=39133&article=Two+arrested+in+Majnu+ka+tilla+for+stealing+900-year-old+ancient+idol
It is sad that family strife and interactive dischord can emanate such terrible malalocation of misguided sculpture resource. Plainly iconoclasm never reached TIbet so they were thus spared the purge of art. One should trust the call of God will make itself heard to them in the dark night of captivity.
