Abbot Lhachog Senge

Sculpture carved from ivory is not common in the Himalayas and Tibet. This image of Lhachog Sengge was likely carved in China as part of a larger set portraying a lineage of teachers associated with a particular philosophical or tantric system of practice.Lhachog Sengge was an important Buddhist teacher. However, he has become far more important to western scholarship because of the vast number of works of art that he sponsored and commissioned.