Mahakala Mask

Size: (width 31, depth 25cm, height 13cm)

colour: dark red and black/yellow/blue

This wooden Mahakala mask is a handcrafted piece by a Nepalese carpenter. It is made from Himalayan wood and hand-painted by a Nepalese artist, a thangka painter. In any case, it is very beautiful in both materials and symbols.

Mahakala, meaning “Great Time” or “Great Black,” is the most powerful and important Protector Dharmapala – protectors of the Dharma – a type of deity, an emanation of the Buddha, who appears “wrathful” to eliminate the obstacles we encounter, both within and without, on our path to perfection.