Terracotta Image

Terracotta Image (tsha tsha)

• Small votive images moulded with clay, which has often been sanctified in other rites, including cremations, and fashioned in the form of small stūpas, or bas relief deities. These are frequently interred within a larger stūpa or kept by devotees as an object of veneration. GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)