Here you can see finest Traditional Tibetan bronze mould Tsa Tsa Medicine Buddha aka Menla ("the Healer God") or Bhaisajyaguru. Big size: height — 9.5 cm, width — 7.3 cm.
This Buddha has many different names: Menla, "the Healer God" (Tib.: སྨན་ལྷ་; Wylie: sman lha), Bhaisajyaguru or Bhaisajya-guru-vaidūrya-prabhā-rāja, what literally means “King of Medicine Master and Lapis Lazuli Light”. Menla is known as the Buddha of healing and medicine in Mahāyāna Buddhism. He commonly named as “Medicine Buddha” and described as a doctor who cures all the sufferings using the medicine of his teachings.
Making of such clay images of Buddhas is
traditionally considered as a way to accumulate merit and do
purification. Tibetans say, the benefits of making tsa tsas are the same
as of making of Buddha statue.
We don't sell cheap clumsy moulds
which you can usually find at the market. Our forms are extremely fine
and detailed, so you can be sure — your Buddhas will come perfect.
We don't sell cheap clumsy moulds which you can usually find at the market. Our forms are extremely fine and detailed, so you can be sure — your Buddhas will come perfect.
Another important remark about
high quality alloy our molds made from. Some laid person may think the
alloy is not important. It is not true. There are a lot of low quality
molds on the market that made from cheap copper allowy mixed with zink
or iron and produced by powder metallurgy. They is easily fractured.
Beside from this, our molds are made from pure copper, that warrants long life and high detalisation of your Buddhas.
Accordingly some sources, Tsa Tsa originated from India and was introduced to Tibet at the end of Early Middle Ages. At the same time other sources point on its Bön (Tib.: བོན་, Wylie: bon) origination.
In this process small Buddha firurines are extruded through a metal mold. The material may vary depends on the purpose and tradition, but mostly is clay or cereal flour that can be mixed with certain precious substances, such as precious stones or metals, or ash of noble monks and high lamas.