Stupa en bronze Tibet, XIIE-XIIIE siècle

la partie inférieure en forme de cloche reposant sur une double frise de pétales de lotus, le corps rehaussé de deux filets en relief, la partie supérieure, harmika, comprenant une terrasse quadrangulaire, surmontée des treize parasols de section conique, le dernier supportant un bouton de lotus, la base scellée

Stupas with a double lotus base, a cylinder with two simple string-course mouldings and a splayed superstructure supporting a spire surmounted by a disc an a closed lotus are associated with the bKa'-gdams-pa sect which revived Tibetan Buddhism after the 11th century, as noted by Wladimir Zwalf in Wladimir Zwalf (ed.), Buddhism. Art and Faith, London, 1985, p. 139.