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WOEII
05-13-2014, 08:49 PM
Showed it to several experts and organizations, such as the Institute for Tibetan and Buddhistic Studies in Vienna, the Museum of Natural History Vienna and the V�lkerkunde Museum. The Tibetan letters and most of the symbols got deciphered, but no one ever heard of a skull like that. Except one Tibetan Khenpo (Monk-Professor), who said such skulls where carved a long time ago to take a curse off a family or to guide the soul of a mislead human being on the right path. The guy who sold it to the auction house where the antiques shop got it from said that one of his ancestors used to be a medical doctor in vienna. He travelled around Tibet and also gave medical treatment to an abbot of a buddhist monastery. That abbot gave the skull amongst other relics to that doctor as a reward for his services. Allegedly around 300 years old.

http://i.imgur.com/UC0XqOW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cEXQEsG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6Lywi4e.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BQ6whyp.jpg

WOEII
05-13-2014, 08:50 PM
http://i.imgur.com/GCN97YT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ig0Vojs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/k5iGzYd.jpg

WOEII
05-13-2014, 08:50 PM
http://i.imgur.com/WMh93n3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QOYW6jL.jpg
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