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  Arakan-style Bronze Oil Lamp

 

Myanmar

A Burmese Arakan-style bronze oil lamp (fig.) depicting Dipankhara (fig.), who pledged to Sumedha (fig.), former incarnation of Siddhartha Gautama, that the latter would one day become a buddha.