Materials:

Himalayan crystal

Gold-plated copper

Red & green beryl gems

Dimensions & Weight:

Length: 8 inches

Width: 3.5 inches

Height: 5.3 inches

Weight: 1.95 kilograms

Shipping Origin: Kathmandu, Nepal

Description:

This extraordinary elephant is carved from a single piece of Himalayan quartz crystal and expertly decorated with filigreed, gold-plated copper that is inlaid with red and green beryl gemstones.

Elephants are traditionally considered a symbol of good luck, wisdom, fertility, and protection. Placing the image of the elephant with its trunk raised in your home is thought to attract good fortune, as it showers its positive energy out of the trunk and into all surrounding beings and spaces.

In Buddhism, the elephant is a symbol of mental strength. At the beginning of one’s practice, the uncontrolled mind is symbolized by a gray elephant who can run wild at any moment and destroy everything in its way. After practicing dharma and taming one’s mind, the mind – which is now brought under control – is symbolized by a white elephant strong and powerful, that can be directed wherever one wishes and destroy all obstacles in its way.

In Buddhist iconography we find the elephant-faced deity Gangpati or Ganesh as an emanation of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. The elephant also appears as a guardian of temples and of Buddha himself.