Sitting Avalokiteshvara Sahasrabhuja with Buddhas - Tibetian Thangka Painting

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Avalokiteshvara Thangka Painting

An Avalokiteshvara Thangka Painting such as the one you see on this page would be a valuable addition to the home of any Buddha devotee. It is a skillfully, perfectly symmetrically executed Lokeshvara thangka painting in His traditional iconography. He is the glorious Lokeshvara sahastrabhuja (thousand-armed), the unmistakable aspect of His iconography.

Speaking of signature aspects, this is an image of the eleven-headed Lokeshvara with Buddha. All the five contemplative Buddhas, together with Green Tara, are seated on either side of the throne of the Lokeshvara Buddha. Along the lower edge of the painting is a panel depicting a Buddhist teacher with His students congregated before Him, and a series of Buddhist deities ranging from the serene to the wrathful. Along the upper edge is a series of miniature seated Buddha figures, below which are more seated figures of Buddhist teachers and students.

The red- and green-colored faces of Lokeshvara contrast sharply with the fair complexion of His numerous arms.

Tibetan Buddhist Thangka Painting Two Armed Mahakala in Cremation Ground

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Tibetan Buddhist Thangka Painting

Mahakala comes from the Sanskrit maha (great) and Kala (death or time) which translates that he is a deity beyond time. In Tibet, he is also called the Nagpo Chenpo, or the Great Black One, and is revered as guardian and protector. He is affiliated with the Hindu god Shiva. According to tradition, he dwells in the cremation grounds. In this thangka, he is depicted with two arms and two legs. On his sides is a vulture and a lion, colored black to symbolize darkness or death. Mahakala is surrounded by bright flames, representing the fire of dissolution.

As in this piece Thangka Painting Two Armed Mahakala, he is depicted with a wrathful and fierce expression that signals his might and power to overcome negativity along the path of enlightenment. His skin is blue that represents the eternal Dharmakaya. He sports an aflame beard and eyebrows to signal his transformative power to turn the five negativities into five pearls of wisdom. These negative afflictions are represented by the five skulls on his crown (attachment, aversion, ignorance, pride, and jealousy). Mahakala wears a necklace adorned with human heads. His three eyes represent the power to see in the past, present, and future and it can also stand for the three bodies of the Buddha. In his left hand is a skull cup representing the power to crush worldly attachment while the other hand is a blade with a Vajra handle which he could cut off ignorance. He stands on a lotus throne (on a corpse) with a sun disk (signify his illumination and enlightenment). On his waist is a tiger skin that represents purification while the snakeskin is his sign of purification from hate. He can also be seen trampling a being, not because of terrorizing them but as a sign that his power could go at lengths that can subdue the world if it means destroying obstacles to enlightenment. At the bottom are a black figure and a set of offerings to symbolize patrons of the deity.

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The Kalachakra Tantra (‘kala’ is Sanskrit for time; ‘chakra’, for cycle) expounded by Lord Buddha is a profound conception of the world as we know it. It comprises the outer, inner, and alternative Kalachakra’s. While the outer Kalachakra is the extrinsic locus of birth and death, the inner Kalachakra is the microcosm of sentience. The alternative Kalachakra pertains to the journey of Enlightenment/Buddhahood subject to the passage of kala.

Tibetan Thangka Painting - The Splendour Of The Kalachakra Mandala

The thangka that you see on this page is of the Kalachakra mandala. The majestic palace that you see on this page is a symbolic entity, a visualization aid. It has four gates, each oriented to the four quarters of the world, and is protected by blue, scarlet, and gold discoid, each standing for a spiritual ideal that one must attain in order to access the riches offered by the Kalachakra palace. Zoom in on the splendor of the sprawling gates of the palace - note the perfect symmetry and attention to detail with which the same have been painted.

The importance of mandalas in Vajrayana Buddhism is in the fact that they are visualization aids. Each of the five stories of the Kalachakra mandala palace leads the practitioner through the realms of body, expression, intellect, consciousness, and bliss to the resident Kalachakra deity. Practice empowers one to visualize and penetrate each and every corner of this all-important structure.