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Chakrasamvara Thangka Painting

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Chakrasamvara is one of the most popular deities in Tantric Buddhism in the Himalayan regions and Tibet after the 11th century. He can appear in several dozen different forms, from simple to complex and peaceful to wrathful, which makes it necessary to rely on the descriptive literature in the Sanskrit and Tibetan languages to identify his various forms. 

 Adding to the complexity, there are more than fifty different traditions of these forms in Tibetan Buddhism. The different forms are meant to emphasize different types of meditation practice that are suited for specific types of emotional and psychological characteristics in the tantric practitioners who take on these complex practices. 

"Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.” ~ Buddha

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White Tara Thangka

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White Tara, the Mother of All Buddhas, is known for her swiftness in responding to the prayers of those who invoke her name. White Tara meditation practice is said to grant health, long life, fearlessness, patience, and peace. Sadhanas of White Tara are often performed to prolong life and heal illness. It is said that because Arya Tara is the collective manifestation of the enlightened activity of all Buddhas, her sadhana is easily accomplished. 

“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world." ~ Buddha

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Medicine Buddha Art

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Sound Track: Medicine Buddha Mantra 

 Medicine Buddhas manifested in order to pacify the obstacles to the achievement of even temporary happiness, and especially the ultimate happiness of full enlightenment. Meditation on Medicine Buddha will help to enhance your mental and spiritual health. 

 "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance." ~ Buddha

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Chakrasamvara Thangka

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 Chakrasamvara's implements and ornaments celebrate the vanquishing of ego-driven spiritual paths. Chakrasamvara is the wheel of supreme bliss is an icon of the enlightened mind in which desire and wrath are transformed into rapturous compassions. He wears tiger skin wrapped around his dark-blue waist and elephant skin across his back. 

 He wears bone ornaments and a tiara of skulls. In his first two hands, he holds a bell and a vajra, symbolizing the dynamic interplay of emptiness and bliss. In his other hands, he holds a skull cup, a snare, the head of the Hindu god Brahma, a Tantric staff (khatvanga), a sword, a flaying knife, a trident, and a drum. He is surrounded by a halo of flames and stands on a sun disc trampling on the mundane passions symbolized by the Hindu god Bhairava and his consort, Kalaratri.

Chakrasamvara's blissful radiance converts timid responses to reality into a radical engagement. When desire no longer clings to its object, it awakens to its primordial nature, which no longer divides into self and other. This blissful awareness encompasses all life and emotions, combusting in the liberating vision of selfless ecstasy.

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." ~ Buddha

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chakrasamvara painting

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Chakrasamvara’s implements and ornaments celebrate the vanquishing of ego-driven spiritual paths. Chakrasamvara is the wheel of supreme bliss is an icon of the enlightened mind in which desire and wrath are transformed into rapturous compassion. He wears tiger skin wrapped around his dark–blue waist and elephant skin across his back. 

 He wears bone ornaments and a tiara of skulls. In his first two hands, he holds a bell and a vajra, symbolizing the dynamic interplay of emptiness and bliss. In his other hands, he holds a skull cup, a snare, the head of the Hindu god Brahma, a Tantric staff (khatvanga), a sword, a flaying knife, a trident, and a drum.

"If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart." ~ Buddha 

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White Tara Mantra

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Sound Track: White Tara Mantra

The White Tara mantra has a number of variations, but a common one in its Sanskrit form is: 

 OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA AYUH PUNYA JNANA PUSTIME KURU SVAHA. 

 The Tibetan way to say the mantra is this: 

 OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA AYUR PUNE GYANA PUNTIN KURU SOHA 

 White Tara is also known as Sita Tara. White Tara is the protective, helpful and comforting mother who shows limitless kindness, generosity, and protection towards those who are tossed in the ocean of suffering, and if we recite her mantra and make a connection to her, we draw closer to developing her enlightened qualities in ourselves. 

"Silence is sometimes the best answer." ~ Dalai Lama 

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Green Tara Paubha

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Green Tara is known as the Swift One, due to her immediate response to those who request her aid. Furthermore, she is known as the great liberator, specializing in overcoming obstacles in whatever form they manifest in our lives. No deity in the Buddhist pantheon is more popular than Tara. She is especially known for her power to overcome the most difficult situations, giving protection against dangers and all kinds of fear. 

"Child of your lineage! As you are striving for the sake of sentient beings in the Land of Snows, intercede in their suffering, and I shall be your companion in this endeavor!" ~The Clear Mirror 

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Shakyamuni Buddha Thangka

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Shakyamuni Buddha is known as Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, the son of king Suddhodana and queen Mayadevi, was born in 563 B.C in Lumbini, Nepal. He attained “Boddhi” or enlightenment after spending 6 years fasting and in meditation, and was soon thereafter called “Buddha” as he was “the enlightened one”. He attained Samadhi or Nirvana at the age of 80 in a place called Kusinigara.

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." ~ Buddha 

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Sita Tara Paubha

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Sound Track: Buddhist Mantra 

 White Tara is also known as Sita Tara. She is an emanation of  Avalokiteshvara and in the Nepali Transcendent Buddha tradition is the consort of Vairochana, the central Transcendent Buddha. Her inner virtue of loving compassion is magnified by the simplicity of her presentation.

White Tara is an important Vajrayana Buddhist figure since she embodies the principle of loving-kindness, which is the central quality in the altruistic Bodhisattva presented through Mahayana Buddhism. 

 “As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.” ~ Buddha 

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Manjushree Thangka Painting

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Sound Track: Manjushri Mantra

Manjushri is a Bodhisattva who represents Transcendent Wisdom also called Yidam in  Tibetan Buddhism. Along with Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani, he is one of a trinity of family protectors. The family that Manjushri protects is known as the Tathagata family, which includes the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, as well as Vairochana, the central figure in the Five Buddha Mandala. He is well known as Gent Glory.

"You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind." ~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche 

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Shakyamuni Buddha Painting

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Sound Track: Peaceful Music

The ancient Sanskrit word ‘Buddha’ means ‘having become awoken ‘ in the sense of having attained ‘supreme awareness’. It is closely related to the term ‘Bodhi’ which refers to awareness.

The serene & sublime image of Gautama embodies a condition of compassionate understanding, of an awoken illuminated mind.

"Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves." ~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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White Tara – Meditation Deity Thangka

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Sound Track: Mantra of White Tara

The female Buddha White Tara is one of the main longevity deities in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. 

 Her meditation practice can be done to prolong your life and to overcome illnesses and other life-threatening obstacles. You can also offer an image of White Tara to a baby to wish that this newly born may have a long life ahead.

“Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying 

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21 Taras Thangka

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Sound Track: Green Tara Mantra 

Tara has 21 forms that perform 4 different activities such as pacification, increasing the positive qualities, overpowering external forces, and wrath with respect for 4 colors. 

 - White Color represents the Enlightened activity of pacifying, for example overcoming sickness, causes of untimely death, and obstacles to success in one's life. 

 - Yellow color represents an increase in the positive qualities helpful to a long life, peace, happiness, and success. 

 - Red color represents the additional power to overcome external forces that cannot be tamed through the first two activities, for example, removing obstacles to sickness, untimely death, etc.

 Black color represents complete Power or wrath, which involves using forceful methods for accomplishing activities for Enlightened purposes that cannot be accomplished through other means. 

“ Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” ~ Dalai Lama 

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Manjushree Buddhist Thangka

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Sound Track: Manjushri Mantra by Tibetan Monks

Manjushri is one of the eight great bodhisattvas who were the closest disciples of the Buddha. He is the embodiment of the knowledge and wisdom of all the buddhas, traditionally depicted with a sword in his right and a text in his left hand. 

 "There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires." ~ Buddha 

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Chenrezig Thangka

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Sound Track: Chenrezig Mantra by Tibetan Monks

Chenrezig is a God of compassion who refrains from entering the blissful state of nirvana to remain here so that he can save the living being of the earth. Chengriz is depicted in a peaceful appearance with white body color. He has one face, and 4 hands.

The first pair of hands placed at the heart holds a precious wishing jewel. The first left upraised at the side holds a mala of prayer beads. The left also upraised holds a lotus blossom delicately between the fingers. His black hair is piled on the top of the head with some falling loose across the shoulders. He is adorned with a crown of gold and jewels, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and anklets, he wears a krishnasara deerskin across the left shoulder.

His shoulder is wrapped with a silk scarf and the lower body is attired in a silk skirt. The legs are folded in vajra posture atop a moon disc and multi-colored lotus seat surrounded by a large red nimbus and orange areola of radiant light. Pink lotus flowers and green foliage appear to adorn the edges. 

The ground in front is strewn with heaps of wishing gems, gold ornaments, elephant tusks, cymbals, a shell with scented water, a lamp, and a flower vase.

“To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Atisha Tradition 21 Taras Thangka

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Sound Track: 21 Taras Mantra 

Atisha Tradition 21 Taras Thangka is handpainted by Master Thangka artist from Kahmandu Nepal. It is handpainted on treated cotton canvas by using mixed stone colors and golden detailing. 

Amitabha Buddha is at the top center of the thangka. Green Tara is depicted in the center of the Thangka following the Atisha Tradition of drawing the 21 Taras Thangka. The 21 Taras according to the tradition of Atisha is one of five 21 Tara Sytems current in Tibetan Buddhism. 

All 21 Taras are depicted with a single face and two arms, in a sitting posture in the painting. Each Tara is holding a vase in the outstretched right hand and the color of the vase is the same as the color of the Tara. Red Tara is depicted as slightly fierce than white tara in the painting. 

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” ~ Buddha 

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Vasudhara Thangka Painting

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Sound Track: Vasudhara mantra by Tibetan Monk 

Vasudhara is a popular Newari goddess of fertility and prosperity, she is a consort of the wealth-god Jambhala.

Vasudhara, whose name means "stream of gems" in Sanskrit, is the Buddhist bodhisattva of wealth, prosperity, and abundance.

She is popular in many Buddhist countries and is a subject in Buddhist legends and art. Originally she is an Indian bodhisattva, her popularity has spread to southern Buddhist countries.

Her popularity, however, peaks in Nepal where she has a strong following among the Buddhist Newars of the Kathmandu Valley and is thus a central figure in Newar Buddhism. She is named Shiskar Apa in Lahul and Spiti. She is related to the Hindu great goddess Lakshmi, and her Sanskrit name Vasundhara indicates she is the source of the eight "bountiful Vasus."

Therefore, according to the epic Mahabharat, she is the bounty that is the waters of the river Ganges-the goddess, Ganga whose origin is the snows of the Himalayas. In Buddhist art, Vasudhara has a consistent iconography. She can easily be identified as a bodhisattva by the elaborate headdress and the extensive amount of jewelry she wears.

Her skin has a golden hue in bronze and painted images. This color is associated with precious metals and symbolizes opulence, fertility, and generosity in Buddhist iconography. Vasudhara is typically seated on a lotus flower base in the Lalita asana, or royal pose, with one foot, tucked in towards her and the other hanging off the flower base but resting on a small treasure. She can, however, also be represented in a standing position.

When standing, Vasudhara has a full vase representing abundance underneath each foot. Despite this consistency in her representations, the number of her arms may differ from image to image. In visual representations, Vasudhara can have as few as two arms and as many as six. The two-armed representations are more common in Tibetan art and Indian art, while six-armed representations are almost exclusive to Nepalese art. 

"Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful." ~ Buddha 

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