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Amitabha Buddha Painting

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Amitaba or Amitabha is one of the five Meditation Buddhas in Nepal they are commonly worshiped as Dhyani Buddha or Pancha Buddha. Amitabha Buddha is the main Buddha from the family of Lotus in the direction west of red, which purifies the karma of desire. The animal is the peacock and its element is fire, their household is the perception. It represents the wisdom of discriminative Buddhas. His syllable is sacred in Tibetan Hri. His consort is Mamaki, which represents the ownership of which is solid.

Amitaba has a special commitment to the lighting of all beings and is known as the Buddha of the transfer of consciousness at the time of death, the passage through the bardo of death, and that the purpose of worship reach the infinite lighting or the Pure Land of Buddha, where the enlightenment is achieved.

In Tibet is known as Od Pagme and Japan by Amitabha Niorai and the mantra of the Amitabha Buddha in Japan known as nenbutsu as contraction of Namo Amitabha Butsu. It is believed that the repetition of nenbutsu leads to rebirth in the Pure Land of Amitaba. The devotion to the rebirth in the Pure Land of Amitaba originated in Japan Pure Land Buddhism.

In Vajrayana Buddhism virtually all the gods represented in red belong to the family and Lotus in general, in his iconography it have a small image of Buddha Amitabha on their heads, indicating they are an emanation regarding Amitabha.

Buddha Life

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Buddha Life Thangka

Living Buddha Thangka illustrates the life of Buddha. All the historic part of the life of Buddha is represented visually in the life of Buddha Thangka painting. From the day he was born on his right arm pit mothers as it was based on his arm branch of a large tree in the garden of Lumbini. Children trapped in the palace compounds, freeing him evil and the ability to see and live any kind of pain or suffering to the outside world. The day he ventured beyond the walls of the castle and came through pain, pain, death and suffering - he saw beggar, a cripple, a body and a holy man - who has deeply affected Prince, awakening a deep desire to find the body of suffering and thus alleviate it. In the evening, he escaped the walls of the palace, where all were asleep and began life wandering ascetic. His years of fasting, meditation and time spent in painful search to find a way to end the suffering. The full moon night when he had a direct realization of Nirvana (eternal peace), which has transformed a prince Buddha. The time he spent guiding people towards nirvana, love and friendship. On the day he left this world at the age of eighty, after exhausting his body for the benefit of all beings sentiment. All are presented in the living Buddha Thangka Painting.

Buddha Mandala

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Five Mandala Thangka Painting

A Mandala painting is a traditional and spiritual teaching of Buddhists. Basically it is a tool to heal and also an artwork that is created after coloring sand. The process of Mandala is hand-sketched design on a plane surface or on a platform after having a ritual prayer and blessing from a deity. The sketched design on the sand surface is colored as per individual’s choice. In the process of drawing these painting, sand is poured by the monks through a metallic funnel to create this artwork. It is necessary that sand be evenly dropped over the flat surface. This is done with the help of funnel and meditations say dhyana.

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Product Material	:	Mandala Paintings and Thangka Paintings are painted with real Gold, silver, stone and vegetable colors.
Weight	:	The hand painted Tibetan painting gets 300 grams when ready for shipment.
Size	:	The Five Mandala Thangka Painting is 32 CM in length and 25 CM in Breadth.
Made	:	All our Thangka paintings and Mandala arts are painted by experience artists of Nepal.
Availability	:	Thangka and Mandala Paintings are shipped via DHL reaching you in 4-5 working days.
Wholesalers	:	All our Thangka paintings and Mandala Paintings are also for bulk purchase, please visit our wholesale section or send us an email.
Note	:	Please note that the actual colors of this Thangka Painting or Mandala Painting art may vary due to differences in monitor color depth and make. The color shown is as close as possible to the actual colors of the Thanka Painting. The shape of this Thanka Painting may not look perfect rectangle in the picture but in real; the inner dimension of every Thanka Painting is perfectly rectangle since they are precisely measured while painting. Please email us for a high resolution image.

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Buddha Thangka Painting

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Buddha Thangka Paintings

In general, “Buddha” means someone who has awakened from the depth of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha is a person who is completely free of all its defects and mental barriers. We have seen many people have become Buddha in the past, and many people hope to see many become Buddha in the coming days. There is nothing that Buddha does not know. Because he was awake from the sleep of ignorance and has removed all obstructions his mind, he knows all past, present and future, directly and simultaneously. In addition, Buddha has a great compassion which is completely impartial, embracing all living beings without discrimination.

It benefits all living beings without exception from various forms throughout the universe, and by bestowing his blessings on their minds. Thanks to receive blessings of the Buddha, all, even the smallest animals, sometimes develop peaceful and virtuous states of mind. Ultimately, through a reunion emanation of Buddha in the form of a spiritual guide, everyone will have the opportunity to enter the path of liberation and enlightenment. As the great Indian Buddhist scholar Nagarjuna said, there is no one who has not received the help of Buddha.

It is impossible to describe all the good qualities of a Buddha. A Buddha of compassion, wisdom and power are completely beyond conception. With nothing more to hide his mind, he sees all phenomena throughout the universe as clearly he sees a jewel in the palm of his hand. Thanks to the strength of his compassion, a Buddha spontaneously does whatever is conducive to others. He did not need to consider what is the best way to help living beings - he naturally and effortlessly into action in the most advantageous. Just as the sun does not need to motivate himself to shine the light and heat, but simply because light and heat are its very nature, so that Buddha does not need to motivate him - even the benefit of others, but simply because the recipient is very nature.

Chenrezig Thangka Painting

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The mantra of Tchenrézi, Chenrezi “OM MANI PADME HUM”

Tchenrézi is a form of avalokiteshwara, also known as the Buddha of Compassion 4 or 6 Syllable armed Avalokiteshvara.

Chenrezig Thangka Painting

Chenrezi is the form of Buddha knows the enlightened spirit of goodness and compassion.

Green Tara Thangka

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The word is etymologically Tara rooted in the word ’star’, but the most popular meaning of “Tara” is that it saves “, or” saviouress. “As a Buddhist deity popular in the Mahayana tradition - particularly in Tibet - Green Tara, Green is compassionate, wise, and quick action. If you need Tara and recites his mantra, it is said that Tara will not delay to help. Mythologically, Tara Green was born when the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara cried seeing all the suffering in the Universe. He cried to the point where a pond was born with her tears. On this pond grew a lotus flower blue, and on this flower seems like a beautiful woman. His color is translucent green light with a great energy. It has a deep blue lotus, a symbol of limits and gives refuge. The color green is said to symbolize his quick action, and also its role as a god of forests. Tara is usually depicted with his right leg extended, ready to come into action, while his left leg is bent in the Buddhist contemplative position. The right leg symbolizes compassion and wisdom left leg. They are two virtues which, when developed at the same time, lead to enlightenment.

Goddess Green Tara Painting

Kalachakra Mandala

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Kalachakra Mandala Thangka Painting

Everything in this mandala is a symbolic representation of one aspect of the Kalachakra divinity and the divinity of the universe. There are 722 deities in the mandala to symbolize the various manifestations of aspects of consciousness and reality, this is the ultimate wisdom of the Kalachakra deity. Of understand and interpret all the symbols in the mandala would be like read the Kalachakra, which contains a wide range of lessons from cosmology epistemology to psychology. The Kalachakra Tantra is interpreted at three levels referred to external, internal and others. Outside compliance with the laws of time and space of this physical world and, therefore, deals with astronomy, astrology and mathematics. The internal components and structure of the human body, including its energy system. The alternative is the doctrine, path and the fruit of meditation and its divinity circular mandala residence. Kalachakra divinity lies in the center of the mandala. His palace is composed of our mandala, in another body of the mandala, the mandala on the floor, that of mind and heart, wisdom and great happiness. The palace is divided into four quadrants each with walls, doors, and a centre. The colors are the representations of standard elements and mental. Black, east, is associated with the element of wind. The south is red, its elements is fire. West is yellow, associated with the element earth, and the north is white, representing the water. The place of divinity 722 building is on the first concentric circles, including the first which represents the earth. The other environments, representing water, fire, wind, space and expand the consciousness beyond the wall of the building. Outside circles, a representation of the cosmos, is a source of Tibetan astrology. The ten wrathful deities residing in one of concentric circles outside the mandala serve as protectors.

The Kalachakra sand mandala is dedicated to peace and physical balance, both for individuals and for the world, thanks to the attention of divinity minutes of humans, animals and floral forms, abstract icons, and Sanskrit syllables that includes the design of Mandala. Although represented here on a flat surface, the mandala is actually in three dimensions, as a five-storey “remains divine,” whose centre is the Kalachakra deity been manifest of the Enlightenment. A person who simply sees this mandala many feel peace on many levels. According to the Dalai Lama, the Kalachakra deity create a favourable climate, reduce tension and violence in the world. “It ‘a way to plant a seed, and seeds karma effect. There is no need to be present at the Kalachakra ceremony to receive its benefits,” he says.

Kubera Thangka Painting

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Kubera or Kuber is the god of wealth. He reigns over the subterranean riches of the Earth, such as diamonds, pearls, gold, silver, precious stones and anything that the Earth provides in terms of wealth. One guardian deities of the eight directions Dikpala, Kubera governs the North - lush and rich versus South, which is the subject of Yama, death, and fire. He is represented as a character replete, usually sitting on pots filled with treasures. Sometimes, it takes the form of a white elephant. Kuber in Hindu mythology is called “dhanpati” meaning wealthy.

Mandala Paintings

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The mandala symbolism as the centre of the world shapes not only the cities, the temples and royal palaces but also the most modest human habitation. The address of primitive peoples is commonly built from a center post and put its people in contact with the three levels of existence: lower, middle and top. The housing for it is not just a shelter, but the creation of the world that he, imitating the gestures divine, is to maintain and renew. Thus, the mandala represents for the man inside his shelter where allows a reunion with God. A good example of typical Brazilian mandala, from the architecture, is the floor, the Cathedral of Brasilia.

In terms of visual arts, the mandala is always great profusion of color and represents an object or picture that helps in concentration to reach other levels of contemplation. There is a symbolism involved and a wide variety of designs depending on the origin.

Originally created in chalk, the mandalas are a sacred space of meditation. Currently are made with sand from India. Normally divided into four sections, aims to be an exercise in meditation and contemplation. The purpose of art in the Tibetan Buddhist culture is to strengthen the Four Noble Truths. The mandalas are considered important for the preparation of primers to Buddhism in order to prepare them for the study of the meaning of enlightenment.

The process of building a mandala is a form of meditation constant. It is a very slow process, with meticulous movements. The great benefit for people who contemplate from the mandala is the fact that the imagined mentally constructed a detailed three-dimensional structure.

In the process of building a madala, art becomes a religious ceremony and religion will be transformed into art. When a mandala is completed it represents itself as an extremely colorful construction. After the cycle is cut and the sand is usually deposited in water. Only one party is saved and offered to participants.

A monk begins the destruction circular drawing lines with his finger, then spread sand and put in an urn. When the sand is all collected, they erase the lines that served to guide the construction and depose the sand in the waters of the river.

Manjushree Thangka

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Manjushree Thanka Painting

Manjushree in Tibetan is known as Djampelyang meaning “Sweet and glorious melody”. He personifies the Knowledge, as well as the absolute truth that the world on which we operate. It is therefore particularly revered by those who engage in the study. Manjushri represents the Knowledge and Wisdom of God.

His attributes are the sword, a double-edged weapon of knowledge that cut the sails of ignorance, and the sacred text of the Prajnaparamita a book containing the teachings of Buddha on the ultimate nature of things.

Ignorance which is mainly question here is the true nature of things, blindness that prevents us both to distinguish what is real from what is not and to understand the interrelationships that govern any event. Ignorance is still compared to the darkness which is why the tip of the sword of Manjushri is surrounded by a flame whose light dispels the darkness. The complete obliteration of the veil of ignorance is the state of Buddha, with the “omniscience”.

Manjushri Thangka Painting

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Manjushri is the conscience of bodhisattva perceptive in Buddhism. Disciple of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni he represents a grand wisdom, intelligence and achievement, and is one of the most popular bodhisattvas after Avalokiteshvara. Manjushri is one of Eight Bodhisattvas and the Wisdom of the Japanese Thirteen Buddhas. In Tibetan Buddhism, he is often represented by a trinity with Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani. Manjushri is mentioned in many of the Tibetan Buddhist sutras particularly the Prajnaparamita Sutra. In Tibetan Buddhism Manjushri is a deity or meditational Tantric Yidam and Buddha fully illuminated.

Mantra of Manjushri

“Om Ah Pa Ra Tsa In Dhih”

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The valley of Kathmandu was once a pond. It is believed that Manjusri cut a ravine in a place called Chobar to create a habitable earth.

Milarepa Thangka

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Milarepa was a Great spiritual master of Tibet whose route was atypical. First formed bon practices for the exercise of black magic and avenge his family at the request of his mother. Milarepa sought Buddhist teaching with a great Tibetan master, Marpa (1012-1096). After being tested by his master, the latter provided Milarapa lessons later he retired to practice meditation in the high mountains where he reached the Awakening. Milarepa is also famous for having composed “one hundred thousand songs.” At the end of his life, he transmitted his teachings and had several disciples.

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