Thanka Green Tara

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Thanka Green Tara

Hand painted on canvas

Size: approx. 124 x 82 cm

Inner image size: approx. 63.5 x 43.5 cm

A (Buddhist) thangka, loosely translated “something rollable”, or something “to roll”, is one painted with opaque colors
Cotton or silk fabric, often with elaborate bindings and sub-weaves.
As a rule, wooden struts are processed at the upper and lower edge, often with decorative buttons and two long ribbons.
Thangkas are used for Buddhist meditation. At home, when parading, but also in temples and processions.
Deities, lamas, buddhas and bodhisattvas are usually depicted,
also the wheel of life or other symbols of Buddhism.

Green Tara is considered the spiritual companion of Amogasiddhi, the Dhyani Buddha. She is depicted similarly to White Tara. One can only see the difference in her left hand, which holds a half-closed lotus or water lily flower with long, often blue, petals. In the Lamaist tradition, Tara is incarnated in all good women.

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