【Limited Edition】 Sudarshan Suwal Thangka Reprint - ART PRINT Series
Limited edition of 100 copies
- Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara
- Story of buddha
- Twenty-One Taras
- Chandra Mandala
- The original Thangka is painted with natural mineral pigments and 24K gold.
- Reference Size:
Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara 30x42cm (290gsm Graffiti diamond paper in frame)
Story of buddha 30x42cm (290gsm Graffiti diamond paper in frame)
Twenty-One Taras 30x42cm (290gsm Graffiti diamond paper in frame)
Chandra Mandala 27x39cm (painting canvas in frame)
Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara
Sahasrabhuja Avalokitesvara is a another form from of Avalokitesvara.
Before the time of Immeasurable Tribulation, Avalokitesvara was already a bodhisattva who had dedicated his life to bringing all sentient beings to enlightenment. After a long period of time, he discovered that no matter how much he worked, sentient beings in the six realms of samsara continued to suffer. He made a vow: "I should save all sentient beings. If I break this vow, may my body shatter into a thousand pieces!" After the Guanyin Bodhisattva experienced countless efforts and failures, his head broke into ten pieces and the body split into a thousand pieces. At this time, Amitabha Buddha appeared, and due to the strength of Guanyin's wish, transformed the thousands of pieces of Guanyin Bodhisattva into the incarnation of a thousand hands and a thousand eyes, fusing the ten pieces of his head to make eleven faces.
In the Sahasrabhuja Avalokitesvara, some arms have more prominent position and other remaining ones are distributed on either side to form a mandala - every hand have one eyes representing great compassion.
The eleventh head at the top is that of his master buddha, Amitabha.
The tenth head is terrifying and all others are placid.
The principal pair of arms are in the position of adoration while the uppermost hands hold the rosary and the full blown lotus.
These four hands thus represent the aspect of the bodhisattva knows as kharchheri.
The other four hands display the jewel and the gesture of charity on the right, and the pot and the bow arrow on the left.
Story of buddha
Two Thousand Five Hundred years ago Prince Siddhartha Gautama was born to King Suddhodan and Queen Mayadevi in Lumbini garden.
As soon as he was born he instantly walked seven steps and raised his right hand, pointed a finger to the sky and declared that he is the great leader of the whole Universe.
The King was told by a sage that if the Prince stays in the place as a householder, he would be the great emperor of the world, but that if he leaves the palace, he will become someone who is spiritual and capable of helping many beings.
King Suddhodana arranged for all luxuries of that time to be surrounding the prince, so that he would not have any interest.
However, despite these distractions, one day Siddartha Gautama desired to go out from the Place and asked Chandak the charioteer to take him out from the palace.
On the way, he saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse and a monk. Since that incident, the Prince was very upset and one night he decided to leave the palace and seek the solution to his mental unrest as to why beings have to undergo suffering.
One night he left the place with only charioteer Chandak into the forest, in order to find the answer to this spiritual quest for the benefit of all beings.
He practiced ascetic meditation very hard in the forest without eating single grain for several years but he couldn’t get any realization.
He understood that it would not lead him to enlightenment, so he gave up the practice of asceticism, he bathed in the river Niranjana and accepted rice pudding from a girl called Sujata, who found him unconscious from undereating.
After eating the food, he meditated under the bodhi tree. Mara the devil came to attack the Siddartha Gautama to destroy his meditation but Mara couldn’t do any harm to the Prince. Siddartha finally achieved enlightenment.
Twenty-One Taras
The Tibetan emphasis on authority and hierarchical order can seen in this 13th-century banner painting of deities favoured by the Kagyu Order.
At the top is Prajnaparamita, representing wisdom; next to her is the spiritual progenitor of Kagyu teachings, Vajradhara. The second register begins with Shakyamuni Buddha, followed by the five Tathagatas: Ratnasambhava, Akshobhya, Sarvavid Vairochana, and Amitabha and Amoghasiddhi in the last row. The major gestures or mudras found among Buddhist images are displayed by these figures.
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