Description
Guru Rinpoche & Constort t’hangka is hand painted and mounted to an elegant in brocade cloth frame.
Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava): Skt. Padmasambhava or Skt. Padmākara, is known by the name Tib. གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ Guru Rinpoche meaning ‘Precious Guru.’ or Tib. པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ Padmajungnay, meaning ‘Lotus Born,’ referring to his birth from a lotus in the land of Oddiyana. He is the founder of Tantric Buddhism (Vajrayana Buddhism) in Tibet and was invited to Tibet from India by the 37th king of Tibet, King Trisong Detsen, in the late 8th-century. He is considered the second Buddha of our time and if often depicted in three layers of robes with a lotus hat crown, holding a katvanga, a vajra, and skullcup filled with divine nectar. Guru Rinpoche has many forms and is said to have taken eight forms or manifestations representing different aspects of his activity to benefit beings.
T’hangka: Tib. ཐང་ཀ་ t’hang-ka, is an iconographic painting on canvas of buddhas, bodhisattvas, mandalas, and great practitioners. The images on a t’hangka are painted according to classical proportions and the gestures, implements, and colors of the painted subject have symbolic spiritual value related directly to visualization practice. The canvas is usually mounted onto a brocade cloth frame and hung on a wall. Any image of a buddha or holy being is considered sacred, thus t’hangka should be displayed in a dignified place. T’hangkas can be rolled up like a scroll for transportation.
