Description
This Red Tara t’hangka is hand-painted and mounted on brocade cloth frame.
Red Tara: Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ་དམར་མོ་ Drolma Marmo, belongs to the padma (lotus) family of deities who are associated with enlightened speech and the color red. Tara is ruby red, seated wearing jeweled ornaments, holding a longevity vase and a lotus on which rests a bow and arrow made of flowers. Red Tara has the magnetizing qualities to swiftly bring beings to the state of enlightenment. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche practiced and propagated the Red Tara practice revealed by Apong Terton (20th Century). This Apong Terton Red Tara practice is upheld by many sanghas in the West.
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.
