Qing Dynasty Chinese Sino-Tibetan painted brocade mounts silk Thangka, wooden framed behind glass. Green Tara of the Sandalwood Forest (Tibetan: drol ma jang ku seng den ngag. English: the Green Saviors, or The One who Liberates). Sets within stripes of yellow and red color ribbon and blue metallic thread silk cloth frames (mounts) surrounding the tangka. Wooden framed behind glass.


This is a pilgrim painting made in either Lhasa or Shigatse for the many Nepalese visitors on religious pilgrimage. Tara is a completely enlightened buddha and having promised to appear in the form of a female bodhisattva and goddess for the benefit of all beings she especially protects from the eight fears. Practiced in all Schools of Tibetan Buddhism Tara is second in popularity only to Avalokiteshvara. Her practices are found in all classes of tantra - Nyingma and Sarma.



Three Deity Tara of the Sandalwood Forest (Sadhanasamucchaya #48, Thartse Panchen)


Dark-green in color, one face and two hands. The right hand is in the gesture of supreme generosity and the left holds with the thumb and ring finger a lily to the heart. Peaceful, smiling and youthful she is adorned with flowing silks of various colors and beautiful jewel ornaments, the hair as a crown. Seated in a posture with the right leg extended and the left drawn up. On a moon disc and multi-colored lotus seat she sits in the courtyard of a celestial palace in a sandalwood grove in the pure land of Potala on an island in the South Indian sea. On the right side is orange Marichi holding in the left hand a branch of the Ashoka tree. On the left is black Ekajati holding a skull cup in the left. Both hold in the right hands a fly-whisk; adorned with jewels and beautiful silk clothing, with the two legs placed equally in a standing manner. (Thartse Panchen Namka Chime).


On the upper floor of the palace sits buddha Amitabha with the two hands placed in meditation posture supporting a begging bowl. In the sky to the left sits Shri Devi (Tib.: pal lhamo), white, with one face and two hands holding an arrow in the right hand and a bowl in the left. She is the peaceful form of the wrathful goddess Shri Devi - Palden Lhamo. To the right is Magzor Gyalmo, dark blue and very wrathful, with one face and two hands; riding a mule. At each side heavenly beings reside in the clouds above.


At the bottom left is a human figure accepting gifts in an elaborate palace; on the right side a heavenly figure. To either side of the open doors of the pure land of Tara sit two figures, kneeling in prayer, one human and the other a naga.


Dimensions: 50-1/2" H x 32" W (Frame)

Provenance: Roswell, Georgia private collector

Over all in EXCELLENT condition.


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