This is a beautiful original Boddhisatva Manjushri Thangka painting from Nepal. I brought it back with me from Nepal on my last buying trip. It is such a special painting with incredible detail and colors. I know it will make a wonderful addition to someone's home.
Some information and history of Boddhisatva Manjushri:
Manjushri is known as the Bodhisattva of Wisdom and Knowledge and is the Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu god Brahma. With his flaming sword, Manjushri ensures that humans will gain knowledge and insight. He cleaves the clouds of ignorance with it, but also uses it in the morning to chase away the demons of the night, and so brings light into the darkness. This darkness has a double meaning, and is thus also spiritual darkness, ignorance.
Somebody or something’s right side is the male side, the left side is female.
According to legend, Manjushri came to Nepal from China over 2,000 years ago to worship the Adi Buddha. Surrounded by mountains, in the middle of the country, lay a large lake. In the middle of the lake bloomed a lotus on which the Adi Buddha, Svayambhu (the “self-Creating One”), manifested himself as a flame.
The bodhisattva smote the rocks with his sword near Chobar so that the water flowed away and the valley was able to be cultivated. The present-day Kathmandu Valley lies at the location of the former lake, as has been revealed geologically. He moved the lotus with the flame to a hill on the west side. Later, the stupa of Svayambhunath was erected over it. Manjushri is depicted in red, yellow, golden yellow, white, or black, and almost always sits in lotus position. He is eternally young and muscular, and has some twenty variations.
Manjushri is referred to as an emanation of both the dhyani Buddha Amitabha, who is also Avalokiteshvara’s spiritual father, and of Akshobhya. This dual origin can be traced back to the fierce form of Akshobhya, the dharmapala Yamantaka, who can take on a fiercer guise, namely Vajrabhairava, and then be an extremely frightening guise of Manjushri. An earthly incarnation of Manjushri is the great reformer Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa monastic order.
No noticeable flaws and the canvas is in very good shape.
Painting Size: 19.50" tall and 14.2" wide ( 49.5 cm tall and 36.1 cm wide ) including border. 17.50" Tall and 12.25" wide ( 44.5 cm tall and 31.1 cm wide ) excluding border.
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Some information and history of Boddhisatva Manjushri:
Manjushri is known as the Bodhisattva of Wisdom and Knowledge and is the Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu god Brahma. With his flaming sword, Manjushri ensures that humans will gain knowledge and insight. He cleaves the clouds of ignorance with it, but also uses it in the morning to chase away the demons of the night, and so brings light into the darkness. This darkness has a double meaning, and is thus also spiritual darkness, ignorance.
Somebody or something’s right side is the male side, the left side is female.
According to legend, Manjushri came to Nepal from China over 2,000 years ago to worship the Adi Buddha. Surrounded by mountains, in the middle of the country, lay a large lake. In the middle of the lake bloomed a lotus on which the Adi Buddha, Svayambhu (the “self-Creating One”), manifested himself as a flame.
The bodhisattva smote the rocks with his sword near Chobar so that the water flowed away and the valley was able to be cultivated. The present-day Kathmandu Valley lies at the location of the former lake, as has been revealed geologically. He moved the lotus with the flame to a hill on the west side. Later, the stupa of Svayambhunath was erected over it. Manjushri is depicted in red, yellow, golden yellow, white, or black, and almost always sits in lotus position. He is eternally young and muscular, and has some twenty variations.
Manjushri is referred to as an emanation of both the dhyani Buddha Amitabha, who is also Avalokiteshvara’s spiritual father, and of Akshobhya. This dual origin can be traced back to the fierce form of Akshobhya, the dharmapala Yamantaka, who can take on a fiercer guise, namely Vajrabhairava, and then be an extremely frightening guise of Manjushri. An earthly incarnation of Manjushri is the great reformer Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa monastic order.
No noticeable flaws and the canvas is in very good shape.
Painting Size: 19.50" tall and 14.2" wide ( 49.5 cm tall and 36.1 cm wide ) including border. 17.50" Tall and 12.25" wide ( 44.5 cm tall and 31.1 cm wide ) excluding border.
Half price shipping for all additional items for multiple orders.
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