![Green Tara [Medium]](Covers/23011.jpg)
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| Author(s) : Beer, Robert |
| Publishers Price : £120.00 |
| Wisdom Price : £120.00
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| Size : 495 x 406mm | | Publisher : Robert Beer Website |
Category : Newar Buddhist Art
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Synopsis:
This composition is based upon a famous late 13th century painting of Green Tara that is housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, which many art historians now attribute to the work of a brilliant Newar artist named Arniko. Green Tara sits in her traditional posture of royal-ease upon a white moon disc that rests on a multicoloured double-lotus above an ornate ‘elephant and lion’ (gaja-simha) throne. Two ornate pillars ascend from either side of her throne, which contain vignettes of the eight aspects of Tara as the liberator from the ‘eight great fears’ of: fire (anger); drowning (attachment); lions (pride); elephants (ignorance); imprisonment (greed); snakes (jealousy); demons (doubt), and thieves (false views). The red area inside these pillars and the cinquefoil arch above defines the shape of Tara’s outer aura, with a ‘six-fold enlightenment throne’ surrounding the patterned backrest of her inner aura. Tara has large breasts, a narrow waist, and a sweetly smiling face with two bow-shaped eyes. Her long black hair is bound-up into a bun behind her left shoulder, with curling strands hanging freely behind her right shoulder and back; and her halo is horseshoe-shaped and coloured like a rainbow. She is adorned with all manner of gold, jewel and pearl ornaments, and garments made from multicoloured silks. The Newar ‘eight auspicious symbols’ appear against the blue-black roundels of the background; along with the ‘Three Jewels’, which are represented by blue Akshobhya at the top centre (Buddha), yellow Prajnaparamita to the left (Dharma), and white Avalokiteshvara to the right (Sangha). |
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