Old Tibetan Monastery Brocade Thangka:Buddha Shakyamuni

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We have run Tibetan artworks shop in Chamdo, Tibet since 1945,and shutdown before 1951 for some special reasons. We reinstated our store at 1978( The year of reformation of China). After 25 years day to day operation, We are now one of the biggest Tibetan antique & handicrafts shop in Khamba (Kangba) area. Shop is run by full-time Buddhists, devoted to practices of the Tibetan tradition.

There is no gainsaying the fact that the most distinctive and familiar form of Tibetan art is undoubtedly the thangka or thanka (literally a "rolled up image"). To understand and appreciate this unique style of painting, it is important to realize its essentially symbolic nature and that the figures populating its rich canvas have a meaning over and beyond their external forms.Mayadevi, Buddha's mother granting auspiciousness to an elaborately painted mandala; the terrible deity Mahakala vowing to protect the monastery of Nalanda; Padmasambhava consecrating the first Buddhist monastery of Tibet; a Nyingma refuge tree; Vajrayogini - the fearful sky-walker; White Tara with her all-embracing vision of compassion; a yellow-hued Padmasambhava; Gautam Buddha with scenes from his life ;Manjushri carrying aloft his sword of wisdom; the wheel of life;Mandala of Amitabha and a soft textured thangka of Maitreya the future Buddha.

Buddha Shakyamuni:

(Tibetan: sha kya tu pa, sang gye, English: the Enlightened One, Sage of the Shakya Clan)
Our teacher, the Sage of the Shakya clan, was born in India and underwent hundreds of austerities to bring his meditative experience and view to consummation. He was the first in this human world to attain buddhahood and the first promulgator of the tradition of the Buddhist teachings. He is the sublime being who opened our eyes with his enormous compassion and blessings.

The Buddha Shakyamuni, at the moment of enlightenment, invoked the earth as witness, as indicated by the fingers of his right hand, which spread downward in the bhumisparsha mudra, the "gesture of touching the earth." As the Buddhist Sutras relate, the sun and moon stood still, and all the creatures of the world came to offer obeisance to the Supreme One who had broken through the boundaries of egocentric existence. All Buddhist art celebrates this supreme moment and leads the viewer toward the Buddha's experience of selfless and unsurpassed enlightenment. The earliest forms of Buddhist art were semiabstract: bodhi-trees, wheels, stupas, and even the Buddha's stylized footprints served as supports for contemplating what was ultimately beyond words or forms. As the Buddha himself continually taught, it was not he who was continually revered but the possibility he presented. "Don't look to me," he said, "but to the enlightened state."

The first anthropomorphic representations of the Buddha are said to have been drawn on canvas from rays of golden light emanating from his body. Later Buddhist art pictured the Buddha in numerous manifestations, but always as an archetype of human potential, never as a historically identifiable person. All forms of the Buddha, however, are commonly shown seated on a lotus throne, a symbol of the mind's transcendent nature. As a lotus rises from the mud to bloom unsullied in open space, so does the mind rise through the discord of its own experience to blossom in the boundlessness of unconditional awareness.

Buddhism is not a static doctrine, but a creative expression of the interdependent nature of all things. It is a means by which we can discover in the heart of experience, not ourselves, but a luminous and unfolding mystery. Buddhism envisions the universe as a net of jewels, each facet of reality reflecting every other facet. Our calling is not to escape this web of interdependent origination, but to awaken to our indwelling Buddha nature, to see the world for what it is, and to become Buddhas in our own right - beings of infinite awareness and compassion.

"Be a light unto yourself," Buddha Shakyamuni declared at the end of his life. Become a Buddha, an awakened being, he urged, but never a blind follower of tradition. Indeed the image of the Buddha, transcending time and place, centers us in our innermost being.

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