Customer
who bid in our store will be given
one silk khata from Tibet for free.
Hope khata will bring you auspiciousness
and compassion.
A khata, is a traditional ceremonial
scarf used in Tibet . It symbolizes
goodwill, auspiciousness and compassion.
It is usually made of silk. Tibetan
khatas are usually white symbolising
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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.
Green
Tara:
Tara or
Arya Tara, also known as Jetsun Dolma, is
a female Bodhisattva typically associated
with Tibetan Buddhism. She is the "mother
of liberation", and represents the virtues
of success in work and achievements.
The word
Tara itself is derived from the root 'tri'
(to cross), hence the implied meaning:' the
one who enables living beings to cross the
Ocean of Existence and Suffering'. Her compassion
for living beings, her desire to save them
from suffering, is said to be even stronger
than a mother's love for her children.
The story
of Tara's origin, according to the Tara Tantra,
recounts that aeons ago she was born as a
king's daughter. A spiritual and compassionate
princess, she regularly gave offerings and
prayers to the ordained monks and nuns. She
thus developed great merit, and the monks
told her that, because of her spiritual attainments,
they would pray that she be reborn as a man
and spread Buddhist teachings. She responded
that there was no male and no female, that
nothing existed in reality, and that she wished
to remain in female form to serve other beings
until everyone reached enlightenment, hence
implying the shortfall in the monk's knowledge
in presuming only male preachers for the Buddhist
religion. Thus Tara might be considered one
of the earliest feminists.
Another
legend of Tara is that she was born from the
compassionate tears of Avalokiteshvara (The
Buddha of compassion)：
Homage!
Tara, swift, heroic! With a glance like flashing
lightning, born from a blooming lotus sprung
from the tears on
the face of the Lord of the World!"
... Chapter
III, Tara Tantra
The above
verse refers to the legend of Tara's origin.
Avalokiteshvara was looking down from his
heaven on the world of suffering beings, and
he wept to see that more and more of them
were in pain. From the tears streaming down
his face two Taras were born, a peaceful white
one from the left and a fierce green one from
the right. Tara is thus also often referred
to as Avalokiteshvara's consort.
In a historical
sense, Tara is associated with the two pious
and virtuous wives of Tibet's first great
religious king, Songsten Gambo (d. 649). White
Tara is associated with his wife from imperial
China, Wen Cheng, and Green Tara is identified
with Bhrkuti, his Nepalese wife.
Green
Tara (Sanskrit: "Syamatara", Tibetan:
"sGrol ma ljang gu") is the embodiment
of the activity of all Buddhas. She offers
us a hand to lift us up to a mountain of enlightenment
qualities. Tara belongs to the Karma family
of unobstructed compassionate activity.
Green
Tara is Tara's most dynamic manifestation.
Her color symbolizes youthful vigor and activity.
The Buddhist Lord of karma (action), Amoghasiddhi,
is also associated with the green color, thus
signifying that they belong to the same family.
This is a further affirmation of the perception
that Green Tara is a goddess of action.
Green Tara embodies the female wisdom activity
of the mind and is basically an emanation
of the air-element (Amoghasiddhi Buddha).
In some lower tantras of the fire-element
(Buddha Amithaba). She is also called 'Mother
of All Buddhas' and has many peaceful and
wrathful emanation forms. Results of the Green
Tara meditation are e.g. quick thinking and
according wisdom-reaction, generousity, magical
perfection, fearlessness and spontaneity to
reach a quick karmic completion. Her attributes
are lightblue upala-flowers (paeonias). She
is adorned with jewels and precious cloth,
sitting on a white moon-disk. Her right leg
is outside the lotus flower, which symbolizes
her continous activity, alertness and her
determination for quick active help. Her hands
are in the gesture of granting protection
and freeing from fears. Her short mantra is
OM TARE TUTARE TURE SVAHA.and her seed-syllable
is dTAM. She was a main meditation deity of
Ven. Kalu Rinpoche.
ORIGIN:
Lhasa,Tibet
PERIOD: 1800s
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