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These powerful images depict some of the most popular figures of Tibetan Buddhist sacred art.
 Beautifully detailed and visually stunning, each print has been reproduced in full color offset lithography from the original paintings. This highly inspirational sacred art is an integral part of a remarkable spiritual tradition. The images serve as spiritual archetypes, evoking responses within our psyche and assisting us in the work of inner transformation. The figures in this Buddhist sacred art represent forces which possess a vital reality of their own. Each particular image came from the fully enlightened mind from which it originally emerged and conveys the timeless qualities of such a boundless consciousness.
Due to computer screen limitations the image quality on your screen cannot reflect the stunning brilliance and clarity of the actual images you will receive when ordering from us.
| Buddha Shakyamuni (BU)
$7.00
5x7 laminated |
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| Green Tara (GT2)
Tibet's "Mother of all beings," a compassionate protector.
$7.00
5x7 laminated |
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| Avalokiteshvara AV
Bodhisattva of compassion; saviour and protector
$7.00
5x7 laminated |
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| Padmasambhava PD3
"Guru Rinpoche", a patron saint
of Tibetan Buddhism.
$7.00
5x7 laminated |
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| Vajrasattva VS4
"Guru Rinpoche", a patron saint
of Tibetan Buddhism.
$7.00
5x7 laminated |
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| Vajrayogini VY
The Diamond Practitioner is the wisdom
of inseparable bliss and emptiness.
$7.00
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$10.00
8x10 in protective sleeve
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| Kalachakra Mantra KCM1
Ten Syllables of the Bodhisattva of compassion; saviour and protector.
$7.00
5x7 laminated |
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Lord Gautama the Buddha
Buddha was born Prince Gautauma in 550 B.C., in India. He was raised in ease and luxury within the palace compound, and the king never allowed him to see age, illness, poverty, or death--the suffering of the world. He married, and fathered a son.
But then he discovered suffering humanity, and immediately left his pampered life to become a penniless, wandering saddhu, a seeker of enlightenment. He tried the ascetic path of near-starvation, but finally settled on the "middle way," health and well-being without gluttony.
He sat under a bodhi tree for a long time, some say seven years, determined to achieve enlightenment. And he did!--not tempted by the seductions of the world which were offered to him by Maya, and not killed by the arrows shot at him, which turned into flowers.
Because he didn't think people would be able to receive his understanding, he nearly decided to become a simple hermit. But friends convinced him that the world needed his teaching, and so he developed the Four Noble Truths, the Eight-fold Path, and other teachings of infinite wisdom. He laid his body down when he was 80 years old.
His original teachings have branched into Tibetan Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and others, each with its own emphasis but all based on the Buddha's wisdom.
One of the greatest gifts of Buddhism is the Mahayana, or "great vehicle," teaching in which a person takes the Boddhisattva Vow, to work for the end of suffering for all sentient beings, as long as it takes. |
Lord Gautama the Buddha, one of the world's great wisdom teachers, was born a prince in 550 B.C. Protected in childhood from learning of disease, age and death, when he realized humanity's suffering he left his riches and crown behind and set out to understand life. From the time of his enlightenment he taught how detachment leads to freedom; right speech, right action, right livelihood and other aspects of the Eight-Fold Path, and much more. (More on Buddha below.)
