Red Rakta Avalokiteshvara Tibetan Buddhist Vajradharma Votive Painting Thangka

Charming ancient Buddhist miniature votive painting in a modern frame of good quality.

One of the most recognizable mantras in the world isom mani padme hum. While many know it, not all realize that it is associated with the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who has countless forms, both peaceful and wrathful, red and white, with thousands of arms, or maybe just two. Depicted here is the red Avalokiteshvara.
Rakta Avalokiteshvara is a bodhisattva who has made a vow to remain in the cycle of rebirth through countless lifetimes to work for the benefit of other beings. Bodhisattvas display determination and self-sacrifice, vowing not to pass into the blissful state of Nirvana until all sentient beings are free and accumulating wisdom and merit in order to become buddhas. Practitioners develop this aspiration or “mind of awakening,” also known asbodhichitta,recite mantras, and visualize the deity, aspiring to make their body, speech, and mind indistinguishable from the bodhisattva’s. Red Avalokiteshvara’s appearance is laid out in ritual texts and painted in thangkas to help practitioners with visualization and training of their mind.

Period - 19th century probably earlier.

Condition - some folds are visible on the photo

Measurement - painting 6.5 cm x 5.8 cm. Outside of the frame 28 cm x 30 cm.

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