greeting cards & Postcard
Stupa Greeting Card
Designed by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche. The liberation on sight mantra is on the cover & liberation on touch mantra placed on the back where the recipient would hold the card.
Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara Postcard
Artist : Ajay Lama
Postcard 6" x 4"
Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara
Avalokiteshvara (Tib: spyan-ras-gzigs), the 'Lord who ceaselessly gazes over the realms of existence', is the bodhisattva of great compassion. In his four-armed white aspect he is the recognized as the patron deity of Tibet who successively manifests in the bodily form of the Dalai Lama. He sits in vajra-posture upon a moon disc and a multicoloured lotus, with his two principal hands palms-folded in anjali-mudra before his heart as he cups a wish-fulfilling jewel. His second right hand holds a crystal rosary of a hundred and eight even-sized beads, while his second left hand holds the stem of an immaculate white lotus. His four hands represent the 'four immeasurables' of compassion, love, sympathetic joy, and perfect equanimity. A transparent rainbow encircles his radiant body as he sits amidst a landscape of rock, clouds and water. Colourful birds and pink flowers surround his aura, and the large cloud-borne leaf that supports his lotus seat glistens with fresh dewdrops. The full moon, the sun, a garuda, and a turquoise dragon appear in the cloud-capped sky. In the lower foreground are the sense offerings of cymbals, a mirror, a lute, incense and a perfume-filled conch that rest within a golden bowl, and behind these are jewels and the possessions of a chakravartin or 'universal monarch'. Avalokiteshvara is traditionally invoked by his six-syllable mantra, OM-MA-NI-PA-DME-HUM.
© text by Robert Beer
Eight Auspicious Symbols Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
Eight Auspicious Symbols
The Buddhist group of the eight auspicious symbols (Tib. bkra-shis rtags-brgyad) are depicted here in a composite form. At the top is the White Conch Shell, which spirals to the right in a clockwise direction. Below this is the White Parasol, with a golden crest bar, hanging silk valances and a draped white scarf. Below and behind this is the cylindrical Victory Banner, which is fashioned of hanging silks and ribbons. At the centre is the eight-spoke Golden Wheel of the Dharma, and on either side of the wheel are the two Golden Fishes. Below the wheel are the Eternal Knot, the Lotus, and the Golden Treasure Vase.
© text by Robert Beer
Vajrasattva And Consort Postcard
Artist : Chewang Dorje
Postcard 6" x 4"
Vajrasattva And Consort
Vajrasattva (Tib: Dorje Sempa), meaning 'the vajra-hero', is a deity employed mainly in visualisation practices to purify the defilements of body, speech and mind. His hundred-syllable mantra is believed to be particularly effective in pacifying the emotional afflictions of anger and hatred. In the Tibetan Nyingma tradition Vajrasattva is recognised as the Adi Buddha or source of transmission for the Dzogchen teachings, and he is accorded the central position in the 'mandala of the forty-two peaceful deities'. Vajrasattva is white in colour and is depicted here in sexual union with his white consort Vajragarvi (Tib: Dorje Nyenma-karmo), who embraces her lord with her right hand holding a curved knife behind his neck, and her left hand holding aloft a nectar-filled skull-cup.
Vajrasattva sits upon a white moon disc and a multicoloured lotus. He is beautiful and as youthful as a sixteen-year-old, adorned with the thirty-two major and eighty minor marks, and attired in the five silk garments and eight jewelled ornaments of a bodhisattva. He holds a golden five-pointed vajra before his heart with his right hand, while his left hand holds a ritual bell at the level of his hip. The attributes of a vajra and bell symbolises the perfect union of his skilful means and wisdom.
© text by Robert Beer
Face Of Heruka Chakrasamvara Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
Face Of Heruka Chakrasamvara
Chakrasamvara (Tib: 'Khor-lo bDe-mchog) is an important semi-wrathful yidam deity belonging to the Highest Yoga Tantra class of deity practices. In this detail of his two-armed aspect Heruka Chakrasamvara is dark blue in colour, with one face and three bloodshot eyes. With his arms crossed he holds a vajra and bell as he embraces his red consort Vajrayogini, who also has two arms, one face and three eyes. The lips of the deity and his consort touch, and their mouths are partially opened to reveal their sharp teeth and fangs. Chakrasamvara wears a crown of five dry white skulls, symbolizing the ultimate emptiness or drying-up of the five aggregates. Each of these skulls is crowned with a different coloured jewel, symbolizing his attainment of the Five Buddha Wisdoms. His long black hair is piled up into two topknots, which are adorned with small nets of bone and crowned at the top with a blazing jewel. At the centre of his upper topknot is a crossed-vajra of five colours, which represents the Five Buddhas and the fivefold-activities of Tantra. A one-day-old crescent moon appears on the left side of his crown, symbolising the waxing or increase of his great bliss. He wears a garland of fifty freshly severed heads, and a protective 'vajra-scarf' is looped behind his neck. His red consort, Vajrayogini, also wears a crown of five dry white skulls, and has a bone wheel with eight spokes crowning the top of her head.
© text by Robert Beer
Lokeshvara Postcard
Artist : Siddhimuni Shakya
Postcard 6" x 4"
Lokeshvara
This exquisite chiaroscuro painting of Padmapani Lokeshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, was the last painting made by the great Newar artist, Siddhimuni Shakya. This monochrome painting has been rendered through a very subtle technique of ink shading, where all the luminous highlights are actually formed from the white paper that it is painted upon.
White Padmapani Lokeshvara stands gracefully upon a moon disc and a lotus that floats above a rippling lake. He is peaceful, serene, dignified and beautiful; his right hand reaches downward in the boon-granting varada-mudra of supreme generosity, and with his left hand he holds the thick stem of a white lotus at the level of his hip. He is adorned with the five divine silk garments and the eight jewel ornaments of a bodhisattva, an antelope-skin is draped over his left shoulder, and a serpent adorns his breast as a sacred thread. Amitabha Buddha is seated at the centre of his magnificent crown, and his ornate halo is adorned with two crocodiles or makaras with small figures in their jaws, and the crowning serpent-devouring head of kirtimukha. Two writhing dragons emerge from the darkness of the upper sky, and Lokeshvara's ornate aura is wreathed with a profusion of lotus flowers, leaves, tendrils, fruit and seed heads. Upon a floating lotus and moon disc in the bottom left corner kneels the radiant and beautiful white bodhisattva Lutavaha, who offers a lotus to Lokeshvara with pure adoration. Upon a similar moon disc and lotus in the bottom right corner kneels the semi-wrathful form of the wealth god Ranikunda, who holds a tray of jewels with his left hand, while he offers a wish-granting gem with his right hand. This beautiful painting is rendered in such a way that the light emanating from Lokeshvara's divine form appears to illuminate all the components of the background landscape.
© text by Robert Beer
Green Tara Postcard
Artist : Devendra Man Sinkhwal
Postcard 6" x 4"
Green Tara (Sepia)
Green Tara, the 'Liberator or Saviouress', is the principal female bodhisattva of compassion and the 'Mother of all the Buddhas'. She protects all beings from the eight great fears of samsara or cyclic existence: fire (anger); floods (attachment); lions (pride); elephants (ignorance); imprisonment (greed); snakes (jealousy); demons (doubt), and thieves (false views). Tara is peaceful and attractive, as youthful as a sixteen-year-old, and her beautiful body is adorned with all manner of divine silk, jewel and pearl ornaments. She sits upon a white moon disc, an open lotus and an ornate lion-throne in the posture of royal-ease, with her right foot resting upon a small lotus pedestal. With her extended right hand she makes the gesture of generosity, granting boons to all beings. With her left hand she makes the gesture of protection or giving refuge in front of her heart, with her thumb and ring finger holding the stem of an immaculate lotus that blossoms at the level of her ear. She appears within a nocturnal landscape, and her beautiful aura is fashioned from a symmetrical pair of scrolling jewel crests, which are entwined with a profusion of lotus flowers, leaves and tendrils.
© text by Robert Beer
White Mahakala Postcard
Artist : Chewang Dorje
Postcard 6" x 4"
White Mahakala
White, or 'Wish-granting Gem' Mahakala is a wealth aspect of this 'great black' (mahakala) wrathful protective deity, who is white in complexion with six arms. He stands upright upon a golden sun disc and a lotus, and with his two feet he tramples upon an elephant-headed male and female Ganapati, who each hold a white radish and a mongoose in their two hands. His curling yellow hair streams upward, his three red eyes are round and bulging, and his gaping mouth reveals his four sharp canine teeth and twisting tongue. He wears many ornaments of gold and bone, a five-skull crown, a long billowing silk scarf, a tiger-skin loincloth, an elephant-skin shawl, and a garland of fifty severed heads.
With his first right hand he holds a radiant triple-gem in front of his heart, with his second right hand he holds aloft a curved knife, and with his third right hand he rattles a wooden damaru. With his first left hand he holds a skull-cup of nectar that contains a vase full of gems at the level of his hip, with his second left hand he holds a skull-topped iron trident, and with his third left hand he holds an iron hook.
Mahakala's back is supported by a sandalwood tree, the upper canopy of which can be seen above the radiant arc of fiery jewels that surrounds his inner aura: And encircled within the sphere of radiant light above Mahakala's head is a sambhogakaya form of Ratnasambhava, who holds an eight-faceted gem and a bell in his right and left hands. At the bottom of the painting is a row of jewels with a stacked pyramid of jewels at its centre, with the eight auspicious substances, the five sense offerings, the chakravartin's seven emblems, and two nectar-filled skull-cups appearing behind.
© text by Robert Beer
The Mahasiddha Carbaripa Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
The Mahasiddha Carbaripa
Carbaripa is revered in both the Buddhist and Hindu Tantric traditions. For Buddhists he is one of the eighty-four Mahasiddhas, and for the Hindus he is recognized as one of the nine great Shaivite 'Nath Siddhas', and also as a preceptor of the Hatha Yoga traditions. In his Indian Buddhist legend he is identified as a siddha from the Chamba region of the west Himalayan foothills who possessed the ability to turn people into stone through the power of his gaze. He is depicted here flying in sexual union with his consort, as he leaps across a Himalayan river gorge.
© text by Robert Beer
Paldan Lhamo Yab-Yum Postcard
Artist : Chewang Dorje
Postcard 6" x 4"
Paldan Lhamo Yab-Yum
This black thangka depicts the union of the main Karma Kagyu protector, Dorje Bernagchen, and Palden Lhamo in her form as Ranjung Gyalmo, the 'Spontaneously Self-arisen Queen'. This image of the 'Great Goddess in Face-to-Face Union with her Consort' originates from a vision of the second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi (1204-83), and is unusual in its depiction of a male deity seated in reversed sexual union (yum-yab) upon the lap of the female protector. Dorje Bernagchen, the 'Black-cloaked One', is a dwarf form of Mahakala, who wears nine robes of embroidered black silk, and holds a crescent-shaped chopper and a skull-cup full of blood in his right and left hands. Rangjung Gyalmo sits upon her 'blue iron mule' that stands upon a sun disc and lotus. She holds a khatvanga-trident and a triangular iron dagger (phurba) in her two right hands, and a mirror and a serpent-noose in her two left hands.
Crowning this thangka's top centre is Vajradhara, with Dombhi Heruka (left), Marpa (right), Karma Pakshi (lower left), and Karmapa Mikyo Dorje (lower right). In the top left corner is Vajravarahi, and below her is Four-armed Mahakala. In the top right corner is four-armed red Jinasagara or Gyalwa Gyamtso (Avalokiteshvara) with his consort, and below him is Six-armed Mahakala. At the centre left is the wealth god Vaishravana, and below him is the wrathful black form of Srin-mgon thod-pa'i phreng-ba-can, the 'Lord of the Rakshas with a Garland of Skulls', and his red consort Srin-mo 'bar-ma dmar-mo, the 'Mistress of Rakshasis, the Blazing Red One'. At the centre left is Klu'i-rgyal sngad-kyi bdag-po, the 'Naga King, Master of Herbs'; and below him is the 'Field Protector', Kshetrapala (Tib. Zhing-skyong) and his consort. At the bottom centre is the 'Dark-Blacksmith', Dam-can rdo-rje legs-pa, who wields a foundry hammer and bellows, and rides upon a goat with twisted horns. In the lower left corner are Trakshad Mahakala (above), and the protective goddess Achi choki (A-pyi chos-kyi), the 'Protectress of Dharma', both of whom are mounted upon horses. In the lower right corner is black Klu-rgyal mkha'-nag, the 'Naga King, Black Sky', who is mounted upon an elephant; and the Kagyu protector goddess Tashi Tseringma, who is mounted upon a lion.
© text by Robert Beer
Standing Avalokiteshvara Postcard
Artist : Dinesh Charan Shrestha
Postcard 6" x 4"
Standing Avalokiteshvara
This exquisite painting depicts Avalokiteshvara (Tib: Chenrezig), the bodhisattva of compassion, in the form of Red Padmapani, the 'Holder of the Lotus'. He stands gracefully upon a moon disc and a multicoloured lotus that arises from a lake. He wears the eight jewel ornaments and five silk garments, with a lower robe made from diaphanous silk. An antelope-skin is draped across his right shoulder, and his aura is fashioned of ornate golden scrolls, which are embellished with leaves and lotus buds. His right hand is held downwards in the abhaya-mudra of giving refuge or protection, and his left hand holds the stem of a triple-flowered white lotus, which symbolizes the Buddhas of the three times; past, present and future.
© text by Robert Beer
The Wheel Of Life Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
The Wheel Of Life
The Wheel of Life is a pictorial illustration of the Buddhist teachings on cyclic existence or samsara. In the central hub of the wheel are a pig, a cockerel and a snake, which represent the three primary poisons of ignorance, desire and aversion. In the second circle are beings that rise and fall into the six realms of existence. These six realms are depicted in the wide third circle of the painting, with the three 'higher realms'; the god realm (top), human realm (upper right), and the jealous god or asura realm (upper left) occupying the top half of the wheel. And the three 'lower realms'; the animal realm (lower right), hell realm (bottom), and hungry ghost realm (lower left) occupying the lower half of the wheel. In the outer ring of the wheel are symbolically illustrated the Buddhist doctrine on the 'twelve links of dependent origination'. The wheel is held in the teeth and claws of a red demon (mara), which symbolizes impermanence and time. In the upper left corner the Buddha stands outside the entire wheel of cyclic existence and points towards the full moon as a symbol of enlightenment. In the upper right corner is the Sukhavati paradise realm of Amitabha Buddha, with a pathway leading from the 'judgment hall' of the hell realm into his heaven. In the lower left corner are a group of nine Chinese ladies who are indulging in the refined arts of playing Go, poetry, painting, etc. And in the lower right corner a group of nine skeletons show the outcome of these refined pursuits.
© text by Robert Beer
Padmapani Avalokiteshvara Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
Padmapani Avalokiteshvara
Padmapani, meaning 'lotus-in-hand', is the main two-armed form of the bodhisattva of compassion, Lokeshvara (Avalokiteshvara). He is white in complexion and stands gracefully upon a moon disc and lotus. He is adorned with the five silk and eight jewelled ornaments, and wears the emblem of an antelope-skin over his left shoulder. His right hand is extended downward in the gesture of generosity, as a gracefully swooping pheasant offers him a stem of three jewel-fruits, symbolizing the 'Three Jewels' of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. With his left hand he holds the stem of a lotus that blossoms at the level of his ear. On his right a female bird perches, and the pair of birds symbolize the union of his compassion (male) and wisdom (female). He stands within a luminous and transparent aura amidst a beautiful landscape. An elaborate silk parasol floats above his head, and various offerings are placed before him. The outer frame of the painting displays the 'face of glory' (Skt. Kirtimukha) at the top, a pair of dragons on either side, the eight auspicious symbols in the lower corners, and a fanlike crest of mantras flanked by two ornate pedestals across the bottom.
© text by Robert Beer
Face Of Vajrasattva Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
Face Of Vajrasattva
This painting shows the face of Vajrasattva (Tib. Dorje Sempa) as he appears in sexual union with his red consort, Vajragarvi (Tib. Dorje Nyema). Vajrasattva, the 'adamantine being', is peaceful and white in colour, with a sweetly smiling face and two bow-shaped eyes. He wears the dive silk and jewel ornaments of a bodhisattva, and his golden crown is adorned with five coloured jewels that represent the Five Buddhas of the five directions with white Vairocana occupying the central position.
Half of his long black hair hangs freely about his shoulders, while the other half is piled-up into two topknots and crowned with a fiery blue gem. Vajragarvi, his red consort is adorned with a five-jewel tiara, gold and bone ornaments, with a bone wheel of eight spokes and a half-vajra crowning her topknot. She has two eyes, and with her raised right and left hands (not shown) she holds a curved knife and a skull-cup.
© text by Robert Beer
Vajrasattva Postcard
Artist : Pema Dorje
Postcard 6" x 4"
Vajrasattva
Vajrasattva, 'the vajra-hero', is a yidam or meditational-deity whose practice is commonly employed to purify the defilements of body, speech and mind. This visualization practice is believed to be particularly effective in overcoming the emotional delusions of anger and hatred. A hundred thousand recitations of his hundred-syllable mantra are traditionally performed as one of the four 'preliminary practices' of the Vajrayana or Tibetan Buddhist path. Here Vajrasattva is shown seated in vajra-posture upon a white moon disc and a multicoloured lotus that is supported by two white lions. He is white in colour, as youthful as a sixteen-year-old, with two bow-shaped eyes, a sweetly smiling face, and he is adorned with the five silk garments and the eight jewelled ornaments of a bodhisattva. With his right hand he holds a five-pointed golden vajra before his heart, and with his left hand he holds an inverted silver bell at the level of his hip. His black hair is bound up into topknots and hangs freely about his shoulders, and the scintillating golden rays of his aura are encircled within a rainbow of coloured light.
© text by Robert Beer
The Mahasiddha Ghantapa Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
The Mahasiddha Ghantapa
Ghantapa, the 'bell-man', was a highly realized yogin who lived in eastern India during the reign of the ninth century king, Devapala. When Ghantapa refused to honour Devapala, the king chose to humiliate him by sending a courtesan's daughter to seduce him. This young girl first came to Ghantapa's hut as a servant, but over the course of time she began to sleep with him and soon gave birth to a child. Upon hearing this news Devapala came with many of his subjects to publicly ridicule this fallen yogin, and found Ghantapa holding his child in one arm and a pot of alcohol in the other. Enraged by the king's accusations Ghantapa threw the child and pot onto the ground, whereupon they immediately transformed into a vajra and bell, while a great flood began to arise from their impact. Grasping the vajra and bell, Ghantapa embraced his consort and flew up into the sky with her as they transformed themselves into manifestations of Chakrasamvara and his consort, Vajravarahi. In great repentance the king and all his subjects bowed down before Ghantapa, and by the power of their prayers the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara appeared to stem the floodwater with his feet.
© text by Robert Beer
The Mahasiddha Udhilipa Postcard
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 4"
The Mahasiddha Udhilipa
Udhilipa, the 'flying siddha', was a wealthy Indian who one day gazed out of his window and saw strangely coloured cloud formations that were assuming the forms of animals. Mesmerized by this illusory display he developed a desire to fly like a cloud across the sky. Then one day the Mahasiddha Karnaripa came begging at his door, and from this great master he learned of a practice that could enable him to fly. This involved him travelling to the twenty-four sacred sites of ancient India, and from each of these sites he collected the twenty-four elixirs of the great female dakinis who dwelled at these places. He was then instructed to alchemically synthesize these elixirs in vessels of copper, silver and gold. After twelve years he succeeded in distilling the elixir of flight, and having simultaneously attained the realization of Mahamudra he ascended bodily into the dakini's paradise realm of light. Udhilipa is depicted here seated in meditation posture upon a triangular rock formation, and wearing a garment of leaves.
© text by Robert Beer
Ardhanarishvara Postcard
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Artist : Uday Charan Shrestha
Postcard 6" x 4"
Ardhanarishvara
Ardhanarishvara, 'the Lord who is half-woman', is a representation of the great Hindu god Shiva (Mahadeva), who is united with his consort or shakti, Parvati (Umadevi), in one body. The right half of Ardhanarishvara's body depicts Shiva's white male form, as he holds aloft his attributes of a trident and damaru with one hand, and a small egg-shaped stone lingam with his other hand. A five-day-old crescent moon adorns Shiva's crown, and the River Ganga spouts from the matted topknot on the crown of his head. His body is smeared with ash, and adorned with a tiger-skin loincloth, serpent necklace, a skull crown, and a third eye. The left half of Ardhanarishvara's body depicts Parvati's red female side with its one full breast. She is adorned with the divine silks and jewel attire of a goddess, and she holds a pink lotus in her raised left hand. The union of male (white) and female (red) within one body symbolises the merging of semen and menstrual blood to create life, and the alchemical transmutation or merging of the energies of the white lunar and red solar channels within the 'subtle body', which awakens the goddess Kundalini, causing the ascent of her blissful energies to 'enter, abide, and dissolve' within the subtle body's central channel.
© text by Robert Beer
Ganapati Postcard
Artist : Sundar Sinkwal
Postcard 6" x 6"
Ganapati
This painting of Maharakta Ganapati is a copy of a famous early fifteenth century Newar thangka that was first commissioned for Ngor Sakya Monastery in Southern Tibet. Maharakta or 'Great-red' Ganapati has twelve arms and dances in bow-and-arrow posture above his large blue rat vehicle. With his six right hands he holds an axe, an arrow, a club, a sword, a dart, and a vajra; and with his six left hands he holds a wooden pestle, a bow, a khatvanga-trident, a fresh skull, a spear, and a skull-cup full of blood. Around him are three monkeys that offer a white radish, a bowl of laddu sweets and a precious gem; and the Sakya nobleman who probably commissioned this painting. Ganapati is enshrined by an elaborate torana and he abides within a cave of five-coloured beryl, with many small deities, mythical creatures, auspicious symbols and various trees appearing amidst its crystalline structure. In the upper left corner is the Indian Mahasiddha Virupa, and in the upper right corner is the wrathful 'spirit-subduing' four-armed form of Bhutadamara Vajrapani.
© text by Robert Beer
Om Greeting Card
Text on front:
Om
Blank inside
- 5" x 7"
- Printed on semi-gloss cardstock
- Beautifully designed interior
- From the Duirwaigh Whimsy card series
THE SEVEN CHAKRA ELEMENTS Greeting Card
Pieter Weltevrede has beautifully captured the essence of chakras; the seven centers of spiritual energy.
Card is blank inside and 5″ x 7″ with envelope
Artwork © Pieter Weltevrede. All rights reserved.
Please note: Watermark does not appear on actual card.
Front:
The Seven Chakra Elements
Inside:
- Blank
Brightest Blessings Greeting Card
Text on front:
Brightest Blessings
Text inside
health, wealth & joy
- 5" x 7"
- Printed on semi-gloss cardstock
- Beautifully designed interior
- From the Illuminating Spirit card series
Padmasambhava Greeting Card
Note Card
Size:11,5x16,7 cm
- front and rear four-colour-printing, painted empty inside with envelope
Four-Armed Chenrezig
Artist : Robert Beer
Postcard 6" x 6"
Four-Armed Chenrezig
I made this small gouache painting in 1976. It only measures ten inches (25 cm) in size, but its 'dimension' was quite unusual for its time and many artists in Nepal later copied it. Interestingly the idea of superimposing an ethereal mandala over a natural setting or landscape was a concept that inspired John Miles around the same time, though we came to it independently.
© text by Robert Beer
Khadiravani Tara
Artist : Kungchang Lama
Postcard 8" x 6"
Khadiravani Tara
Khadiravani Tara, or 'Tara of the acacia forest', is shown here with were her two bodhisattva attendants, Marici and Ekajata, who appear at her lower right and left sides. Marici (Tib: Od-zer Can-ma), meaning 'the goddess of light rays', holds the attribute of a flowering branch of the ashoka tree (Saraca Indica) in her right hand. And the semi-wrathful blue goddess Ekajata (Tib: Ral Chig-ma), meaning 'the single hair-lock', holds the attribute of a nectar-filled skull-cup in her left hand.
Khadiravani Tara sits in a posture of royal-ease upon a white moon disc and a multicoloured lotus, with her left foot drawn up and her extended right foot resting upon a small lotus pedestal. She is beautiful and youthful, green in colour, and wears all manner of divine silk garments and jewel ornaments. Her right hand rests upon her knee in the boon-granting varada-mudra, symbolizing that she bestows liberation upon all beings. Her left hand is held in front of her heart in the gesture of granting refuge or protection, symbolizing that she protects all beings from the 'eight great fears', which are: fear of thieves (false views); snakes (jealousy); fire (anger); lions (pride); elephants (ignorance); drowning (attachment); demons (doubt), and imprisonment (greed). With both hands she holds the stems of a blue utpala lotus, each of which blossom at the level of her shoulders. She abides amidst a tranquil landscape of rocks, clouds, mountains, lakes and flowers, and behind her throne ascends the branched canopy of an acacia (khadira) tree.
© text by Robert Beer
Standing Green Tara
Artist : Dinesh Charan Shrestha
Postcard 8" x 6"
Standing Green Tara
LAST FEW POSTCARDS REMAINING (July 2016). This lovely depiction of Standing Green Tara, the female bodhisattva of compassion, was painted by Dinesh Charan Shrestha and based on an original composition drawn by his brother Uday. Green Tara stands gracefully in 'triple-bend' (tribhanga) posture upon a silver moon disc and a pink lotus. She is youthful and beautiful, with a sweetly smiling face, firm breasts, and she wears all manner of divine silk garments and jewel ornaments. With her hands she holds the stems of a pink and blue lotus, and her twisted hair locks are coiled up into a large topknot, with some of its loosened strands hanging freely about her shoulders. Her halo and jewelled aura are surrounded by a profusion of lotus blossoms, and she abides within a beautiful landscape of mountains, clouds, trees and lakes. The inner border of her torana is decorated in colourful brocade designs, while her dark outer torana is embellished on its top and sides with the traditional Newar elements of the crowning serpent-devouring head of kirtimukha, and a pair of jewel-grasping dragons. In the lower corners are two ferocious makaras or crocodiles, and the emblem at the bottom centre is inscribed with the deity invocation, Shri Arya Tara Nama, and the artist's name below.
© text by Robert Beer
Om Mani Padme Hum Mantra Postcard
Om Mani Padme Hum Mantra Postcard
Om Mani Padme Hum Tibetan Buddhist Mantra Postcard for altar, shrine, or sending to fellow Buddhist practitioners. Om mani padme hum is the Tibetan Buddhist mantra of compassion, the jewel in the lotus. The mantra of Chenrezig (known as Avalokiteshvara or QuanYin in other Asian traditions) helps purify karma and aides in higher rebirth for all who hear or see it.
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
Four-Armed Chenrezig Postcard
Four-Armed Chenrezig Postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
Vajrasatva Postcard
Vajrasatva Postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
Medicine Buddha Postcard
Medicine Buddha Postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
Chenrezig cosmic compassion postcard
Chenrezig cosmic compassion postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
White Tara Postcard
White Tara Postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
Chenrezig Postcard
Chenrezig Postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
Green Tara Postcard
Green Tara Postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
Amitabha Buddha Postcard
Amitabha Buddha Postcard
- Dimensions: 5.6" L x 4.25" H; qualified USPS postcard size
- High quality, full-color, full-bleed printing on both sides
