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A Tibetan Thangka of Green Tara, 19th Century.

Estimate
20 000 - 30 000 SEK
1 780 - 2 670 EUR
1 820 - 2 720 USD
Hammer price
20 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A Tibetan Thangka of Green Tara, 19th Century.

The central figure of Green Tara is flanked by bodhisattvas. Above her three lamas, and Amithaba buddha. Below Tara are a fierce deities with mortal attendants playing music and carrying offerings. Framed in an old silk brokade with firece five clawed dragon facing each other. Measure with lining hanging 146x71 cm. Measure motif 44x70 cm.

Damages, wear.

Exhibitions

Once she achieved complete enlightenment, Tara promised to return in a female form to benefit all beings. Meditational practices and visual descriptions of Tara appear in all schools of Buddhist tantra. She is usually depicted as a beautiful young woman, commonly either green (for all types of meditation), white for longevity, and red for power. There are close to two hundred different meditational forms of Tara, varying in color, number of faces and limbs, and in peaceful or wrathful countenances. In this painting, Green Tara is flanked by Marichi to her right, the peaceful deity with clean skin and bright white clothing, and to her left by Ekajati, the ash-covered wrathful deity with third eye wrapped in a tiger skin.