Samantabhadra Buddha pendant. Tibetan protection amulet in solid silver 925 - Traditional Tangka

Tibetan protection amulet Bodhisattva Samantabhadra solid 925 silver tangka hand painted.

Sterling Silver 925

Mozambique garnet and Nan Hong (southern red) agate from Yunnan. This exceptional agate owes its intense red color to its natural cinnabar content.

As a gemologist graduated from the National Institute of Gemmology in Paris, all our stones are appraised and certified.

The dimensions of the pendant are 65/54/16.2 mm deep and it weighs 91 grams.

The protective windows are made of leuco sapphire, similar to high-end watches.

The pendant comes with its mala, a Buddhist prayer and meditation rosary made up of 108 black sandalwood beads 8 mm in diameter.

This amulet is presented in a rosewood box, itself housed in a high-end bespoke box.

The bail represents Garuda, a fabulous bird-man from Hindu and then Buddhist mythology, son of Kashyapa and Vinatâ and brother of Aruna, the charioteer of the god Sûrya. He is also considered the king of birds. In Tibet, Khyung (ཁྱུང) is the Tibetan name for the Garuda. Coming from India, it was assimilated to the khading of the Bon religion, the golden horned eagle. The black garuda is a deity of the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism who is held to suppress ailments caused by naga and earth spirits. It is featured on the Lungta. It is represented in Shambhala iconography by Chogyam Trungpa for whom it is associated with significant speed and power. Like the phoenix, it rises from the ashes of destruction, it is indestructible.

Bodhisattva Samantabhadra is a protector of people born under the sign of the dragon and the serpent. This amulet represents him in painting. Samantabhadra, whose name in Sanskrit means universal dignity, is a Mahayana bodhisattva, or great vehicle, associated with dhyana, meditation,

He forms a triad with Buddha Siddartha Gautama and Bodhisattva Manjushri. Dignitary of the Lotus Sutra, and according to the Avatamsaka Sutra,

Samantabhadra made the Ten Great Bodhisattva Vows:

1. Pay homage and respect to all Buddhas.
2. Praise the Thus Come One the Tathagata (Buddha).
3. Make abundant offerings.
4. Repent from misdeeds and bad karmas.
5. To rejoice in the merits and virtues of others.
6. Ask the Buddhas to continue teaching.
7. Ask the Buddhas to remain in the world.
8. Follow the teachings of the Buddhas at all times.
9. Welcome and benefit all living beings.
10. To transfer all merits and virtues for the benefit of all beings.

Known in Chinese Buddhism as Puxian, it is associated with action, while Manjushri is associated with transcendent wisdom or prajna.

Responding to the name of Fugen in Japan, Samantabhadra is the subject of an important cult in the Tendai and Shingon currents.

Considered as the adhi-buddha (Primordial Buddha) in the Nyinqma current of Tibetan Buddhism, he is often represented there in Yab-Yum, or male-female indivisible union with his wife or paredre Samantabhadri. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche following the Nyingmapa Dzogchen tradition qualifies the nature and essence of Samantabhadra, the Primordial Buddha, as the originless source of the timeless and limitless Atiyoga teachings, and honors the contradictory view held by some parties that hold that the Dzogchen teachings originate from the Bonpo tradition.

Or from the Chinese monk Moheyan: “Samantabhadra is not bound by time, place or physical conditions. Samantabhadra is not a two-eyed colored being. Samantabhadra is the unity of consciousness and emptiness, the unity of appearances and emptiness, the nature of mind, natural clarity with unceasing compassion – it has been Samantabhadra from the start.“

Unlike his more popular counterpart Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra is only rarely depicted alone and is usually found in a trinity on Shakyamuni's right side, mounted on a six-tusked white elephant. In those traditions that accept the Avatamsaka Sutra as its fundamental instruction, Samantabhadra and Manjusri flank Vairocana Buddha, the central Buddha of that particular sutra.

He is sometimes shown in Chinese art with female features, riding an elephant with six pairs of tusks while carrying a lotus leaf "umbrella" (Sanskrit: chatra), wearing dress and features similar to some female depictions from Guanyin. It is in this form that Samantabhadra is revered as the patron bodhisattva of the monasteries associated with Mount Emei in western China in Sichuan Province, an important Buddhist pilgrimage site. Some believe that Samantabhadra's white elephant mount was the same elephant that appeared to Queen Maya, the Buddha's mother, to announce his birth. Esoteric Mahayana traditions treat Samantabhada as one of the "Primordial" Buddhas (Sanskrit: Dharmakaya), but the main primordial Buddha is considered Vairocana.

The people of Sri Lanka worship Samantabhadra Bodhisattva as Saman (also called Sumana, Samantha, Sumana Saman). The name Saman means "the morning rising sun". The god Saman is considered one of the guardian deities of the island as well as a protector of Buddhism. His main shrine is located in Ratnapura, where an annual festival is held in his honor."