Portable Buddhist altar pendant, Ghau. Dizang/ Jizo. 925 silver 24K gold plated. Arizona turquoise, nan hong agate,

Portable Buddhist altar pendant, Ghau. Bodhisattva Dizang/ Jizo/ Kshitigarbha. 925 silver 24K gold plated.

Arizona Turquoise,

agate called nan hong (southern red),

Dimension of the pendant: 70/18mm Weight of 38 grams.

Possibility to choose a pompom and/or a cord or pendant alone. The pendant is opening by a device allowing the opening of the doors.

The ghau is a kind of portable altar in which the image of the possessor's chosen deity is kept, wrapped in silken garments. The vast majority of Tibetans use ghau at home and carry it on their travels. They keep it on a real altar at home. When traveling, it is attached to the back belt. It serves as a protective symbol during travels and also allows its owner to prove his devotion to his deity.

DIZANG/ JIZO

Kshitigarbha known in China as Dizang Wang or Dizang Pusa (地藏王菩薩),
is the savior of the underworld in Buddhism. His name "Hidden Treasure of the Earth"
is the translation of the Sanskrit Ksitigharba, which means "one who conceals the
earth". He belongs to the tetralogy of the great bodhisattvas masters of
four sacred Buddhist mountains.

Dizang is often depicted as a young monk with a tonsured head, holding
in the hand a pilgrim's bumblebee and in the other a luminous pearl. one and
the other is used to guide the souls of the dead to get them out of hell. Mon
and the other are used to guide the souls of the dead to get them out of hell.
shrine is on Mount Jiuhua located in Anhui Province,
eastern China. He was under the Tang dynasty the main deity of the school
Sanjie who contributed to the multiplication of his representations.people
seriously ill are invited to read this sutra and pray to this bodhisattva to
help them recover. There are many legends taken from this Sutra.

Buddha Shakyamuni says there that whoever recites the name of Kṣitigarbha a thousand
times a day for a thousand days will be protected from accidents and illnesses
throughout his life by divine beings sent by the bodhisattva. “OM HA HA
HA VISMAYE SVAHA” or “Namo Kshitigarbha bodhisattvāya! " In some
temples, pictures of deceased people or tablets bearing the names of
deceased are placed around his portrait or his statue so that he saves them.

In Japan, Jizō is especially requested by women who have made a false
layer or aborted, and placed at crossroads and cemeteries so that it releases
wandering spirits. This Bodhisattva and his Sutra are very important
and are the object of great veneration in East Asia in the Buddhism of the
Large Vehicle