Buddha pendant, Tibetan Buddhist in exceptional sandalwood called "Laoshan" from Mysore in India. Deity Tara in her green form.

Buddha pendant, Tibetan Buddhist in exceptional sandalwood called "Laoshan" from Mysore in India.

Indian sandalwood (S. album) is now very rare and therefore very expensive. Sandalwood from the Mysore region of South India is considered the finest quality available.
New plantations have been established with the help of the international community in Tamil Nadu.
It is distinguished from other sandalwood by its characteristic fragrance that persists over time, and the quality of its wood.

Arizona turquoise "sleeping beauty"

Deity of Wealth Tara in her green form (Description below)

Completely handcrafted piece

On the back is designed a rotating Buddhist wheel of life in 925 silver thanks to a German high precision ball bearing.

natural turquoise

As a gemologist graduated from the Institut National de Gemmologie de Paris, all our materials are appraised and certified

Pendant dimension: 45mm high by 30mm wide by 15mm thick

GREEN TARA

Tara "the liberator", "the savior" and "the star" is the main deity of compassion in Mahayana and Vajrayana.

Grouped in the 10 Mahāvidyā, goddesses grouped under the name of Great Wisdom in Hinduism, she gained importance in Indian Buddhism from the sixth century, then in Java, Cambodia and finally in Tibet from the eighth century. century and especially in the 11th century with the arrival of Atisa.

She was first taken for an emanation of Avalokitesvara (Guan Yin), the Bodhisattva of great compassion, born of a lotus growing in a tear of the latter. She was then made identical to Prajnaparamita and will see just like her attributed the title of "mother of all the victors", popularized especially as "the savior" "the one who crosses to the other side".

Considered as "the one who saves from the eight great fears", she is also the universal mother of all beings, protecting animals and plants and reigns over the three worlds the lower world, the earth and the heavens.

In the Vajrayana Tara is also a chosen deity (Yi Dam), capable of leading the practitioner to the perfect Awakening that she embodies.

In the tantric movement, she reveals herself to be a perfect Buddha in feminine form. Tara was introduced to Tibet by the Nepalese princess Tristün, wife of King Songtsen Gampo (569-650) bringing with her a sandalwood statue of the goddess.

The green tara is the main form from which all the others would come.