Buddha pendant. Handmade tangka of Akashagarba bodhisattva. Bail Garuda

Tibetan Buddhism protection amulet bodhisattva Akashagarba (description below)

Size: 76.5/44/7.6mm. weight of 76 grams

Buddhist collector's item, rare and exceptional.

Completely artisanal work

925 silver hallmarked according to international standards.

HANDMADE TANGKA PAINTED ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT TRADITIONS OF REGONG ARTS

Genuine traditional Tangka Regong The tangka is painted at the temple of Longwu, also called Wutun.

Tibetan lamasery located in the Tibetan prefecture of Rebkong, province of Amdo, called Huangnan in the province of Qinghai in China and is 186 km from Xining.

Renowned center for Tibetan thangka painting. Regong arts were inscribed in 2009 on the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The colors of this tangka are made up of pure gold and crushed minerals.

rotating dharma wheel on the back thanks to a precision ball bearing developed in Germany.

Agate called nan hong (southern red) from Yunnan in closed setting in the eyes of Garuda and on the back of the pendant.

Natural turquoises from Hubei province also set on the wheel of dharma

As a gemologist graduated from the National Institute of Gemmology (ING), Paris, France. All our materials are appraised and certified by us

The protective windows are made of leuco sapphire like high-end watches

Aries representing Garuda

Garuda, fabulous bird-man of Hindu and then Buddhist mythology, son of Kashyapa and Vinatâ and brother of Aruna, the charioteer of the god Sûrya. It is the vahana, or mount, of the god Vishnu. 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.

Sent in a luxurious box,

the amulet is hung on a mala of 108 celestial eye obsidian beads 8mm in diameter, carnelian, royal amber and sacred Tibetan agates called DZI

AKASHAGARBHA

Akashagarbha is the protector of people born under the sign of the Ox and the Tiger.

He is one of the Eight Great Bodhisattvas of Vajrayana. and one of the thirteen Buddhas of the Japanese Shingon tantric school. Its name is formed from ākāśa, “unlimited space”, and garbha, “matrix”. invoked to develop wisdom. His cult has been maintained mainly in Japan.

Ākāśagarbha represents the essence of ether and belongs in the mandalas to the ratna (jewel) family. According to the Akashagarbha Sutra, it is prayed towards the east while waiting for dawn (aruņa) which is its manifestation. The moon, sun and stars are also said to be its manifestations.

Given that part of his name may have the meaning of "sky", some have proposed to see a celestial or stellar deity at the origin of the

bodhisattva. This bodhisattva is associated with a memory-enhancing ritual described in the Bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha Sutra which was introduced to Japan during the Nara period (645-794). Even today, many people recite his mantra in the hope of revitalizing a failing memory.

On the island of Honshu, children used to pay homage to Kokuzo on their thirteenth birthday to request the improvement of their intellectual abilities. Ākāśagarbha is also prayed for manual skill; he is considered the patron saint of craftsmen.

Apart from its utilitarian aspects, the Kokûzô mantra also has a spiritual effect. It is recited to develop wisdom. Kukai, founder of Shingon Buddhism, did his special asceticism several times, "the Goumanji" ritual of 100 days consisting in repeating the mantra a million times in isolation.

At the end of the 10th, it is said that the star of dawn, symbolized by the

bodhisattva, descended to merge with him, bringing him enlightenment. Last on the list of Thirteen Buddhas of the True Word stream, Ākāśagarbha also closes the cycle of funeral rituals by presiding over the last commemorative ceremony 32 years after the death. Ākāśagarbha also has some significance in Nichiren Buddhism.

The Seicho-ji (Kiyosumi-dera), temple where the founder of the current studied, was

built around a statue of this bodhisattva. According to the Gosho, a collection of his writings, Nichiren saw one day Kokuzo appear before him and then change into an old monk who gave him a pearl of wisdom.