Dalai Lama - རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།  His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. At the age of two, the child, then named Lhamo Dhondup, was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of...

Eight Medicine Buddhas -  སྨན་བླ་བདེ་གཤེགས་བརྒྱད། Names of the seven other buddhas of medicine Buddha Bhaiṣajya-guru has seven accompanying buddhas in his retinue. One of these is Buddha Shakyamuni. Excellent Name (Tib. མཚན་ལེགས་) Appearance of Stainless Fine Gold (Tib. གསེར་བཟང་དྲི་མེད་སྣང་བ་) Glorious Supreme One...

Dalai Lama - རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།  His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. At the age of two, the child, then named Lhamo Dhondup, was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of...

Vajrapani - Chana Dorjee  - ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ། Vajrapāṇi (Sanskrit; Pali: Vajirapāṇi, meaning, "Vajra in [his] hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. He is the protector and guide of Gautama Buddha and rose to symbolize the Buddha's power. SIZE: S: THANKA: 38X22(inches)      MELONG: 17X12(inches) ...

Gautama Buddha - སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས། The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama or Buddha Shakyamuni) was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in ancient India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE). He is revered as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism, and worshipped by most Buddhist...

Gautama Buddha - སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས། The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama or Buddha Shakyamuni) was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in ancient India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE). He is revered as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism, and worshipped by most Buddhist...

Chenrezig - Avalokiteśvara -  སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། Avalokiteśvara or Padmapani  is a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. This bodhisattva is variably depicted, described and portrayed in different cultures as either male or female. In Tibet, he is known as Chenrezig. SIZE: S: THANKA: 38X22(inches)      MELONG:...

Vajrapani - Chana Dorjee  - ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ། Vajrapāṇi (Sanskrit; Pali: Vajirapāṇi, meaning, "Vajra in [his] hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. He is the protector and guide of Gautama Buddha and rose to symbolize the Buddha's power. SIZE: S: THANKA: 38X22(inches)      MELONG: 17X12(inches) ...

Green Tara - སྒྲོལ་ལྗང། Green Tara - སྒྲོལ་ལྗང། is an important figure in Buddhism, especially revered in Tibetan Buddhism. She appears as a female bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism, and as a female Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism. She is known as the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements. Tārā is a meditation deity...

Three deities of long life (Tib. ཚེ་ལྷ་རྣམ་གསུམ་) — Amitayus (Tib. ཚེ་དཔག་མེད་), 'The Buddha of Boundless Life' — a sambhogakaya aspect of Amitabha, particularly associated with longevity. He is mostly depicted sitting and holding in his hands a vessel containing the nectar of immortality. White Tara (Tib. སྒྲོལ་དཀར་) — manifestations of Tara, white in...

Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava - པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས། Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"; Sanskrit: Padmasambhava ; Tibetan: པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས། ) also known as Guru Rinpoche, incarnated as a fully enlightened being, as foretold by Buddha Shakyamuni. Padmasambhava is considered the Second Buddha by the Nyingma school, the oldest Buddhist school in Tibet known as "the...

White Tara - སྒྲོལ་དཀར། White Tārā, (Sitatārā) with two arms seated on a white lotus and with eyes on her hand and feet, as well as a third eye on her forehead (thus she is also known as "Seven eyed"). She is known for compassion, long life, healing and serenity. Also known as The Wish-fulfilling Wheel, or Cintachakra. SIZE:      THANKA:...