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A LARGE GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ FIGURE OF Green Tara, also known as Shyamatara, is venerated as a saviour and
GREEN TARA liberator from samsara, the earthly realm of birth and rebirth. According
Tibet, 16th century to Buddhist mythology, Green Tara emerged from a lotus bud rising
Well modelled seated in lalitasana, the right hand in varada mudra and from a lake of the tears of Avalokiteshvara, shed for the suffering of all
the left in vitarka mudra, each holding long leafy lotus stems, wearing sentient beings. She embodies compassion in a dynamic form, hence
elaborate jewellery and an incised robe falling in drapes, her shoulders the usual depiction of the goddess with right leg outstretched, ready to
supporting a celestial scarf, the face with benevolent expression leap out to ease suffering. Her right hand is held out in varada mudra,
flanked by pendulous earlobes, crowned with a five-leaf tiara enclosing a gesture of compassion and charity, and the left hand in vitarka
the hair coiled into an elaborate chignon, wood stand. mudra, a gesture of teaching.
40.4cm (16in) high. (2).

£12,000 - 15,000
CNY110,000 - 130,000

十六世紀 銅鎏金多羅菩薩坐像

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