Beautiful pairing of incredible images of White Tara and 1000-armed Chenrezig.  Both are so pure and so compassionate.  Double mat secures the images in a  simple black frame. With frame 21.25" x 28.25"

Both images by artist Robert Beers.  For more about the artist please click here.

1000-armed Chenrezig  (Tibetan: Chenrezig) Avalokiteshvara with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes (Tibetan: sPyan-ras-gzigs phyag-ston spyan-ston)- is the bodhisattva of great compassion. He is white in color, adorned with the eight jewel and five silk ornaments, and stands upon a moon disc and lotus. His eleven faces are arranged into three tiers- each of three colored faces, and above is the wrathful blue face of Vajrapani, and at the top the red face of Amitabha Buddha. The skin of a deer is draped over his left shoulder and heart, and his two principal hands are palms-folded before his heart. The other six of his eight principal hands hold a crystal rosary, make the gesture of generosity, and hold an eight-spoked golden wheel on his right; and his other three left hands hold an eight-petalled lotus, a golden water pot, and an undrawn bow and arrow. Extending outwards from his body are his remaining 992 arms, which form a series of six concentric circles containing 32, 144, 168, 192, 216, and 240 hands respectively. Each hand has an eye in the center of its palm- symbolizing the union of his five 'method' perfections (five fingers) with the sixth perfection of wisdom (eye). Above his is Amitabha Buddha- the 'Lord of the Lotus Family', and in the upper left and right corners are Padmasambhava and the Tibetan Khadampa lama Dromtonpa. At the bottom center is the four-armed form of Six-syllable Sadaksara Lokeshvara, who embodies the six famous syllables of Lokeshvara's mantra Om Mani Padme Hum. On Lokeshvara's right is his attendant male bodhisattva Manidhara (Tibetan: Norbu 'dzin-pa)- the 'gem holder'; and on his left is his attendant female bodhisattva Sadaksari (Tibetan: Yi-ge drug-ma)- the 'six-syllable lady'.

White Tara  (Tibetan: Drol Kar) Tara- the 'saviouress', and the female bodhisattva of mercy and compassion is the patron goddess of Tibet, and in her green and white forms is believed to have manifested from two tears that fell from the eyes of Avalokiteshvara- the male bodhisattva of compassion. In her white form Tara is invoked for the pacifying rituals of longevity, healing and altruistic activity. In each of her palms and soles is an eye, symbolising that the five 'male' or method perfections of generosity, morality, patience, effort and concentration (represented by her five fingers and toes), depend upon the sixth 'female' perfection of the development of wisdom. These four eyes symbolise her boundless compassion, by virtue of the 'four immeasurables' of compassion, love, sympathetic joy and equanimity. The three eyes on her face symbolise the perfection of her body, speech and mind as the purity of her conduct, words and thoughts. Above her head is Amitabha Buddha.