Green Tara Tibetan Buddhist Handmade Brocade Thangka

This Green Tara thangka was handmade in Nepal. This thangka is 34 inches long and 20 inches wide. This thangka is made from brocade material.

The Tara, Sgrol-ma, is one of the most important deities in Tibet. Sgrol-ma means, "The one who saves." The Green Tara is a goddess of activity. The color green in Tibetan Buddhism signifies accomplishment and activity. In this thangka, the Green Tara has one leg folded underneath herself and her other leg is extended out as if she were going to jump up at any moment. The Green Tara's body is long and slender, and she is very beautiful, with jewels hanging from her neck. The Green Tara is fiercer than the White Tara, but she is still associated with compassion.

The Green Tara helps followers face and overcome their fears in life in order to accomplish and achieve their unique life plans. The Green Tara can help her followers in difficult and arduous situations. The Green Tara is always there to help her followers and will swiftly come and help when called upon. The Green Tara is believed to help her followers cross over from unhappiness to happiness and from darkness to enlightenment. The Green Tara can save her followers from any source of pain. And as the first Dalai Lama said, the Green Tara can save her followers from "lions and pride, wild elephants and delusions, forest fires and hatred, snakes and envy, robbers and fanatical views, prisons and avarice, floods and lust, and demons and doubts."