Original Hand Painted Masterpiece Eight Medicine Buddha/Eight Healing Buddha/Eight Buddha Brothers Tibetan Meditation Thangka Painting

This is a masterpiece, master quality Eight Medicine Buddha Thangka Painting. The Bhaisajyaguru is the chief among the eight Medicine Buddhas. Bhaisajyaguru is the master of medicine and healing bodhisattva. He is like a doctor, who heals suffering beings through his divine teachings. Meditating on the Medicine Buddha is considered to be a powerful method for increasing healing powers, allowing practitioners to alleviate their own sufferings as well as those of others. Through his boundless compassion and generosity, Medicine Buddha helps sincere seekers overcome physical illness and infirmity. The Medicine Buddha is the skillful doctor who heals the diseases afflicting all sentient beings, by providing the Dharma as a profound antidote to the poisons of attachment, hatred, and ignorance, he lifts the veil of delusion and points the way to freedom.

The Buddha has depicted with his right hand extended downward, palm open, with thumb and index finger touching. This posture is known as Varada Mudra or the gesture of granting wishes. This mudra symbolizes Medicine Buddha’s kindness, charity, and compassion toward all beings. On the same hand, he lightly grasps a sprig of the Myrobalan plant, an important healing herb in Ayurvedic medicine. It is believed that this plant has the power not only to heal the body but also to free one from the inner sicknesses of attachment, hatred, and ignorance. His left hand lies in his lap with his palm upward in the gesture of meditation (Dhyana Mudra), representing the eradication of all sickness and suffering through the realization of absolute truth. On the same hand, he holds the traditional begging bowl of an ordained Buddhist monk. The bowl contains sacred medicinal nectar that cures all ills, and hindrances

The term "The Eight Medicine Buddhas" or The Eight Buddha Brothers is the most common in Tibetan Healing traditions. The depiction of the Eight Healing Buddhas, the eightfold division is famous in Tibet. The great Tibetan artist while describing the eight healing Buddhas has created wonderfully painted scrolls, which are unique creations of the Tibetan arts. The worship (offerings, praises, prayers, ritual hand gestures, recitations of mantras and a lot of secret formulas, visualization, initiation, etc.) of the Eight Healing Buddhas has widespread popularity in 'Tibetan Buddhism.

The Eight Healing Buddhas are :

Buddha Suparikirtitanamashri
Buddha Svaraghosa
Buddha Suvarnabhadra vimalaratnaprabhasa
Buddha Ashokattamashri
Dharmakirtisagaraghosa
Buddha Abhijnaraja
Bhisajyaguru vaiduryaprabharaja
Shrijing Shakyamuni.

Size of the painting: 18 x 24 Inch ( 46 x 64 cm)
Material: Handmade Cotton Canvas
Color: Natural, Stone color, Tibetan Glue
Quality: High Quality
Frame: None
Packaging: PVC Tube

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