Mandala - Thanka - Manjushree 50x67cm

Product description Mandala - Thanka - Manjushree 50x67cm

Mañjuśrī - Jyambheyang
Mañjuśrī - Jyambheyang translates to "enchanting splendor" and is the ruler of wisdom and literature. He provides eloquence and inspiration to those who seek to spread the Buddha's teachings to the world. Mañjuśrī is the lord of the sciences, especially grammar and writing, and is the protector of scholars and students, to whom he provides the faculty of knowledge and memory. Mañjuśrī is worshipped every morning in Tibet to exorcise the demons of darkness with his flaming sword, to bring light and to make a beginning possible.
He appears as a strong young man in yellow, white, red or black form, and his distinctive features include two lotus flowers. In his right hand he holds the sword of knowledge (khadga) (sometimes a flaming sword) with which he destroys ignorance and brings light into darkness, like a torch. The right (masculine) side expresses the dynamic (warrior) side of his personality. The left (feminine) side symbolizes the other aspect - wisdom. The left hand is held in a gesture of preaching, and on the lotus on the left is the book of transcendental wisdom, the Prajñāpāramitā Sutra.
The book deals with emptiness, which is the common inner nature of all beings. If one realizes that one's own primordial nature is emptiness, one will attain a state of freedom that has always been inherent in him but which he was unaware of. In this way he will be liberated. This is the truth which Manjushri proclaims and which he cuts the path with his sword.
The attributes of the sword and the book symbolize Mañjuśrī's task of eradicating the ignorance of the people and thereby leading them to wisdom and spiritual awakening.

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