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Inner Offering, 5 sense offering, Buddhist Deity offering, Tantric offering, Buddhism, Skullcup, Dharma, incense, meditation, Chod vajrayana

Name: Inner Offering, 5 sense offering, Buddhist Deity offering, Tantric offering, Buddhism, Skullcup, Dharma, incense, meditation, Chod vajrayana
Brand: LauraSantiSacredArt
SKU: 193879608
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Rating: 4.9 (643 reviews)

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Materials: gouache, gold, giclee, print, archival watercolor paper, archival ink, shell gold, mineral paints

The Inner Offering
A Skullcup full of Amrita

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This is a heavily symbolic offering visualized in the highest tantric practices of Tibetan Buddhist practices such as VajraVarahi, or Chakrasamvara. It is a symbolic visualization of the work needed to transform the mind to overcome the illusions of our life and reach enlightenment.

In tantric Buddhism imagery used to reach a high state of meditation is often contradictory to what the conventions of society think is good or pure. This jars the mind, allowing a split second where enlightenment can suddenly flit through your normal everyday conventional ideas and illuminate your mind.

Here, a cup, made of a human skull, rests on three heads, representing past, present and future time, and the practitioner’s body, speech, and mind that are to be purified in spiritual practice. The single fissure at the front of the skullcup represents the inseparability of method and wisdom needed for such work. On either side of the skullcup are two nectar-filled vases with a sandalwood pole topped with a yak tail pennon. A victory flag flutters from each pole, whipped up from a wind stirred up by the intense heat generated from the focus on practice which builds up heat in the energetic system. A fire flares up from the heat, melting and boiling all the five nectars and five meats: the products of human existence and life in the world, transforming them into an elixir called Amrita: A white syllable, “ah” forms above the skullcup symbolizing the end of the practice, where in completion the body's energetic winds dissolve and move up the central channel. The fire of intense practice burns away all impurities in the heart, body and mind, opens the central channel, and the energy, now awakened and enlivened, pierces through the chakras to bring enlightenment.

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A WORD ABOUT ARCHIVAL GICLÉE PRINTS : Artwork is scanned via what looks like a really big "camera"/computer and then printed with a sophisticated inkjet printer, which is 6 feet wide, onto artists' archival heavyweight watercolor paper. This makes the most crisp accurate print available in fine art printing technology. People often mistake the prints for actual paintings.

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The print sizes listed under "Options" are not standard framing sizes. I don't paint on standardized sized canvases, so each artwork is APPROXIMATELY the measurements listed. This is true for all prints except the $20 5"x 7" prints - (they ARE 5x7") and a few of the prints that are available only in one small size, like 3x4", or 6x6".

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643 reviews

Honestly, the quality of the item is powerful in many ways. You can tell a lot of love and devotion went into creating this. May all beings be free of suffering and it’s causes

Brady Hansen Apr 6, 2024

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The seller was very communicative and helpful pre-purchase. The colors of the images in the listing photos are very accurate too. I’m quite delighted with the quality of the prints, the paper quality, and how well packaged everything was in shipping. Nothing was damaged at all. Beautiful art and a wonderful seller. Thank you!