Love the Tibetan symbolism and what it stands for.
Hope to learn a bit more about it the upcoming week when Sogyal Rinpoche wil teach in Amsterdam.
The Ghanta & Vajra on this customer represent the male(scepter) and female(bell) principle.
The bats probably come from chinese symbolism where they mean good luck.
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Two sides of a coin
Iron Tiger !
Last Sunday:14-2-2010, was the beginning of the Tibetan/Chinese New year, in TIbetan called “Losar”…It will be the Year of the Iron Tiger..
So here’s to the new year! May it be a special one , and may it bring clarity & wisdom.
To accompany this New years message I’ve enclosed a drawning and tattoo of Padmasambhava, the Buddha of Tibet…Tashi Delek!
ThaiTemple Mural
In Januari 2006 Rob Deut invited me to this dream assignment :
to paint a mural behind a buddhist altar in a temple in thailand! It was a wonderful experience…Check out the Video! Filmed by Darko &Deut fixed into a proper movie by
Sander from SPREADMOTION
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Fat Buddha?
The man pictured in these tattoos is,on the contrary of popular belief, not the Buddha.
He was a Chinese man called Hotai or pootai who had found the Buddha in himself and wandered the chinese landscape.
He is one of the seven housegods in Japan, and is consisered to bring fortune and happiness and is often seen with money or playing with children..
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Cutting though…
Again a tattoo of a “Phurba” or a Tibetan ritual dagger…
There’s one more on this site, On the forearm of singer/actor Jake la Botz…
He’s a student of Tibetan Buddhism (lineage of Chogyam Trungpa)
And he told me it cuts through Passion, aggression and ignorance…
Most Important Qualities
This tattoo represents the six qualities you need to achieve enlightenment…
They are called the Six Paramitras en they decorate some thangkas and sometimes even the throne of the Dalai Lama…
From sketch to Tattoo
More Tibetan design… From the rough design to the finished
tattoo..Done in one session of 3 and and a half hours…
Tibetan invasion
With the Tibetan masters who are coming to holland this summer
as there will be Sogyal Rinpoche in may and His Holiness The Dalai Lama in june,
I’ll put up some tibetan inspired work…
remember the view!
