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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 362980, member: 2844&quot;]It is gorgeous. Very elegant, and I love all the little hands.</p><p>She doesn&#039;t have great age, but who cares, with a beauty like this.</p><p>Definitely Chinese, not Tibetan. Tibetan style is different, they don&#039;t worship Guanyin, and would have great difficulty getting hold of such an amazing piece (or pieces) of wood to carve from.</p><p>In Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism Tara is the female aspect of compassion. She was born of the compassionate tears of Avalokiteshvara. Tara is depicted in different colours, each coloured Tara is a representation of a different property or aspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is something I wrote in another thread:</p><p>&quot;Guanyin is a fusion of the Buddhist Bodhisattva of mercy Avalokiteshvara (male), and a pre-Buddhist Chinese Goddess. A Bodhisattva is an aspect of the Buddha.</p><p>Avalokiteshvara is called &quot;the one with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes&quot;, to reach out to all those in need. The many faces serve to see and hear all suffering.</p><p>Although this Guanyin is based on Avalokiteshvara, according to Chinese tradition Guanyin was given &quot;a thousand arms&quot; by the celestial Buddha Amithaba to save people from Samsara, the cycle of rebirth. She is the guardian of sailors.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In your carving, the figure on top is the celestial Buddha Amithaba himself, seated on a lotus throne.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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