Greeting Cards - Gestures of Enlightenment (SET OF 12)

A series of 12 greeting cards with original artwork conveying the beauty and power of the Buddhas’ gestures. Mark that special occasion with a card that is exquisite, original and auspicious. Send good wishes for long life, wisdom and good fortune with Amitayus’ or White Tara’s gesture, for example, or comfort someone who is suffering by sending Medicine Buddha’s card.

• Buddha Amitayus - Meditative Equipoise

  With his hands in the gesture of meditative equipoise Buddha Amitayus holds a bowl brimming with the nectar of immortality, indicating that by relying upon him with faith we can increase our long life, merit and wisdom, and attain the deathless state of a Buddha.
  
  

• Buddha Avalokiteshvara - Gesture of Respect

  With his hands in the gesture of respect at his heart, the Compassion Buddha Avalokiteshvara shows that even though he is enlightened he still relies on his Spiritual Guide, Buddha Amitabha. He holds a jewel that symbolizes his own enlightenment.
   

• Buddha Shakyamuni - Holding a Precious Bowl

  With his left hand in the gesture of meditative equipoise, Buddha Shakyamuni holds a precious bowl made of lapis lazuli containing three nectars in dicating that through practising the nectar of his Dharma teachings we can also conquer the inner ‘demons’ of uncontrolled death, a contaminated body and mind, and delusions.

• Medicine Buddha - Holding a Medicinal Plant

  With his right hand in the gesture of supreme giving and holding the stem of a medicinal Arura plant, Medicine Buddha indicates that he helps living beings by freeing them from mental and physical sickness. Its three buds indicate that he frees living beings from the three inner poisons of hatred, attachment and ignorance, the source of all illness.
   

• Buddha Green Tara - Supreme Giving

  With her right hand in the gesture of supreme giving, Buddha Tara – the manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas – bestows the supreme attainment of enlightenment on all living beings.
  
  

• Buddha Vajradhara - Bliss and Wisdom

  With his hands crossed at his heart and holding a vajra and bell, Buddha Vajradhara teaches that our heart practice is to accomplish the union of great bliss and wisdom.

• Buddha Vajrayogini - Blissful Nectar

  By holding in her left hand a skullcup filled with nectar, Buddha Vajrayogini – the wisdom of all Buddhas – shows that by relying upon her with faith we can experience the clear light of bliss and attain enlightenment.