Dancing Tara order with hook, protector goddess, guardian Tara, thangkas Buddhist art, Buddhist artist,faithstoneart, mokuhanga woodblock, Dakini

Tara with the hook is a protector goddess. She comes from the Mandala of the deathless Tara.
Tara is a female Bodhisattva and an important goddess deity in both Buddhism and Hinduism. Tara represents the fundamental female order aspect of the universe, which gives birth to warmth, compassion and relief from bad karma as experienced by ordinary beings in cyclic existence (samsara). She engenders, nourishes and has profound sympathy for all living beings and acts to relieve suffering wherever she can.

I painstakingly carved a mokuhanga woodblock and then hand painted it. Mokuhanga is a traditional Japanese wood carving and printing technique. It is labor-intensive with hand carving and hand rubbing the prints using watercolor inks.

Artist: Faith Stone
Title: Tara with long life crane
Size: 11 x 14
with double mat, ready
Artwork is titled and signed by the artist