Red Tara (Kurukulla) in Paubha painting

  • Lok Chitrakar
  • 2016
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Painting
  • Stone colour on cotton canvas
  • Nil
  • 63.5x45.7 cm
  • Bodhisattva Gallery ,Kathmandu, Nepal

Present painting of Red Tara or Kurukulla is a masterpiece of contemporary Paubha painting from Kathmandu, Nepal. She is depicted in red colour with four arms, holding a bow and arrow made of flowers in one pair of hands and a hook and noose of flowers in the other pair. She dances in a Dakini-pose and crushes the damon Rahu (the one who devours the sun). According to Hindu astrology, Rahu is a snake with a demon head (Nine planets) who represents the ascending lunar node.

 

 

South Asia: Nepal 1100-contemporary era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paubha

 

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