Продам: "Garuda" Figurine

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Author's work Dmitry Budazhabe "Garuda (the Birth of the Sun)."

Infpol.ru learned ... "From the head of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyna President (Vladimir Putin) has received a souvenir - a sculpture bird Garuda. This is passed on from Hinduism to Buddhism sled revered bird of the god Vishnu. Statue was made of bronze Buryat author Dmitry Budazhabe. Interestingly, Garuda is revered as a fighter with the Nagas - snakes, nesting in the minds of the unbelievers and doubters of God. "

Since the days of ancient India have survived the myths and legends about the origin of the various phenomena of the world, taking in people images of mythical creatures. One of the Hindu legend says the birth of Garuda, the mighty king of the birds that have achieved immortality. Garuda was the fulfillment of long-cherished wish of one of the all-wise husband Kashyap. She wished only two sons, by the power of their own, surpassing all the snakes in the world. A thousand years of her desire fulfilled: she carried two eggs, one of them by accident, broken, spilled pink light in the sky. But from the second appeared hitherto unseen bird. Soon her body became huge and glittering that Agni himself admitted her as an equal. Hearing the gods named its Garuda - "Bolshekryly." The power of the king of the birds was so great that Vishnu granted him immortality. For this gift Garuda was a faithful servant of Visnu. People are seeing are always together Vishnu and Garuda realized that their lives and happiness are associated with the will of the moschnokrylogo and began revered as a god, giving light and help and without devouring the number of snakes, the carrier of eternal threat. Some say they saw Garuda and that he had the body of a mighty man, painted in gold, red wings, like a flame, and the white face and menacing. Others say that his body was covered with golden feathers because he - the sun. In the Buddhist tradition, Garuda is the personification of the energy of fire, one of the five elements that make up the universe. Buddhist practices associated with Garuda used to eliminate harmful energies and in Tibetan medicine. Sculpture Dmitry Budazhabe born to tie the era of the ancient cultures of the East with the present. This decorative objects and, at the same time, the ritual symbols that carry a deep content aspects of Buddhist teachings artworks are in the Buddhist temples of Buryatia, a Buddhist center in Russia, Germany, India, Italy, as well as in private collections in Irkutsk and Moscow.

Material: bronze, wood. Dimensions: 28h33 cm