Amitabha

 This painting completes the set of three: 

Padmasambhava, Avalokiteshvara and Amitabha

Within the Darkness

 These two images from my archive speak to the notion of wisdom appearing out of darkness. And to a sense of compassion descending into darkness.

The owl, creature of the night, is an ancient symbol of wisdom.

Kshitigarbha, compassionate Bodhisattva, descends into the deepest hells to offer help to those who find themselves in the darkest place.

Jizo/Kshitigarbha

This iPad drawing was created in about ten minutes in the museum on Mount Koya during my trip to Japan last spring.

And this one is a recent version a year later.

Avalokitesvara Variations

Here are a set of variations using the traditional iconography for the four armed form of Avalokitesvara.  He holds the wish fulfilling jewel or cintamani, a mala or rosary and a lotus.   The first picture is a gouache commission painted in 1998 

(Go to  http://buddhist-pics.com/commissions.php to see more commissioned work).

The other images were created on my iPad using a photograph of the gouache as a starting point. The apps I used were Brushes and Waterlogue. I am really enjoying exploring the possibilities of this touchsreen technology.