Description
Beautifully Painted on hard paper Tsakli
Tsakli (Tsakali) cards were used by itinerant teachers moving from one monastery to another in order to evoke Vajrayana Buddhist deities. The deities shown on the initiation cards include the Tathagata Buddhas, various bodhisattvas. They probably were made by a Nepali artist for a Tibetan patron of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Tsakali cards were used individually to align a disciple with a deity from the vast pantheon. First, the disciple sought permission from the deity, either through a dream or under the guidance of a teacher. The associated ritual involved visualizing the deity as described in recited mantras (incantations) and with an image—in this case, the deity represented on the tsakali.
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