I have now turned my attention to a dusty sculpture that sits behind a very scratched perspex cover in a dark corner of the pagoda. It is in a difficult position to get photos of, yet, the more I look at it the more I see in the detail. So, it fits this challenge. It is called the Lokewesaar Goddess and is an icon important to Tibetan Buddhism. She is also known as the Goddess of compassion. I just can not get a photo of the complete statue and I can not find an image that does it justice.
She has many faces and it is the huge number of arms that first catch your attention. When you look at the hand there is a design on the palm which is supposed to be an eye for her to see all the suffering in the world.
Aquamarine is the colour of compassion. This week I have used that colour as my background and on this I have placed two of the hands and drawn the 'eye' on the palm of each.
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