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There are thousands of traditional designs of yantra tattoos, but some of the most well-known and popular include: Ong Phra (Thai: องค์พระ; translation: Buddha's body) - one of the most commonly used elements in Yantra tattooing, but can also be a more complex standalone design. Meant to provide insight, guidance, illumination, etc.
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes and techniques , including hand-tapped traditional tattoos and modern tattoo machines .
Sadasiva (Sanskrit: सदाशिव, Sadāśiva), is the Supreme Being in the Shaiva Siddhanta tradition of Hinduism.Sadasiva is the omnipotent, subtle, luminous absolute, the highest manifestation of Shiva.
The temple is dedicated to Lord Krishna. It is believed that one night, the chandravanshi Jadaun ruler of Karauli, King Gopal Singh was instructed by Krishna in his dream to bring his Madan Mohan idol from Vrindavan to Rajasthan before the attack of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on Vrindavan temples. As instructed, the king of Karauli brought the ...
Peʻa, Samoan male tattoo. The Peʻa is the popular name of the traditional male tatau of Samoa, also known as the malofie. [1] It is a common mistake for people to refer to the pe'a as sogaimiti, because sogaimiti refers to the man with the pe'a and not the pe'a itself.
In the narratives of Krishna, the deity employs the phenomenon of Yogamaya in order to spend time with the cowherd women of Gokulam, the gopis. During his blissful dalliance with the gopis, it is Yogamaya who creates spiritual doppelgangers of each gopi at their houses so that they can also act as chaste wives to their husbands, while also ...
Charanachitras, Mankhas, Yamapatas were ancient form of paintings executed on textile-scrolls and dealt with themes of a narrative-didactive nature of storytelling which finds mentions in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts, according to historian N.R Ray these textile-scroll paintings were ancestor of Pattachitra art from.
Krishna, the favorite incarnation of Vishnu, is a form of the god sent to earth to release men from the power of evil forces. Vaishnavism and devotionalism become so intertwined "that such non-Vaishnavite, bhakti texts as the Ragamala often show Krishna as the male figure" [ 40 ] and in popular imagination he became the archetypal Beloved.