Handpainted Locket Thangka Mahakala

❤This hand painted locket thangka is drawn by Nepalese thangka artist, and use the traditional Tibetan painting style,housed in a stainless steel gau box, it is a beautiful amulet pendant, REAL TIBETAN ART.

❤Details
Paint Material: cloth,Tibetan pigment
Paint Size: 4.5cm * 3.5cm， about 1.77" * 1.38"
Gau Box Material: stainless steel
Box Size: 4.2cm * 3.3cm * 0.7cm,about 1.65" * 1.30" * 0.28"
Chain length:66cm / 26"

❤ABOUT Gau Shrine:
A "Gau" or "Ghau" is a Tibetan Buddhist amulet container or prayer box, usually made of metal like silver, brass, copper or gold, and can be worn as jewellery if small enough.
They are portable shrines that opens to a concealed inner space, and is traditionally used by Tibetan Buddhists to hold a picture of their favourite diety or Lama, a folded up scroll of sacred mantras, special herbs or sacred relics, and prayer flags.

❤ABOUT Mahakala
Mahākāla is a Sanskrit bahuvrihi of mahā "great" and kāla "time/death", which means "beyond time" or death.
Tibetan: ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།, THL: nak po chen po means "Great Black One". Tibetan: མགོན་པོ།, THL: gön po "Protector" is also used to refer specifically to Mahākāla. Mahākāla is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, Mahākāla is a manifestation of Shiva and is the consort of the goddess Mahākālī; he most prominently appears in the Kalikula sect of Shaktism.Mahākāla also appears as a protector deity known as a dharmapala in Vajrayana Buddhism, particularly most Tibetan traditions as Citipati, and in Shingon Buddhism. He is known as Dàhēitiān and Daaih'hāktīn (大黑天) in Mandarin and Cantonese, Daeheukcheon (대흑천) in Korean, Đại Hắc Thiên in Vietnamese, and Daikokuten (大黒天) in Japanese.
Mahakala is typically black in color. Just as all colors are absorbed and dissolved into black, all names and forms are said to melt into those of Mahakala, symbolizing his all-embracing, comprehensive nature. Black can also represent the total absence of color, and again in this case it signifies the nature of Mahakala as ultimate or absolute reality.
This principle is known in Sanskrit as "nirguna", beyond all quality and form, and it is typified by both interpretations. Mahayana Buddhism, and all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, rely on Mahakala as guardian deity. He is depicted in a number of variations, each with distinctly different qualities and aspects.
He is also regarded as the emanation of different beings in different cases, namely Avalokiteśvara (Wylie: spyan ras gzigs) or Cakrasaṃvara (Wylie: ’khor lo bde mchog). Mahakala is almost always depicted with a crown of five skulls, which represent the transmutation of the five kleśās (negative afflictions) into the five wisdoms.

❤This item is handmade.
As with all handcrafted work, it creates variations in color, size and design.
Slight difference can be expected from one piece to other.
Also color discrepancies may occur between this product and your computer screen.
The video is just a sample, for the real Buddha in paint,please refer to the picture and title.