Item: Prajnaparamita (Buddhist Deity)

Prajnaparamita (pa rol tu chin pa. English: the Perfection of Wisdom): the personification of both the Prajnaparamita Sutra text and the concept of emptiness.

Yellow in colour with a peaceful appearance, she has one face and four hands. The first pair performs the mudra (gesture) of meditative equipoise in the lap and the second right holds a sword upraised and the second left a book.

At the top center is the Buddha Amitabha and at the bottom center Green Tara. Various lamas wearing monastic robes are portrayed at the sides.

Jeff Watt 10-2000