Ulaanbaatar
White Tara exhibition opens at Bogd Khaan Palace Museum
Art & Culture
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In the eighth day of the first month of Lunar New Year, exhibition themed ‘White Tara’ opened as well as a ritual event to create deity White Tara for one day took place at the Bogd Khaan Palace Museum.
During the reign of the eighth Bogd Jebtsundamba Khutaktu, there was a tradition to create White Tara in compliance with Divine proportion of High Saint Zanabazar in the eighth days of every month. The ritual has been halted since it was done in 1924 last time. However, the Bogd Khaan Palace Museum revived the ritual in 2013.
Opening the exhibition, head of the Buman Khand (Million Dakinis) Association Ch.Gunzee recited a praise of White Tara, wishing that Mongolians live a long life and good fortune. 52 pieces of White Tara works which have never been shown to public before are on display at the exhibition.
During the reign of the eighth Bogd Jebtsundamba Khutaktu, there was a tradition to create White Tara in compliance with Divine proportion of High Saint Zanabazar in the eighth days of every month. The ritual has been halted since it was done in 1924 last time. However, the Bogd Khaan Palace Museum revived the ritual in 2013.
Opening the exhibition, head of the Buman Khand (Million Dakinis) Association Ch.Gunzee recited a praise of White Tara, wishing that Mongolians live a long life and good fortune. 52 pieces of White Tara works which have never been shown to public before are on display at the exhibition.
According to the old tradition, an artist draws White Tara on fabric, then stiffen the fabric and dye it using natural earth paint. The meaning of creating White Tara for one day is that in the eighth day of the first month of Lunar New, the door to hell is closed and deities including White Tara and health deities land on the earth.
The exhibition will be open until March 12 for free.
E.Altanzul
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