{"id":100,"date":"2013-02-25T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrontaylor.com\/artblog\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/mandarava\/"},"modified":"2019-05-17T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:35:24","slug":"mandarava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/byrontaylor.com\/artblog\/blog\/mandarava\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarava"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m loving these little Hindu goddesses I&#8217;m getting from eBay.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/byrontaylor.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130225MandaravaSm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/byrontaylor.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130225MandaravaSm.jpg?resize=384%2C576\" alt=\"130225MandaravaSm\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/byrontaylor.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130225MandaravaSm.jpg?w=384&amp;ssl=1 384w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/byrontaylor.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130225MandaravaSm.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 19.1875px;\">4&#215;6 watercolor 130225Mandarava. In private collection.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">Mandarava, whose name means\u00a0<span style=\"color: red;\">Celestial Red Flower<\/span>, was a princess in North India. She was the consort of Padmasambhava, the teacher who ultimately brought Buddhism to Tibet. Her father, the king, did not like Padmasambhava and threatened to kill her if she did not renounce him. She refused, so he tied them both up and lit a fire! They manifested a lake around their feet and couldn&#8217;t be burned, so the king had to accept they were meant to be together.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">Mandarava is seen here dancing through a ring of fire,\u00a0with ripples of water at her feet.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.1875px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m loving these little Hindu goddesses I&#8217;m getting from eBay.\u00a0 \u00a0 4&#215;6 watercolor 130225Mandarava. In private collection. \u00a0 Mandarava, whose name means\u00a0Celestial Red Flower, was a princess in North India. She was the consort of Padmasambhava, the teacher who ultimately brought Buddhism to Tibet. 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