Machig Labdron

24"x30" plus brocade frame
33"x57" finished

61x77 cm plus brocade frame
85x145 cm finished

A mother herself and inspired by the Great Mother, Perfection of Wisdom, Machig Labdron lived in Tibet in the 11^th and 12^th centuries. Intelligent, courageous, and illuminated, she was the only Tibetan – male or female – to initiate a distinct tradition that spread back into India , the motherland of Buddhism. Machig "developed a system, the Mahamudra Chöd, that takes the Buddha's teachings as a basis and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces. Her unique feminine approach is to invoke and nurture the very 'demons' that we fear and hate, transforming those reactive emotions into love." (Sarah Harding, Machik's Complete Explanation: Clarifying the Meaning of Chöd)