Tashi Tagye (Eight Auspicious symbols)

When you travel to Tibet, you will often find the artwork comprising Tashi Tagye or Eight Auspicious symbols.

Eight Auspicious symbols (Tashi Tagye in Tibetan) is one of many auspicious symbols in Tibetan Culture. People usually love to make it into art and decorated their living space with it. You will find it in your hotel room, car, and even as the decorative art of public amenities like bridges.

When lord buddha achieves the state of pure bliss of enlightenment, gods offer Tashi Tagye or Eight Auspicious symbols to represent the eight signs of auspiciousness. These sign also represent a different aspect of Buddha and his teachings.

The Jewelled Parasol decorated with precious jewels and It represents the Buddha’s unfathomable head. 

It signifies the parasols offered to Buddha by countless celestial and human beings, which Buddha blessed as a symbol of protection from the source of suffering, destructive forces and illness. 

Parasol itself is a traditional symbol of royalty. The dome of Parasol represents Buddha’s wisdom; hanging silk represents a different path to enlightenment. 

The golden fishes symbolise agility and swiftness quality of Buddha’s enlightened mind. It also represents his compassionate and Penetrating eyes.

The pair of fishes signifies the two types of penetrating and transcendental wisdom of the Buddha.

The fishes’ symbolise two great rivers Ganga and Yamuna, fertility and abundance, wisdom and compassion, and solar and lunar powers.

The wish-fulfilling vase represents the Buddha’s throat. It is considered as an inexhaustible treasury of profound and vase teaching.

It also symbolises the spiritual qualities of Buddha that container of nectar for immortality.

The lotus flower represents the Buddha’s tongue, free from flaws of speech, endowed with eloquence and other good qualities, which relishes the profound taste of Dharma.
The symbolises purity and immaculate existence of Buddha. As its muddy surroundings do not stain lotus yet, it thrives in it. The Buddha thrives in this unperfect world.

When Buddha achieve enlightenment. The second god to visit was Indra.  To Symbolise the proclamation of the Dharma, he presents a white and right spiralling conch shell.

The conch shell symbolises the deep, far-reaching and melodious sound of the Buddha teachings.

As the sound of conch shell wakes you up to start doing daily work. The sound of Buddha’s Teaching can awakening of sentient beings from the sleeping state of Their ignorance. It persuades them towards the path of noble deeds that are beneficial.

The Eternal Knot symbolises the mystical nature of Buddha’s heart and mind.

The intertwining structure represents the interdependence nature of reality and the complex and intricate nature of all phenomena.

The eternal design indicates the immutable and adamantine state of enlightenment and the ultimate nature of things.

Originally the victory banner is based on the banners use in warfare. In this context, it symbolises the victory of positive virtuous forces over negative ones and the invincibility of an enlightened being.

This victory banner represents the Buddha’s body and his victory over the four kinds of evil forces and other opponents.

The wheel of Dharma signifies the buddha feet. All the enlightened beings have thirty-two marks on their bodies, and wheel pattern on feet is one.

After Buddha attained enlightenment, Brahma ( the king of gods) has offered a thousand spoked wheel to Buddha and ask him to turn the wheel of Dharma.
Buddha blesses the wheel as an auspicious symbol and uses as a metaphor of his teachings.

As Universal Monarch possess wheels to lead his military force and subjugate his opponent. Buddha used his teaching to lead his disciples and subdue the hostile forces.

Above are the informations about Tashi Tagye (The Eight Auspicious symbols) of Tibet. When you travel to Tibet you will find is anywhere from the hotel interior to the postcard.

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