SITATAPATRA WHITE UMBRELLA GODDESS (DUKHOR) ART QUALITY PRINT THANGKA

Sitatapatra White Umbrella Goddess Art Quality Print Thangka

Sitatapatra (Skt. Sitātapatrā; Tib. གདུགས་དཀར་, Dukkar), also known as White Umbrella Deity, is a female deity who appeared from the ushnisha of Buddha Shakyamuni, while he was remaining in samadhi in the heaven of the Thirty-Three.

Sitatapatra gained great popularity as a powerful method to avert obstacles in ancient India and has been continuously practiced up to the present day. Sitatapatra is invoked to protect the practitioners against calamities and malignant beings. Reciting her mantra is said to avert evil influences and purify defilements.

The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella Deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which is also translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” Her parasol shows her ability to protect sentient beings from natural catastrophes, diseases, etc. She is white in color because the principal means by which she accomplishes this function is the enlightenment activity of pacification.

Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like him in his elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes with which she watches over living beings, and a thousand arms to protect and assist them. Therefore she symbolizes the power of active compassion.

Sitatapatra is brilliant white, radiating with love and compassion and her body is adorned with various ornaments. In her most common form, she is depicted with 1,000 heads, 1,000 arms, 1,000 legs, and 1,000,000 eyes. In her two central hands, she holds a dharma wheel and the handle of the white parasol from which she takes her name. In the other hands, she holds a multitude of various weapon.