Painting Parnashavari

 When Kayla finished her thangka of Shakyamuni Buddha Teaching the Lotus Sutra she began wondering about what next to paint.  A personal work? Another thangka? Was there anything she could do that would put some positive energy into the maw of the pandemic? Then she learned about Parnashavari, a form of Tara whose function was to quell pandemics.  At the time, few images of this goddess could be found, but she did locate several and determined to paint her thangka. 

Then magic. Zachoeje Rinpoche, who had been in India when the pandemic set in, notified his students that he would be giving a live-stream initiation into the sadhana of  Parnashavari.  With that initiation Kayla would be able to properly prepare to paint.

In this video she tells us more about beginning the painting.  The drawing is now complete and she has begun applying paint to paper.