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| Dakini Na-ro This nude female figure is a "sky-goer" that is revealed here in her many emanations. She helps the monks of Sa-sKya by giving them insights. Her skull necklace represents a purified Sanskrit alphabet and in her hands are a skull cup and a chopper which will do away with ideas concerning the difference between material and immaterial. Here is how a Tibetan would approach this painting: First there is a blind apprehension of color. Expedient and accumulated tendencies of observation take on color-form and certain groups of colors are perceived. This leads to a discerning of particular types of colors following which begins discrimination. Then while perceiving a major color group, there follows acts of depositing and responding. His experiences make him question the presence of another consciousness. This is all preparation. Then his own consciousness imagines it is outside of himself. In the contact with the art, there is invention on the part of the observer with deposits and references for future use, a sum of experiences, which will act again as time goes on. Then there is a limitless number of conscious instances with never a repetition of anything. Because of his attachment to old ideas, all this produces a sting and craving, now that he sees the thing in its true form. With the actual sight of it comes cessation of eagerness for it. In this circle he faces his own impossible dreams with grief and despair. He may discover that the best way to unravel the painting is to observe everything without liking or disliking. |
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