Forearm tattoo of a Buddha head with a teal and gold band across the eyes, set against black geometric line work.

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Buddha head with geometric background on forearm

Geometric · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A stippled, engraved-style Buddha head with a serene expression and a dot on the forehead fills the centre of the design. A teal, blue and gold band covers the eyes, and fine black sacred geometry lines radiate behind the head. Hands with raised fingers appear at the lower edge, and the black shading contrasts with the coloured band.

Geometric Dotwork Forearm Buddha Sacred geometry Hand Geometric line

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dawa had been carving the face into the cliff above the Lhapa col for three winters before the abbot would let him finish the eyes. Snow came sideways over the pass, and the granite was cold enough to crack a chisel if he rushed it. He worked with a short iron hammer and a bag of steel points, pricking the brow and cheeks until the stone seemed to hold its breath.

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Every month the abbot, Lobsang, climbed up with a flask of barley spirit and a square of faded red cloth folded over his arm. Each time he laid the cloth across the carved eyes and said, "Not yet." Dawa complained that a blindfold was a poor thing to spend a winter on. Lobsang only shrugged and said a face that sees everything at once is nothing but a mirror, and he would wait until the lake below the col showed him what the eyes should look at.

In the eleventh month the lake froze at its edges in bands of teal and gold, where the low sun struck through the ice and lit the shallow water beneath. Dawa came up that morning to find the red cloth had torn loose in the night and lay in the snow. He looked down at the frozen lake, then at the stone, and saw that the light lay across the carved brow exactly where the cloth had been.

He left the cloth in the drift. When Lobsang arrived at dusk, puffing and cursing the slope, he stopped on the last step and looked at the face for a long time. Then he set his palm flat against the stone's raised hand, the way a man steadies a friend's shoulder, and said quietly, "Now it can wait a little longer."