Red line drawing flash design of a seated bodhisattva figure within a halo, surrounded by rays, clouds and lotus flowers, in a Japanese-influenced style.

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Seated bodhisattva with halo and lotus

Japanese · Colour · Flash

A seated bodhisattva figure sits at the centre with hands held in front of the body, framed by a circular halo and radiating rays. Clouds curl around the upper half, and a row of lotus flowers and small rounded shapes fills the base. The linework is a single even reddish-brown line on a cream, aged-paper background.

Japanese Buddha Halo Lotus Cloud Ray Sun

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow had shut the high pass for nine days, and the goats would not go near the water. Tenzin stood on the bank with his hands pushed into his sleeves and listened to the river grinding under its ice. Across the ford, on a flat grey boulder, an old woman sat with her legs folded beneath her and one palm raised towards him, as if to stop a cart.

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He had not seen her come down. Her robe was the colour of old paper, and the cloud around her shoulders curled like smoke from a cold hearth. 'You will not get them over by pushing,' she said. 'Wait for the light.' When he asked who she was, she only tipped her head towards the peaks, where the cloud was tearing open in long pale rays, and the river went quiet enough to hear a goat chewing.

So he waited. When the sun came through, the water shone like a road, and the goats walked over it one at a time as though it had always been there. Tenzin came last. On the far bank the old woman was gone, but the boulder was ringed with lotus flowers opening out of the frost, and the goats had already begun to eat them.

He counted the herd on the far side. Eleven, the number he had set out with. His mother asked him later who had shown him the crossing, and he told her, and she nodded as if she had expected it and went back to the stove.