The Twelve Deeds of a Buddha, Purely Obsessional OCD and Intrusive Thoughts, Contemporary Buddhist Art




The Twelve Deeds of a Buddha, Meditating about Purely Obsessional OCD and Intrusive Thoughts, Recycled Trash Art, Contemporary Buddhist Art, Mixed Media Assemblage Sculpture, Artwork for Home Decor, Conrado Maleta Independent Artist, Latin American Modern Artist, Handmade House Decoration, One of a Kind, Medium Sized Table Sculpture, Collage Sculpture Figurine, Affordable Art Sold By Artist, New Original Art, Postmodern Expressionism, Art Made in USA

Title, The Twelve Deeds of a Buddha... or … Meditating about my Purely Obsessional OCD and Intrusive Thoughts. Brooklyn NYC 2019

List of the Twelve Enlightening Deeds:
(1) Transferring to a Southern Island-Continent from a Pure Land of Joy (dGa’- ldan, Skt. Tushita), after having transferred his throne there to the next Buddha for the eon, Maitreya Buddha.
(2) Entering his mother’s womb
(3) Taking birth
(4) Becoming skilled and learned in the arts
(5) Enjoying himself with his wife and her circle
(6) Setting forth from family life as a renunciate (rab-tu byung-ba)
(7) Undergoing difficult ascetic practices
(8) Proceeding to a seat for enlightenment under a bodhi tree
(9) Taming the demonic forces (bdud, Skt. mara)
(10) Manifesting full enlightenment
(11) Setting flow rounds of transmission of the preventive measures of the Dharma (turning the wheel of the Dharma)
(12) Demonstrating a total release from all suffering (mya-ngan-las ‘das-pa, Skt. nirvana) by passing away.

Work done in New York, USA It is part of a huge group of works made re-using trash, small pieces of whatever I found walking in streets. This is an original art work. Only one 1/1 of a kind AND VERY FRAGILE.