GREEN TARA/ A History of Tibetan Postage Stamps/ THE STORY OF THE STAMPS OF TANNU TUVA/ Mongolian Postal Issues/ Featuring a cinderella stamp from Shambhala Nor, the mystic city of the Lake of the North

Shambhala Nor Postal Services

"Green Tara"

2000

by Eric Whollem

edition of 100, plus ten artist's proofs
58 x 88mm.

Copyright by the artist.

THE LEGENDS OF THE MAHASIDDHAS

Tara and the Sage Nagarjuna

Prajnaparamita, the Goddess Wisdom, was preserved for seven hundred years

in the preserves of Makara, the King of Sea Serpents. Tara at last rose from the

sea with the teachings of Prajnaparamita and gave these to Nagarjuna. This was

the beginning of Mahayana Buddhism.

SHAMBHALA NOR/cinderella stamps featuring the chod rite of Vajrayana Buddhism

Shambhala Nor Postal Services

"Chod"

2000

a set of two stamps

by Eric Whollem

from

Shambhala Nor

the lost city of the lake of the north

edtions of 100, plus ten artist's proofs each
60  x 89 mm.
Copyright by the artist.

These stamps could be called by a variety of names, including: artist stamps,
artistamps,  cinderella stamps, fantasy stamps,  faux postage, mail art, or 
micronation stamps.

Shambhala Nor could be interpreted as a "micronation" from my own imagination. 
William Blake once said that "Nature is the Imagination." In this he was paralleling the
Buddhist idea that everything we experience is a projection of Maya.

Featured are meditation images based on Himalayan Buddhist folk art as rendered
by myself--using ink on  paper and collage, with border designs created on an antique
1980's word processor.