a land of Tibet

We're at the Jangchub Chokhorling at Litang Chode! We've figured out that I mentioned one of the thrones was that of the Dalai Lama four instead of the fourteenth which is Tenzin Gyatso the present day Dalai Lama! We're meeting more of the vast number of deities of the Tibetan Mahayana Buddhist faith of the Geluk lineage. There are images of many of them here including many we know of already! Vajrabhairava we've realized is actually Yamantaka. I think it may actually be Yamantaka that stands behind the wheel of life. Yamantaka is actually a form or aspect of Manjughosa Jamyang which he assumed after subduing Yama. Anyway, he is an awe inspiring deity! I've tried to describe some of the Buddhist tenets in a simple way although as we know well it is very complex and profound since there are so many sacred texts that were created including vast commentaries on earlier works! These are all the more wondrous because they were written as we know well by practitioners which were often expressing things they observed or understood from an entirely different state of consciousness. Very shamanic! I haven't yet found out the way in which the images here are created although I imagine it may be painting on wood or perhaps on a plaster as with frescos. I've read some accounts in which pilgrims such as Lama Govinda and his wife Li Gotama journeyed to sacred places in Tibet simply to trace and photograph the artwork to preserve a record of it for future generations particularly at places like Tsaparang and Toling in western Tibet. They endured very austere conditions but their work proved priceless when the Chinese army invaded and destroyed much of the original work. There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one!


	Through My Eyes * We're at the Jangchub Chokhorling at Litang Chode! We've figured out that I mentioned one of the thrones was that of the Dalai Lama four instead of the fourteenth which is Tenzin Gyatso the present day Dalai Lama! We're meeting more of the vast number of deities of the Tibetan Mahayana Buddhist faith of the Geluk lineage. There are images of many of them here including many we know of already! Vajrabhairava we've realized is actually Yamantaka. I think it may actually be Yamantaka that stands behind the wheel of life. Yamantaka is actually a form or aspect of Manjughosa Jamyang which he assumed after subduing Yama. Anyway, he is an awe inspiring deity! I've tried to describe some of the Buddhist tenets in a simple way although as we know well it is very complex and profound since there are so many sacred texts that were created including vast commentaries on earlier works! These are all the more wondrous because they were written as we know well by practitioners which were often expressing things they observed or understood from an entirely different state of consciousness. Very shamanic! I haven't yet found out the way in which the images here are created although I imagine it may be painting on wood or perhaps on a plaster as with frescos. I've read some accounts in which pilgrims such as Lama Govinda and his wife Li Gotama journeyed to sacred places in Tibet simply to trace and photograph the artwork to preserve a record of it for future generations particularly at places like Tsaparang and Toling in western Tibet. They endured very austere conditions but their work proved priceless when the Chinese army invaded and destroyed much of the original work. There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one! * courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje. ( please click here to return to my spinning for you!)