a land of Tibet

We're in our coracle heading upstream along the shore of the Yangtze Dri chu on our way to the Langtang Dolma Lhakhang! Two as one we've fixed a few mistakes on the drawing that I made last week! It's yet another of the temples created by King Songsten Gampo and his Queens to calm the forces in Tibet as I mentioned in the poem. Our Footprint Tibet handbook describes Dolma or Tara as being a meditational deity associated with compassion and activities resulting from the compassionate mind. She is very important to Tibetans! As with many deities important to the Tibetan faith she has many aspects or forms some of which we know of already. Many are associated with her role as a protectoress from all sorts of frightening things. There certainly are a lot of them! However, in keeping with the Tibetan view of things both the specific external dangers and the dangers to the peaceful state of mind are governed by the same aspect. In the poem I describe the return of the image of Tara to her temple; the situation described in the storehouse is partially based on an account of such a return I read somewhere. In these cases Tibetans have been able to do this with tremendous effort aided by incredible luck that may well have to do with guidance recieved by the deity involved! At least I feel this is the case because to find statues in such crowded storerooms seems almost impossible especially after they have been stripped of their gilding, damaged or even broken into peices. 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 in our coracle heading upstream along the shore of the Yangtze Dri chu on our way to the Langtang Dolma Lhakhang! Two as one we've fixed a few mistakes on the drawing that I made last week! It's yet another of the temples created by King Songsten Gampo and his Queens to calm the forces in Tibet as I mentioned in the poem. Our Footprint Tibet handbook describes Dolma or Tara as being a meditational deity associated with compassion and activities resulting from the compassionate mind. She is very important to Tibetans! As with many deities important to the Tibetan faith she has many aspects or forms some of which we know of already. Many are associated with her role as a protectoress from all sorts of frightening things. There certainly are a lot of them! However, in keeping with the Tibetan view of things both the specific external dangers and the dangers to the peaceful state of mind are governed by the same aspect. In the poem I describe the return of the image of Tara to her temple; the situation described in the storehouse is partially based on an account of such a return I read somewhere. In these cases Tibetans have been able to do this with tremendous effort aided by incredible luck that may well have to do with guidance recieved by the deity involved! At least I feel this is the case because to find statues in such crowded storerooms seems almost impossible especially after they have been stripped of their gilding, damaged or even broken into peices. 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!)