Month: June 2020

This detailed explanation features interactive thangka painting of the Ngayur Nyingma Lineage Tree, also known as Refuge Tree or Refuge Field. The description is based on the Longchen Nyingtik ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག Lineage Tree by Gonpo Tseten Rinpoche མགོན་པོ་ཚེ་བརྟན།, with depictions and names of the gurus and main figures of his lineage. Longchen Nyingtik is a terma (revealed scriptures) tradition of dzogchen (“Great Perfection”) practice revealed by Jigme Lingpa འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ།

The thangka paintings of the life of the Buddha depicts key episodes in the life of Siddhartha Gautama, known as Gautama Buddha. These major events are traditionally called within the Mahayana sources the “Twelve Great Deeds of the Buddha’s Life” (མཛད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་, dzepa chunyi in Tibetan). The Twelve Great Deeds of the Buddha’s Life: Descent from Tushita heaven. Entering the womb …

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