“The Lotus-Born” | Guru Rinpoche གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། | “Precious Master” Main Consorts: Yeshe Tsogyal ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ། | Mandarava མནྡཱ་ར་བ། Description | Timeline Thangkas: Nyingma Refuge Tree | Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Treasury of Lives | Himalayan Art Resources Ad: Buy Guru Rinpoche Thangkas
Manjushri, meaning ‘beautiful glory’, is a meditational deity of Vajrayana/Tibetan Buddhism, considered a fully enlightened buddha. He is typically classified as a wisdom deity, associated with insight, who promotes development of wisdom, knowledge, language, and memory skills.
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche speaks about the Four Noble Truths.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche interviewed for Tricycle Magazine by Helen Tworkov. Rinpoche talks about his near-death experience.
The benefits of studying the Buddha-Dharma by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, the abbot of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal.
A detailed explanation and description of a traditional thangka painting of the Pure Land of Sukhavati, also known as Dewachen (བདེ་བ་ཅན།), the Blissful Field of Amitabha Buddha (འོད་དཔག་མེད།), which at different places also addressed as Amitayus (ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།).
“Great Black-Cloak Vajra Mahakala” Form of: Mahakala མགོན་པོ། Consort: Rangjung Gyalmo རང་བྱུང་རྒྱལ་མོ། Links: Rigpa Wiki | Himalayan Art Resources
Shadbhuja Sita Mahakala | “White Lord with Six Hands” Consort: Vishvamata Form of: Mahakala མགོན་པོ། Links: Rigpa Wiki | Himalayan Art Resources
Shadbhuja Mahakala Form of: Mahakala མགོན་པོ། Links: Rigpa Wiki | Himalayan Art Resources
“Great Black One” Gonpo མགོན་པོ། | “The Protector” Other forms: Six-Armed Mahakala ཕྱད་དྲུག་པ། | White Mahakala མགོན་དཀར། | Bernakchen བེར་ནག་ཅན། | Maning Nakpo མ་ནིང་ནག་པོ། Links: Rigpa Wiki | Himalayan Art Resources
