This remote, beautiful country of Bhutan truly is in the throes of a noble experiment. What makes this experiment unique is that this move towards democracy has been initiated by the ruling monarch himself.
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Mañjughosha འཇམ་དབྱངས། | “The Gentle Voiced” ༄༅། །ཨོཾ་ཨ་ར་པ་ཙ་ན་དྷཱི༔ Mantra: om a ra pa tsa na dhih Wrathful form: Yamantaka གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད། Glossary: Eight Close Sons Description Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Himalayan Art Resources
Mañjushri
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The Tibetan creation myth is a beautiful story about how humanity came to be through the union of a monkey (Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa ཕ་སྤྲེལ་རྒན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་པ།) and a female demon. Pha means “father” in the Tibetan language, Trelgen is “old monkey” and Changchup Sempa is the bodhisattva’s enlightened mind.
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The Five Buddhas in a Nyingma རྙིང་མ་ context are generally found in depictions with the deities of the Guhyagarbha Tantra གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་ and the various systems of deities of the Bardo བར་དོ་ cycles of practice including the Forty-two Peaceful and Fifty-eight Wrathful Deities. Video by Himalayan Art Resources.
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Four Boundless Thoughts Prayer in Tibetan and English
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Machik Labdrön མ་ཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་
Machik Labdrön
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Padampa Sangye ཕ་དམ་པ་སངས་རྒྱས
Padampa Sangye
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Refuge & Bodhicitta Prayer in Tibetan and English
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“All-Seeing One” | Chenrezig Wangchuk སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག ༄༅། །ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔ ॐ मणिपद्मे हूँ Mantra: om mani padme hum Other form: Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara Description | Mantra Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Himalayan Art Resources
Avalokiteshvara
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