“All-Seeing One” | Chenrezig Wangchuk སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག Mantra: om mani padme hum Other form: Eleven-Faced Avalokiteshvara | Red Avalokiteshvara རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ། Glossary: Eight Close Sons Description Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Himalayan Art Resources Ad: Buy Avalokiteshvara Thangkas
Curator Sushma Jansari reckons she’s in charge of ‘one of the most important objects in the entire British Museum’ – The Bimaran Casket currently holds the record for the earliest dateable depiction of the Buddha in human form.
This exhibition of Tibet’s Secret Temple – British Museum objects at Wellcome Collection explored Tibetan Buddhist yogic and meditational practice and its connection to physical and mental wellbeing.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche teaches about the different four lineages (or schools) of Tibetan Buddhism
H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama shares his story and memories from Tibet.
Timeline Links: Rigpa Wiki | Treasury of Lives | Lotsawa House | Himalayan Art Resources
Longchen Rabjam ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས། Longchenpa Drime Wozer ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་དྲི་མེད་འོད་ཟེར། Timeline Thangka: Nyingma Refuge Tree Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Treasury of Lives | Himalayan Art Resources
Teacher: Marpa Lotsawa མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ། Main Disciples: Gampopa སྒམ་པོ་པ། | Rechung Dorje Drak རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས། Timeline Thangka: Kagyu Refuge Tree Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Treasury of Lives | Himalayan Art Resources Ad: Buy Milarepa Thangkas
“Marpa the Translator” Marpa Chökyi Lodrö མར་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས། Teachers: Naropa ནཱ་རོ་པ། | Maitripa མཻ་ཏྲི་པ། Main Disciple: Jetsun Milarepa རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ། Timeline Thangka: Kagyu Refuge Tree Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Treasury of Lives | Himalayan Art Resources
