WOW! GUHYASAMAJA SPARSHAVAJRA TIBETAN BUDDHIST THANGKA
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T is neither a painting in the mind Nor a mind in the painting: And yet, w else can one find a painting Than in the mind? Avatamsaka Sutra "Preserving the Sacred Arts is always part of the preservation of Dharma" ~ Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche ~ Wonderful thangka in traditional colors of Guhyasamaja and consort Sparshavajra by Mane Lama of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Big!! Measures about 18 inches by 25 inches, minus the borders. This thangka is not mounted in brocade, but brocade mounting in the finest Varanasi brocade is available for very reasonable prices. It may take a little time, but it is all good practice in patience :-) GuhyasamÄja tantra Guhyasamaja Tantra , or Esoteric Community Tantra, (tib.: gSang ba 'dus pa'i rgyud ) (Sanskrit: "Treatise on the Sum Total of Mysteries", also called TathÄgataguhyaka ("The Mystery of the Tathagatas [Buddhas]") is an important tantra whose practice is important to many schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It was one of the 18 major Tantras of the Ancient ([rnying ma]) school, a central practice of Marpa the Translator (albeit not transmitted to his famous disciple [Milarepa]), and central to early practice of the Sakya School, from whom it exercised a particular influence on the Ganden, later Gelug, Tradition. Origin of the tantra The Guhyasamaja, or "Secret Assembly," Tantra was developed
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