By Richard J. Kohn
This e-book describes a week-long Buddhist competition that's held in Tibet and Nepal. It presents a great photo of latest Buddhist lifestyles within the Himalayas.
Part I Orientations --
Part II the times.
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Given its secrecy among the Tibetans of the Nyingma sect who are its chief exponents, it may never be wholly open to public view. This book could not even begin to fill such a tremendous void. Happily, among my sources were Buddhist yogis fully versed in the Great Fulfillment system. Whenever the material veered in that direction or towards the equally difficult subject of the yoga of channels and winds, I endeavored to eke out enough information to make the translation clear even in the absence of a full exegesis.
The true medium of the arts of meditation and ritual is the human heart. The final counsel of the rituals of Mani Rimdu is that we regard the Earth as paradise and all those that inhabit it as gods. As Trulshik Rinpoche once wrote in a poem addressed to a group of visitors from the Kharta region of Tibet: If your mind is pure, everyone’s a Buddha. If your mind is impure, everyone’s ordinary. We all wander saÄsŸra by the power of impurity. 9 This is not an insight unique to tantra or even to Buddhism.
The bird . . cuts the candidate’s body to bits, and distributes them among the evil spirits of disease and death. Each spirit devours the part of the body that is his share; this gives the future shaman power to cure the corresponding diseases. 73 There is of course, an entire school of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, called “gcod” or “cutting off,” which models itself on the self-sacrifice of the shaman. In gcod, the meditator repairs to a lonely and frightening spot and visualizes cutting his own body to bits and feeding it to the ravening demons who haunt the place.