Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly
(Rattmahem) "Tibet: The End of Time" documentary revealing ancient and modern Tibet with a completely Hindu/Western misunderstanding of "soul" and "reincarnation"/rebirth.
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Potala Palace, massive pueblo, great cultural storehouse, Lhasa, Chinese-occupied Tibet. |
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Day 8 and 9 of the Dalai Lama's teaching at Mundgod, India (476, dalailama.com). |
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Feng Wei Photography (fengwei888/flickr) |
Statue of the Buddha Shakyamuni in one of the 76 chapels inside
the Kumbum, the largest such structure in Tibet. It is situated in
Palcho Monastery, Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. A
Kumbum ("100,000 Holy Images") is a multi-storied aggregate of Buddhist chapels in Tibet. The
Kumbum or great
gomang ("many-doored" college)
chorten ("reliquary") at Gyantse is a three-dimensional
mandala, a structure that portrays the
Buddhist vision of the cosmos. The
Kumbum, like other
mandalas -- a circle within a square -- enables devotees to take part in the Buddhist perception of the universe and can depict their potential as they move through it.
Mandalas are meant to aid individuals on the path to enlightenment. The
Kumbum holds a vast number of images of deities throughout its structure with Vajradhara, the "cosmic Buddha," at the top.
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Tenzing Lhamo, Miss Tibet 2013, lives in the USA (Lobsang Wangyal/pri.org). |
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