Beautiful Shangri-La

This pictures are taken in Nubri Valley in 2013 and it completely took your breaths away for such a beautiful heaven on earth and perhaps what peoples called it the Shangri-La. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan imaginary land depicted in the novel Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton, he described this is the telltale fiction of the peoples living in the Shangri-La are a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection.

Shangri-La  forever happy land, isolated from our world and the people living at the Shangri-La are immortal and they live beyond our ordinary lifespan and slowly aging process.  

Himalayan wild flowers part 1

Nubri Valley it house abundance of plants and flowers that extends from high altitude to the alpine zone. Many varieties of magnificent and colorful flowers ornament the meadows, thickets and dark coniferous forests. Sometimes these beautiful natural resources had reminded us that mother earth has done so much for the children, we are the ones that had done too much of damaging to the environment and ecosystem. The natural beauty is the mother gems that she is nurturing and providing us with clean air, water, minerals and more important is life on this planet. If we do not treasure and appreciate these magnificent jewels of the nature and one day all this will soon be destroyed by our owned hands. It's never been too late to love our mother nature and it always starts with us, so let go green.

 

 

Medicine Buddha Practice

Tayata Om
Bekandze Bekandze
Maha Bekandze
Radza Samudgate Soha

The Medicine Buddha practice (or Sangye Menla in Tibetan) the manifestation of the healing energy of all Buddhas. He wears monastic robes amd sits on a lion throne. The color of his body is dark blue. By reciting his holy mantra It is not only a very powerful method fand increasing healing powers for oneself and others, but also for overcoming the inner sickness of attachment, hatred, ignorance and the purification of negative physical and mental karma. 

Thus to meditate on the Medicine Buddha can help decrease physical and mental illness and suffering. The Buddhist tradition outlines that Buddha Shakyamuni (the historical Buddha), at Bodhisattva Manjushri’s request, taught in Varanasi the origin of the Medicine Buddha sutra of 800 verses. 

The great Indian Buddhist master Abbot Shantarakshita (8th century) brought this tradition to Tibet. It was then given to the Tibetan King Trisong Deutsan to promote health, prevent diseases, give protection against black magic and to stabilize the ecological system from natural disasters. 

Through the practice of the Medicine Buddha we not only achieve benefit for ourselves, but we are actually cultivating the potential to benefit others, and by doing these practices we actually bless the environment and all the beings in that envir

Dedication of merits
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Avalokitesvara

             Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva 南無觀世音菩薩

In Mahayana School

                   

In Vajrayana School

Chenrezig is known in the Vajrayana 

Avalokitesvara is in Sanskrit

Kuan Yin is known in the Mahayana

The difference names of the abovementioned, is the embodiment of boundless loving kindness and compassion of all Buddhas in 10 directions.

According to both Mahayana doctrine, Avalokitesvara is the Bodhisattva who has made a great vow to assist sentient beings in times of difficulty, and to postpone his own Buddhahood Until he has assisted every living being to free from samsara sufferings.

Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva 大勢至菩薩

大勢至菩薩, is known or described in the Mahayana. Mahasthamaprapta is in Sanskrit language.

Vajrapani , Vajrasattva, Vajradhara these are the three descriptions in the Vajrayana school, each name and manifestation is in unique different form and purposes according to the teachings.

Vajrapani 金刚手菩萨 

Vajrasattva 金刚菩萨 

Vajradhara  金刚勇猛心菩萨

Vajrapani is the Buddha of skillful means and he is signifies as a Vajra as solid as diamonds and unbreakable, with this aspect it signifies the ability to conquer any circumstances, discouraging, doubtful, gloomy, inauspicious, infelicitous, ominous, unfavourable, and it will transform all into a path of spiritual fulfillments and to bring great meritorious and benefits to all sentient beings. Vajrapani Bodhisattva because of his conquers to all the harmful, evils negatively forces without mercy and he often symbolized or depicted in a very wrathful , demonic, evil form and many people who know nothing or very little knowledge of Vajrapani in Vajrayana Buddhism, he can be a very terrifying, fearsome beast and easily misunderstood or misleading by his images and may become a controversial issue with the Buddha teachings.

Vajrapani is traditionally pictured in a dancing posture and within a halo of flames of wisdom fire, which represent transformation.He is holding  a vajra or thunderbolt in his right hand, which emphasizes the power to cut through the darkness of delusion. Vajrapani looks wrathful, but as a representation of the enlightened mind, he’s completely free from hatred.He represents the ability to enter into any situation, no matter how unpromising, and transforms it into a path of spiritual fulfillment and benefit for all. Because he conquers the forces of harm and negativity without mercy.

In Mahayana School 

In Vajrayana School 

Dedication of merits

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The Living Journal – What is Stupa ?

The Living Journal – What is Stupa?

There are three representations of the Buddha - body, speech, and mind. Actual statues are representations of Buddha's holy body. The scriptures represent Buddha's holy speech. And stupas are the representation of the Buddha's holy mind.

Stupas are also called "the embodiment of wisdom". Stupas reveal the path to enlightenment, how an ordinary mind can be transformed into an enlightened mind. 

Generally of Buddhist practices, there are three main types:

1. The foundation
2. The path 
3. The result

Before the Shakyamuni Buddha passed away two thousand five hundred years ago, he instructed his students to build and place his remains in a stupa. 

The stupa is an architectural rendering of enlightenment, depicting the Buddha, crowned and seated in meditation posture upon a lion's throne. His crown is the top of the spire, his body the vase shape or bumps, his legs four steps of the terrace and the base, his throne. 

The function of a stupa is not only symbolic, when a great Buddhist teacher is alive, his body is not just regarded as an ordinary body, but is seen as containing the very essence of his or her awakened mind. 

Similarly, when the teacher passes away the physical remains are considered to be distillation of his same essence, and are said to have enormous power, the power of complete wakefulness.Since the time of the historical Buddha many thousands of stupas have been built to enshrine the relics of great Buddha and Buddhist teachers.  

Adapting to many different cultural forms they have become objects of veneration, pilgrimage and warship in all Buddhist cultures. Stupas are held to promote peace, prosperity, longevity, good health and harmony, subduing negativity of all kinds, dispelling ignorance and delusions and holding the power to arouse the awakened mind. 

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

May the precious Bodhichitta arise

Where it has not arisen

And where it has arisen may it not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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The wisdom nectar

Rainbow , the wisdom nectar
I am present in front of anyone who has faith in me. Just as the moon casts it reflection, effortlessly, in any vessel filled with water.

For anyone ,man or woman, who has faith with me, I, the lotus born have never departed as I sleep on their threshold.

Seeing me all the buddhas are seen, accomplishing my practice, bathe practice of all the buddhas is accomplished, for I am the embodiment of all the sugastas (fully enlightened beings according to the secret guide to accomplishing the guru)

Unstained by objective clinging, unspoiled by grasping mind, sustaining the naked and empty awareness is the wisdom mind of the buddhas.

From Guru Padmasambhava , the Guru Rinpoche.

Dedication of merits

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