The charming and exquisite blue goddess of Tibetan Plateau.

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The charming and exquisite blue goddess of Tibetan Plateau. 

What will be your first image or picture of Tibet? A mysterious, yet exceptionally spectacular breathtaking snow mountain of Himalaya? or, the prominent and perspectives of the Tibetan herdsmen with their livestock? 

All things considered, these are the exceptionally conventional reception from people in general. Honestly, it was the characteristic natural world in the Himalaya mountain. Let take a look at this astoundingly yet brilliantly beautiful flowers of the Tibetan plateau. The native of the Himalayas, they called it as the beautiful blue goddess of Poppy.  

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Cry of the Tibetan Herders

Facing the uncertainty tend to produce certain predictable fears.

• Fear of the Unknown

• Fear of Failure

• Fear of Abandonment 

• Fear of Culture and heritage disappearing

To be truthful, there are many fears and uncertainty what lies ahead of the  Tibetan world.” Fear of an uncertain future and all this related fears can stop us from doing great things, and it can keep us holding onto things that are hurting us.  Fear does not make us strong, instead it makes us weak and incapable of function our minds and thoughts in a right direction. 

In Tibet, an estimated 2 - 3 million Tibetan herders live with their herds in the northern and eastern regions of the plateau. Tibetan herders have lived for centuries in the high grasslands of Central Asia, yet many development programs are currently transforming their lives. Tibetan herders face uncertain future and the traditional herder is fast vanishing by one of the main assumptions of PRC policy, China

Many people’s lives are dedicated to Tibetan Buddhism. Religious customs are part of everyday life, from chanting mantras and prostrating in a local square to walking the ‘kora’ around a temple or sacred site. China wishes to control and limit Tibetan Buddhism in order to weaken Tibetan identity and strengthen its control over Tibet.

Monks and nuns also face restrictions on their practise and China’s military put on shows of force at religious events. Access to important pilgrimage sites is restricted and many sacred lakes and mountains have been dammed and mined without Tibetans' consent.

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The Victorious White Parasol Goddess - Ushnisha Sitatapatra

Who is The Victorious White Parasol Goddess - Ushnisha Sitatapatra ?
The name Ushnisha Sitatapatra translates as "The Victorious White Parasol. She is the protector against supernatural phenomena dangers and quelling disasters. Ushnisha Sitatapatra, is her name in Sanskrit, and 'Dug-Kar' is her name in Tibetan.

Her name is composed of 'Sita' (White) and 'atapatra (Parasol or Umbrella).She is known as the White Umbrella Goddess who saves us from all harm. Her parasol symbolizes protection from natural catastrophes, diseases, spirit harm and all forms of misfortune. 

Ushnisha Sitatapatra is one of the most complex Vajrayana goddesses. According to the Buddhist text,  Ushnisha Sitatapatra emerged from the Buddha's ushnisha when Buddha was in the heaven. 

The Buddha announced her role to "cut asunder completely all malignant demons, to cut asunder all the spells of others, to turn aside all enemies and dangers and hatred." Her benign and beautiful form belies her ferocity as she is a "fierce, terrifying goddess, garlanded by flames, a pulverizer of enemies and demons.

The Victorious White Parasol Goddess - Ushnisha Sitatapatra is one of many powerful female deities. She manifests her power with her thousand heads, arms, and legs. She has eyes on the palms of each of her hands and soles of her feet, and each head has three eyes. 

Standing triumphantly within an aureole blazing with the fire of wisdom, the goddess tramples the enemies of spiritual attainment (such as anger, greed and delusion) with her numerous feet. In Ushnisha-Sitatapatra’s primary hands are the white umbrella of protection and the wheel of the Dharma (the Buddha’s teaching). Her other hands brandish various weapons and form a halo around her.

She has one thousand faces, arms and legs; each face has three eyes, and she has one eye in the palm of each hand and the sole of each foot, showing that she watches and protects sentient beings.Her central faces are white (as is her body); her right faces are yellow, the faces at the rear of her body are red, and the left faces green; there is also a "tier" of blue faces at the top of her head.

Her right hands hold wheels of the Dharma (dharmachakra) and her left hands hold arrows; one of her other left hands also holds aloft a white umbrella which also symbolises her protection.

She is venerated in both the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions. Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a powerful independent Bodhisattva as she was emanated by our Lord Shakyamuni Buddha  from his ushnisha. Whoever practices her mantra will be reborn in Amitābha's pure land as well as gaining protection against supernatural danger and black magic. Ushnisha Sitatapatr is a female counterpart of the thousand-armed form of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva is a Sanskrit word, Avalokiteshvara  Bodhisattva is known as the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Ushnisha Sitatapatra has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. 

Ushnisha Sitatapatra, her parasol indicates her ability to protect sentient beings from natural disaster and diseases. 

She is white in color, because the principal means by which she accomplishes this function is the enlightenment energy of pacification. By Chanting her mantra invokes extremely powerful protection. Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a powerful independent deity as she was emanated by Shakyamuni Buddha from his Ushnisha. Whoever practices her mantra will be reborn in Amitābha's Dewachen pure land. 

Ushnisah Sitatapatra Bodhisattva is one of the most complex Vajrayana goddesses.Ushnisah Sitatapatra she emerged from the Buddha ushnisha when he was in the heaven. The Buddha announced her role to cut asunder completely all malignant demons,to cut asunder all the spells of others and to turn aside all enemies and dangers and hatred. Her benign and beautiful form belies her ferocity as she is a 'fierce terrifying goddess, garlanded by flames, a pulverized of enemies and demons or evils spirits.

Ushnisha Sitatapatra has strong and magic power to influence all living creatures with her noble moral. The white umbrella in her hand is one of the eight pieces of treasures which is said can be used to drive away the monsters and bring peace. It is said that anyone who have received the oral transmission or empowerment , a minimum requirement to complete the recitation of her mantra is 100, 000 times.

What do the demons under Ushnisha Sitatapatra feet and its representation?

Demons in the Buddhist sense are the bad qualities within all living beings that hinder our path to Buddhahood, such as greed, hatred, and pride. Buddhists have compassion for all beings, even the demons, who must be subdued and brought back into the fold. 

Every being in the universe will eventually attain enlightenment, including the most evil. For all Buddhists, there is no ultimate evil, only delusions represented by demons, who need to be guided back on the Buddhist path. Representations of demons also assist in the meditation on one’s own inner demons that need subduing. The meditator seeks to become like the deity and subdue these inner demons.

Ushnisha Sitatapatra manifests in many elaborate forms, the most commonly manifestation of having a thousand faces, arms and legs or simply as a feminine deity or goddess of great beauty. She us known foremost for her "White Umbrella or White Parasol". She is most frequently attributed with the golden wheel. The auspiciousness of the turning of the precious wheel is symbolic of the Buddha's doctrine, both in its teachings and realization.

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Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct.

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the tantric practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own power and profit. 

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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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Shakyamurni Buddha Day Coinciding with Partial Solar Eclipse

Tadyata Om Muni Muni Maha Muniye Soha

September 13, 2015 is the new moon day and it’s the Shakyamurni Buddha day according to the Tibetan calendar. On this day, the auspicious Buddha day is coinciding with a natural phenomenon as follows:-

1. Shakyamurni Buddha new moon Prayer Day. 
2. Partial solar eclipse.
3. [The maximum eclipse is at 06.55 GMT, with a magnitude of 0.788.It is visible from Southern Africa, Southern Indian ocean and Antarctica]

On this day,  the effects of  positive or negative actions are said to be multiplied by * Hundred million times during Solar and lunar eclipses according to the Vajrayana Buddhism. If you have committed a positive good action, and you will be blessed with the positive Hundred million times of positive Karma actions, but if one has committed the negative actions and it will be multiplied by Hundred million times of bad and negative action. 

The power of prayer is well known over centuries and in all different religious beliefs. According to Buddhism, the world in which we live and all that happens to us is a result of our past actions. Past harmful actions create unhappy results and skillful actions create happy results. 

           Tadyata Om Muni Muni Maha Muniye Soha

One way to purify obstacles we experience due to our past harmful action is through prayers and pujas. A puja is a special ceremony in which prayers are offered to the Buddhas to request their blessings or invoke their help. But most importantly, making prayers and offerings to the enlightened beings, and to the Sangha community generates and increases merit, our positive potential. Merit is needed to have success in all activities. 

Shakyamurni Buddha's holy sacred relics.

Pujas are performed to avert and clear the three types of obstacles which arise due to the lack of merit, which prevent us from achieving our worldly and spiritual goals. Removing these obstacles will help us to achieve happiness and good fortune in all our activities.

How to request a Puja

While some prayers are of universal benefit, there are others that help with specific problems. It is always advisable to ask a lama or other knowledgeable person for advice on what puja is suitable for one's specific situation or problem.

        Shakyamurni Buddha's holy sacred finger relic

There are three types of obstacles:

1. Affecting our  day to day life,relationships, business, and finances. 
2. Affecting mental and physical health in the form of strong emotions, confusion, and associated physical problems.
3. Obstructing the attainment of wisdom, experienced as difficulties in Dharma practice.

Pujas can be performed for various purposes:

1. To help pacify their mind, and decrease fear during the time of death.
2. To bless and guide their mind to a higher state of rebirth and liberation. 
3. To remove obstacles to mental and physical health.
4. To remove obstacles to success in all activities, be they worldly or spiritual.

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Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit
So nam di yi tham chay zig pa nyi

Thob nay nye pa'i dra nam pham jay nay

Kye ga na chi'i ba lab thrug pa yi

Si pa'i tso lay dro war drol war shog.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit [English translation]

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.

A Little Kindness Will Never Star Late

At morning, this is my little offering of  water and food for the birds at my Apartment balcony . Your little kindness will never start late.

One of the best ways to enjoy wildlife in the comfort of your home is to watch birds at a feeder. You'll be amazed at the variety of birds that will come to your feeder throughout the year.

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Dedication of merits
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A natural divine

Flower a gift from the universe, many people who always regarded it just for pleasing their eyes or simply they don't appreciate it very much. Me too, a person who don't really treasure flowers as a gift from the universe, to me, it's just for decoration, functions, rituals or for the sick and dead ceremonies.
Why I had changed my perceptions lately? I am sometimes, some kind of stressed that relates to my works and perhaps life, and all this will create obstacles to the daily spiritual and well beings.

I turn my focus towards to a natural divine assistance to eradicate emotion disturbances. A beautiful flower by its natural beauty has its divine power to heal and nurture oneself, not because of it sweet and sticky fragrance, but rather it beauty that matter most.

By looking or focusing on it and you may experience your disturbing thoughts or will simultaneously have vanished and within that short moments of times I can be free from my stress, free from my anxiety and my spirits have been blessed and a magical message has been transmitted to me.

A beautiful flower will someday be fading away and no matter how much good and bad you are conquering now and one day, all will soon be gone and faded like a flower itself.
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Dedication of merits

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A Pearl of the Himalayan Part 2

Today the journey continues to the pearl of the Himalayas, The pearl is referring to a nearby village called the Sama Village is also located nearby the Nubri Valley. Sama Village is another untouched beautiful heaven on earth, and perhaps it is one of the world greatest natural Paradise, and the ecosystem is highly endangered and should be preserved and free from contamination.  Sama Village of the Nubri Valley is truly a beautiful garden of Paradise with the uniquely green house of plantation and wild flowers are blossomed everywhere, many beautiful butterflies, bees, insects like the little angels are cast with their natural magical spell at the entire valley. 

The natural awesome pictures of this article will certainly bring you to the Pureland that almost everyone  will fall in love with it . 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 protect our mother nature, and it always starts with us to educate our next generation the importance of how  mother nature that she is nurturing us  from billions of years ago. 

A Pearl of the Himalayan Part 1

Tibet is a mysterious pearl of the Himalayan or Paradise on earth, not only because of its traditional mystery threatening culture, its lifestyle and unique Tibetan Buddhism alone have strongly inspired many people in the western world today.  A classical iconic person will be the Nobel Prize winner the 14th Dalai Lama , who is effortlessly carrying his message of universal love, compassion and non violent to the different ethnic of people, religions, culture. 

The journey continues to the pearl of the Himalayas, a beautiful heaven on earth, and this is the world greatest natural Paradise, and the ecosystem is highly endangered and should be preserved and free from contamination. 

The natural awesome pictures of this article will certainly bring you to the Pureland that almost everyone  will fall in love with it . 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 protect our mother nature, and it always starts with us to educate our next generation the importance of how  mother nature that she is nurturing us  from billions of years ago. 

Himalaya Wild Flowers Part 6

Nubri valley of the Himalayan is a valley that nurtured by the power of mother earth, a place with many wildlife, huge greenery plantation farms that located in the low attitudes area, this played an important role in the ecosystems and also the main survivals income in the villages.

                      When the arrival of spring season, the valley will be completely surrounded by the wild flowers, some flowers  that are spectacularly beautiful and colorful, and some are surprisingly  or extremely rare species that many foreigners may not have known to them. This is one of the particular and it is the first time of seeing this worldly thing.

Colorful and beautiful flowers that certainly some are totally outshine the others, but then again it is the natural wonders have turned it into a world of beauty.  Each individual will have its own category of beauty. Nubri valley  a truly the splendorous heaven, a valley that is mysterious and yet with its natural beauty and magnificent stunning signature features.

Himalayan Wild Flowers Part 5

As I mentioned earlier, the Nubri valley of the Himalayan snow land has completely transformed it into a Paradise on earth and everywhere you can see the transformation of life is welcoming the arrival of spring season. Many wild flowers have already been blossomed with spectacularly beautiful and colorful.Some flowers have magically transformed it into a cheery red and pink angelic color and some are totally outstanding or outshine the others beauties, it is the complexity of natural spirits that have turned it into a beauty contest. Each contestant will have its own category of wonders and beauty.

This is one of the purple yellowish beauty contestant, it certainly takes your negative minds away when you try to look closer perhaps, you may try to catch it fragrance or  just like the butterfly is trying  to extract it sweet and sticky honey .

This is another very beautiful contestant with it truly purple colors, purple is represents an elegant yet very stylistic elements.

Yellow, a color of honour used in addressing or referring to a member of a royal family. Your Majestic, and your Royal Highness are those phrases that nothing more can be best described. Throughout the human history, a yellow color is always represented to the royal kingdoms, the power and the majesty of the monarchy.

This is an awesome ornament red hot pinky the perfect ornamentations crown of jewels. The supreme nature is making a stunning creatures and seeded it at the right ecosystem and unique perfect environment in the land of the mysterious Himalayan. 

More story of the Himalayan wild flowers will be coming up in part 6.

Himalayan wild flowers - part 3

Nubri Valley with plenty of wild flowers, rhododendrons, beautiful junipers ,pines and in amazingly connected with mountains natural spirits of the beauty of waterfalls, uncontaminated freshwater, air and wild life are surprisingly very active during day time and many species of insects, birds, and sometime if you are lucky you may have a rare sighting of a highly endangered species the Himalayan vultures that preyed on dead bodies.

Many wild animals roaming around freely especially the deers and antelopes as they have limited of natural enemies such as the Eagles, and snow leopards another highly endangered species and estimated the number of this shy creatures left about a couple of thousands in the wilderness. Black bears are another rare animals living freely in the wilderness of the Himalayan valley. Many deers are not afraid of the monks and nuns as they are used to the presence of them, but these deers are very shy to the outsiders if try to approach them.  

Endangered Wildlife Part 2

Some of the common animal species can be spotted at the high altitude in the Nubri Valley and especially the snow monkeys are not fear of the presence of peoples but rather aggressive when approach, another unknown beautiful and colorful bird is resting nearby. 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 and to preserve this fragile ecosystem.

 

Endangered Wildlife Part 1

These are some of the common species at the high altitude of the Nubri Valley of Himalaya and especially the Yaks are playing an important roles to the local, Yaks can be found everywhere and used it as a traditional transportation tools and as well providing milk to the local farmers. 

The antelopes of the Himalayan had once almost becoming extinction and through conservation and education programs and the number of antelopes are increasing these days. The natural 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.

The phenomenon of the night

When evening approaching and the sun go down at approximately 4pm. The sky noticeably transformed it to a billions of trillions of stars galaxies, and within a short moment a red clouds appeared. Due to the sunlight reflection and the clouds mysteriously transformed it to a magical phenomena.

The Sun beginning to rise

When breaking dawn, the spectacular sunlight waking up everyone to witnessing the stunning and awesome moment of golden ray of life. 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.