The point of departure and core of the Buddha’s thought is his teaching on suffering. Human suffering must be eliminated. The Buddha can be seen as a physician because he diagnosed suffering and developed his teaching on liberation, or dharma, as medicine to escape from the cycle of rebirth. He also saw himself as a physician, namely one who immediately healed the wound, in view of the patient, by asking about the cause of the injury.
Those for whom this highly cerebral level is a step too far would sooner think to call on the Buddha to heal physical ailments. This concept developed particularly in Tibet. Tibet owed much of its medical knowledge to texts from India. Thus the science of Ayurvedic medicine also reached the Himalayas. Considering this knowledge was not specifically Buddhist, although it did accompany Buddhist teaching, a Buddha was created, along the analogy of Shakyamuni as spiritual healer, who symbolize medicinal knowledge. This system was expanded to the eight medicine Buddhas. Of these eight, Bhaisajyaguru is the most important exponent. He attained great popularity and is the only one who is depicted by himself without the other seven. In popular belief, looking at or touching a thangka of medicine Buddhas has a curative effect.
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About Kurukulla Thangka-Red Tara
The Goddess Kurukulla is invoked for the controlling activities of subjugating, magnetizing, and attracting. She is extremely seductive: her red color and subjugating flower-attributes emphasize her more mundane activity of enchanting men and women, ministers and kings, through the bewitching power of sexual desire and love Kurukulla appears to have become popular originally, and she remains so even among the Tibetans today, because of her association with the magical function of enchantment (dbang gi 'phrin-las) or the bewitching of people in order to bring them under one's power (dbang du bsdud).
More than any other figure in the Buddhist pantheon, Kurukulla becomes the Buddhist goddess of love and sex, corresponding to the Western goddesses Aphrodite and Venus. Red Magic or Vashya-karma (dbang gi phrin-las) has the function of bringing people under one's power, of enchanting, bewitching, attracting, subjugating, magnetizing them. she may be called upon to exercise her powers of enchantment and bewitchment to bring under her power (dbang du bsdud) those evil spirits, demons, and humans who work against the welfare of humanity and its spiritual evolution. However, in terms of practical magic, she can bring under the practitioner's power a personal enemy, a boss, a politician, a policeman, or a recalcitrant lover, male or female. In Tibet, Kurukulla was also called upon when commencing the building of a new monastery, when undertaking a new business or enterprise, when going into court in order to win a law case, and other such activities, because she can subdue and subjugate the demonic and the human forces that stand in ones way. She, together with Manjushri and Sarasvati, might even be called upon when a student faces a difficult examination in school.
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More than any other figure in the Buddhist pantheon, Kurukulla becomes the Buddhist goddess of love and sex, corresponding to the Western goddesses Aphrodite and Venus. Red Magic or Vashya-karma (dbang gi phrin-las) has the function of bringing people under one's power, of enchanting, bewitching, attracting, subjugating, magnetizing them. she may be called upon to exercise her powers of enchantment and bewitchment to bring under her power (dbang du bsdud) those evil spirits, demons, and humans who work against the welfare of humanity and its spiritual evolution. However, in terms of practical magic, she can bring under the practitioner's power a personal enemy, a boss, a politician, a policeman, or a recalcitrant lover, male or female. In Tibet, Kurukulla was also called upon when commencing the building of a new monastery, when undertaking a new business or enterprise, when going into court in order to win a law case, and other such activities, because she can subdue and subjugate the demonic and the human forces that stand in ones way. She, together with Manjushri and Sarasvati, might even be called upon when a student faces a difficult examination in school.
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About Chenrezig Thangka Painting
Chenrezig may be the most popular of all Buddhist deities, except for Buddha himself -- he is beloved throughout the Buddhist world. He is known by different names in different lands: as Avalokiteshvara in the ancient Sanskrit language of India, as Kuan-yin in China, as Kannon in Japan.
Avalokiteshvara, Chenrezig, is visualized in many forms, with various numbers of faces and arms, and various colors and ornaments. The radiant white Buddha form representing purity and power of the enlightened mind's loving kindness and compassion is illustrated above and at the very top of this page. He sits on a lotus and the flat disc of the moon, with another moon disk behind him, reflecting his total purity. Two of his four arms are joined in the prayer position holding the wish fulfilling gem. In his other left hand he holds a lotus flower and in his other right hand, a crystal mala (rosary), which he is using to count the repetitions of his mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus, which liberates all beings from suffering.
Prayers to the compassionate Lord Chenrezig helps in transforming our deluded thoughts. With a positive mind, we can only be happier beings.
Mantra of Chenrezig in Om Mani Padme Hum. When you say the first syllable Om it is blessed to help you achieve perfection in the practice of generosity, Ma helps perfect the practice of pure ethics, and Ni helps achieve perfection in the practice of tolerance and patience. Pad, the fourth syllable, helps to achieve perfection of perseverance, Me helps achieve perfection in the practice of concentration, and the final sixth syllable Hum helps achieve perfection in the practice of wisdom."
Through his loving compassion and boundless great compassion, Chenrezig hears the pleas of help and heals the suffering of all sentient beings. Prayers to the compassionate Lord Chenrezig helps in transforming our deluded thoughts. With a positive mind
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Avalokiteshvara, Chenrezig, is visualized in many forms, with various numbers of faces and arms, and various colors and ornaments. The radiant white Buddha form representing purity and power of the enlightened mind's loving kindness and compassion is illustrated above and at the very top of this page. He sits on a lotus and the flat disc of the moon, with another moon disk behind him, reflecting his total purity. Two of his four arms are joined in the prayer position holding the wish fulfilling gem. In his other left hand he holds a lotus flower and in his other right hand, a crystal mala (rosary), which he is using to count the repetitions of his mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus, which liberates all beings from suffering.
Prayers to the compassionate Lord Chenrezig helps in transforming our deluded thoughts. With a positive mind, we can only be happier beings.
Mantra of Chenrezig in Om Mani Padme Hum. When you say the first syllable Om it is blessed to help you achieve perfection in the practice of generosity, Ma helps perfect the practice of pure ethics, and Ni helps achieve perfection in the practice of tolerance and patience. Pad, the fourth syllable, helps to achieve perfection of perseverance, Me helps achieve perfection in the practice of concentration, and the final sixth syllable Hum helps achieve perfection in the practice of wisdom."
Through his loving compassion and boundless great compassion, Chenrezig hears the pleas of help and heals the suffering of all sentient beings. Prayers to the compassionate Lord Chenrezig helps in transforming our deluded thoughts. With a positive mind
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About Samantabhadra Thangka
Samantabhadra is the Lord of the Truth in Buddhhism, who represents the practice and meditation of all Buddhas together with shakyamuni and fellow disciple Manjusri he forms the Shakyamuni trinity. He is the patron of the Lotus sutra and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva. Samantabhadra is most commonly described as a bodhisattva himself, although some esoteric traditions regard him as a primordial Buddha.
Samantabhadra is the primordial Buddha associated with compassion and is known as a protector of the sutra.Samantabhadra is the antecedent of all and the expanse of reality. Samantabhadra is blue in color symbolizing emptiness essence of our mind and Samantabhadri is white in color sybmolizing clear knowing aspect of the mind. The unity of emptiness and cognizant aspect is thus depicted in male and female form of Adi - Buddha. Adi - Buddha never meant first Buddha or creator of the Universe.
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About Samantabhadra Thangka
Samantabhadra is the Lord of the Truth in Buddhhism, who represents the practice and meditation of all Buddhas together with shakyamuni and fellow disciple Manjusri he forms the Shakyamuni trinity. He is the patron of the Lotus sutra and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva. Samantabhadra is most commonly described as a bodhisattva himself, although some esoteric traditions regard him as a primordial Buddha.
Samantabhadra is the primordial Buddha associated with compassion and is known as a protector of the sutra.Samantabhadra is the antecedent of all and the expanse of reality. Samantabhadra is blue in color symbolizing emptiness essence of our mind and Samantabhadri is white in color sybmolizing clear knowing aspect of the mind. The unity of emptiness and cognizant aspect is thus depicted in male and female form of Adi - Buddha. Adi - Buddha never meant first Buddha or creator of the Universe.
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Samantabhadra is the primordial Buddha associated with compassion and is known as a protector of the sutra.Samantabhadra is the antecedent of all and the expanse of reality. Samantabhadra is blue in color symbolizing emptiness essence of our mind and Samantabhadri is white in color sybmolizing clear knowing aspect of the mind. The unity of emptiness and cognizant aspect is thus depicted in male and female form of Adi - Buddha. Adi - Buddha never meant first Buddha or creator of the Universe.
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