Padmasambhava Thanka Painting

Padmasambhava was born in the eighth century he is the king of contemporary Tibet Trisong Detsen (755-797). Padmasambhava is one of the few founders of Tibetan Buddhism whose historical existence is proven, although his magical and spiritual deeds make it almost mythical in the eyes of Westerners, while remaining true to the eyes of Tibetans.

It marks especially the doctrine of the Nyingmapa School whose followers beleive him as the “second Buddha”. His mission was to tame the demons premises or, more precisely, the forces of nature that they embodied. Around the year 750, he translated many Sanskrit texts in the Tibetan language, and he assigns the writing of several books doctrinal. The tradition has assumed extraordinary magical powers. His character took over the centuries an increasingly legendary; even today he is revered in the Himalayan country under the name of Guru Rinpoche “Precious master”.

Born from the legend in the country of Orgyen, north-east of Kashmir, Padmasambhava was soon to control all existing sciences at the time. He entered the world of legend in the eighth century by introducing Buddhism to Tibet so far enthusiast Bon and religion of Nature. The activities of Padmasambhava found their culmination in the construction of Samye Monastery (775).

Whatever the doctrine of the monastery where his representation, he sat on the throne lotus position, wearing red clothes, cap completed by half a vajra. His face, which bears a certain discontent, adorned with a thin mustache. He holds a vajra in the right hand and a hammer or a cup filled with cranial nectar of immortality on the left hand. Along its side stands the Tantric scepter decorated with heads and cut ribbons, finished with a trident.

The Guru Rinpoche also known as Padmasambhava, Pema Jungne or Padmakara is the Buddha of Tibet, as is the founder of the Tibetan school, or Tantric, of Buddhism. Their arrival was planned by Shakyamuni Buddha, and his life is full of extraordinary events, from birth inside a lotus flower, a body of a boy of 8 years until multiple manifestations of himself at the same time in different places.

The magical story of his life serves as inspiration, and the facts lead us especulares beyond the concepts of name and form, space and time, life and death.

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