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Vairocana-Mahāvairocana mantras and seed syllables
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Vai ro ca na. Vairocana is the white Buddha at the centre of the Mandala. He features in Carya and Yoga class tantras. In the Shingon school he is considered to be a personification of the Dharmakāya and is usually refered to as Mahāvairocana (Dainichi Nyorai, 大日如来) - a name which comes from the Mahāvairocana Abhisaṃbodhi Tantra. Tantric discourses are traditionally said to be have been taught by Mahāvairocana rather than the historical Buddha Śakyamuni. Mandala of the jinas. Wisdom of the Dharmadhatu.
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Visible Mantra
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Need a unicode font? Download Times Ext Roman. No guarantee or warranty - but it works for me. Diacritics are those dots, dashes, and squiggly lines above and below letters which one sees when Sanskrit, Pāli, and Japanese are transliterated using Roman characters, ie the letters we use to write English. Throughout this website I have opted to include all diacritics for Roman script transliterations of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Japanese. Why? Isn't this just being pedantic? Oh that's good, I'rr go and terr the ...
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Siddham Calligraphy Projects
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Siddhaṃ Calligraphy Projects. Most of the pages on visible mantra are inteded to provide straight forward, quite formal examples of mantras and seed-syllables intended to aid visualisation and the beginning calligrapher. However Jayarava is also interested in calligraphy as an art form and so it seemed a good idea to have a page with examples of more ambitious projects. Click the link or image to see larger versions with notes and commentary. From Aparimitāyuḥ Nāma Mahāyāna Sūtra. The Mantra of Light.
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The Seed Syllable Hrih
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The Seed Syllable hrīḥ. Hrīḥ is the seed syllable of Amitābha. And so represents the qualities of the Buddha of the western quarter: chiefly meditation and compassion. In Tibet it is also associated with Avalokiteśvara. Read my essay on the seed syllable hrīḥ. Pronounced /hriːh/ ( IPA. Chinese immitation Seal Script. Picture of hrīḥ on a. Courtesy of solemn.still. This carving of hrīḥ in the Tibetan script on a piece of stone was bought in Sikkhim by a friend for another friend. The book of the.
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RELATED TIBETAN SCRIPTS: Teaching in London Samye Dzong April 2015
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015. Teaching in London Samye Dzong April 2015. Photographs by Nicolas Laborie. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). May the glorious Dharma flourish. བོད་ཡིག་གཟུགས་མཁས་པ།. Artist of contemporary Tibetan calligraphy and iconography. View my complete profile. Teaching in London Samye Dzong April 2015. The Mani mantra of Avalokiteśvara arranged on a lotus Mandala. Each of the letters are placed on each petal starting at the bottom (. The Five Wisdom Buddhas. The Sun and The Moon. The wisd...
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RELATED TIBETAN SCRIPTS: March 2014
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Wednesday, 12 March 2014. As part of the "Bodies in Balance". Tibetan Medicine exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC, Tashi Mannox gives a lecture and calligraphy interactive "The Painted Mantra". Participants are invited to join Tashi in creating the sacred proportion and significance of the, seed syllable of Medicine Buddha that is essential to the visualisation practice around which the mantra of healing is arranged. Held at the Shang Shung Institute Library in Conway, Massachusetts. The line o...
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RELATED TIBETAN SCRIPTS: January 2014
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014. The passing of great masters. Recently scanned from a slide, this photo has remained unpublished for nearly 50 years. With the tragic passing of Kyabje Akong Rinpoche on the 16th October 2013 and on 29th November 2012, the passing of Sherab Palden Beru, along with the earlier passing of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1987. Swift return prayer of Choje Akong Tulku was composed by. The 17th Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje. It is due to the wisdom and artistry of these Bodhi masters that ...
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RELATED TIBETAN SCRIPTS: June 2015
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Monday, 8 June 2015. Akong Rinpoche Foundation logo. In March 2015, the eldest son of the former Akong Tulku Rinpoché, Jigme Tarap requested Tashi Mannox to come up with a logo design for the newly formed Akong Rinpoché Foundation. Set up to continue the noble work of the 2nd Akong Tulku, and aid support in Northern India, Nepal and the Tibetan homeland, especially Akong Rinpoché's seat monastery in Eastern Tibet, Kham called Dolma Lhakang. As a close disciple of Akong Tulku. དཀོན་ means sacr...The domin...
