The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, is considering appointing a regent to lead the Tibetan movement after his death until his reincarnation is old enough to take over.
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Buddhism, Tibet | Leo Golan | 
November 24, 2008 2:12 pm | 
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Yantra Yoga, the Buddhist parallel to the Hathayoga of the Hindu tradition, is a system of practice entailing bodily movements, breathing exercises and visualizations. Originally transmitted by the mahasiddhas of India and Oddiyana, its practice is nowadays found in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to the Anuttaratantras, more generally known under the Tibetan term trulkhor, whose Sanskrit equivalent is yantra.
Seven years after Taliban militants blew up the two 1,500-year-old statues, a French-Afghan team uncovered a new, 19-metre “Sleeping Buddha” buried in the earth.
Emptiness, the ultimate nature of Dharmakaya, the Absolute Body, is not a simple nothingness. It possesses intrinsically the faculty of knowing all phenomena. This faculty is the luminous or cognitive aspect of the Dharmakaya, whose expression is spontaneous. The Dharmakaya is not the product of causes and conditions; it is the original nature of mind.
It is said that you should not seek for Buddhahood outside of yourself; the substances for the achievement of Buddhahood are within.
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Buddhism | Leo Golan | November 2, 2008 5:31 pm | Comments (3)
