Transcending Madness prayer-wheels The Medicine Buddha is surrounded

The Medicine Buddha is surrounded by the mantra Tayatha Om Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha in Tibetan

This Statue has a repository for consecration substances

but coloured to correspond to the four directions

These are expressions of the four immeasurable qualities: equanimity

This volume is indispensable reading for everyone who is dedicated to understanding severance and putting this powerful teaching into practice

Transcending Madness prayer-wheels The Medicine Buddha is surroundedBy Chogyam Trungpa The Tibetan word bardo is usually associated with life after death. Here, Chgyam Trungpa discusses bardo in a very different sense: as the peak experience of any given moment. Our experience of the present moment is always colored by one of six psychological states: the god realm (bliss), the jealous god realm (jealousy and lust for entertainment), the human realm (passion and desire), the animal realm (ignorance), the hungry ghost