Guru Padmasambhava Thangka Painting

Guru Padmasambhava Thangka Painting

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Guru Padmasambhava Thangka Painting is handpainted in Nepal. Padmasambhava means The Lotus-Born who was a historical teacher.

He was a renowned scholar, meditator, and magician, and his mantra suggests his rich and diverse nature. Padmasambhava was a sage guru from Oddiyana who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighboring countries in the 8th century.

In those lands he is better known as Guru Rinpoche (“Precious Guru”) or Lopon Rinpoche, or, simply, Padum in Tibet, where followers of the Nyingma school regard him as the second Buddha. He said: “My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra.

My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I consume concepts of duality as my diet. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.”

Mantra of Padmasambhava

The mantra of  Padmasambhava is Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum.

Meaning of the Mantra
  • Om is the perfect splendor and richness of sambhogakaya
  • Ah is the total unchanging perfection of dharmakaya, the manifest body of absolute reality
  • Hung perfects the presence of Guru Padmasambhava as the nirmanakaya, the manifest body of emanation
  • Vajra perfects all the Heruka deities of the mandalas
  • Guru refers to the root and transmission gurus and the holders of intrinsic awareness
  • The Padma perfects the assembly of dakas and dakinis
  • Siddhi is the life force of all the wealth deities and the guardians of the treasure teachings
  • Hung is the life force of the Dharmapala, the protective deities

Iconography of Padmasambhava

The khatvanga, a danda with three severed heads denoting the three kayas (the three bodies of a Buddha: the dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya), crowned by a trishula and dressed in a sash of the Himalayan Rainbow or Five Pure Lights of the Mahabhuta is a particular divine attribute of Padmasambhava and intrinsic to his iconographic representation.
His two eyes are wide open in a piercing gaze. On his body, he wears a white vajra undergarment and, on top of this, in layers, a red robe, a dark blue mantrayana tunic, a red monastic shawl decorated with a golden flower pattern, and a maroon cloak of silk brocade. He has one face and two hands.
In his right hand, he holds a five-pronged vajra at his heart; and in his left, which rests in the gesture of equanimity, he holds a skull-cup in the center of which is a vase of longevity filled with the nectar of deathless wisdom.
Cradled in his left arm is a three-pointed khatvanga representing the consort Mandarava. On his head, he wears a five-petalled lotus hat. Wrathful and smiling, he blazes magnificently with the splendor of the major and minor marks. He is seated with his two feet in the royal posture.

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