Transcending Madness prayer-wheels The iconographical designs for many

The iconographical designs for many of these figures are based on the drawings of an accomplished Sherpa artist and yogin-practitioner named Gomchen Oleshey (1924-83)

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

serves as a powerful inspiration for practitioners on the path to liberation

The garuda is of great importance in the Dzogchen and Nyingma tradition as it personifies wrathful aspects of Guru Rinpoche and is a guardian of hidden treasures

Transcending Madness prayer-wheels The iconographical designs for manyBy 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