ode to bhutan-mahakala, the protecter
BEST SEEN LARGE
PRELUDE TO AN ADVENTUROUS HOLIDAY
inspired by our upcoming trip to asia. we are leaving 13 october 2016 and will return early december....just us two, our backpacks....and our sense of adventure.
we will visit china, tibet, nepal, bhutan, india, burma, and japan.
pastel on wood: water soluble pastels, collage, sharpie ink pen
18" X 12"
jennifer beinhacker
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge
The mahakalas literally black grandparents belong to a class of deities very special Vajrayana: protectors of education, or Dharmapalas in Sanskrit.
As much this path of Vajrayana lamas are the source of blessings and yidams one of fulfillment as the Dharmapalas symbolize the source of the awakened Buddha activities.Therefore, they are also called protectors of primordial wisdom. In essence, they are emptiness and dynamism is compassion. And dynamism of the ultimate nature can be expressed in four distinct bias: peace, growth, power and intensity. Where peaceful means and reason alone are no longer sufficient or adapted to a situation, even stronger coercive means may be employed. This is what we find, again only on a symbolic level, these wrathful manifestations of enlightened mind. In the manner in fact the severity can be expressed, if conditions allow, by parents of their young child and only for his own good.
The different aspects of mahakalas "Bernakchèn, that the black cloak" , "Tchadroukpa, the 6-arm" , or "Goeunkar, white who watches" ) so all have a symbolic genesis that relates to the Buddha, or the one who personifies pure and universal compassion, Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig.
In Vajrayana, meditations and rituals Mahakala are thus very effective both to protect a spiritual transmission lineage of any kind of degeneration and meditating obstacles it may encounter during his meditations, but also to gather the favorable circumstances the practice of Dharma.
ode to bhutan-mahakala, the protecter
BEST SEEN LARGE
PRELUDE TO AN ADVENTUROUS HOLIDAY
inspired by our upcoming trip to asia. we are leaving 13 october 2016 and will return early december....just us two, our backpacks....and our sense of adventure.
we will visit china, tibet, nepal, bhutan, india, burma, and japan.
pastel on wood: water soluble pastels, collage, sharpie ink pen
18" X 12"
jennifer beinhacker
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge
The mahakalas literally black grandparents belong to a class of deities very special Vajrayana: protectors of education, or Dharmapalas in Sanskrit.
As much this path of Vajrayana lamas are the source of blessings and yidams one of fulfillment as the Dharmapalas symbolize the source of the awakened Buddha activities.Therefore, they are also called protectors of primordial wisdom. In essence, they are emptiness and dynamism is compassion. And dynamism of the ultimate nature can be expressed in four distinct bias: peace, growth, power and intensity. Where peaceful means and reason alone are no longer sufficient or adapted to a situation, even stronger coercive means may be employed. This is what we find, again only on a symbolic level, these wrathful manifestations of enlightened mind. In the manner in fact the severity can be expressed, if conditions allow, by parents of their young child and only for his own good.
The different aspects of mahakalas "Bernakchèn, that the black cloak" , "Tchadroukpa, the 6-arm" , or "Goeunkar, white who watches" ) so all have a symbolic genesis that relates to the Buddha, or the one who personifies pure and universal compassion, Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig.
In Vajrayana, meditations and rituals Mahakala are thus very effective both to protect a spiritual transmission lineage of any kind of degeneration and meditating obstacles it may encounter during his meditations, but also to gather the favorable circumstances the practice of Dharma.