The Buddhism of Tibet: Or Lamaism, with Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in Its Relation to Indian Buddhism |
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... Guru Padma - sambhava , a clever member of the then popular Tantrik Yogacārya school , and at that time , it is said , a resident of the great college of Nalanda , the Oxford of Buddhist India . This Buddhist wizard , Guru Padma ...
... Guru Padma - sambhava , a clever member of the then popular Tantrik Yogacārya school , and at that time , it is said , a resident of the great college of Nalanda , the Oxford of Buddhist India . This Buddhist wizard , Guru Padma ...
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... Guru Rin - po - ch'e , or " the precious Guru " ; or simply Lo - pön , the Tibetan equivalent of the Sanskrit " Guru " or " teacher . " He is also called " Ugyan " or Urgyan , " as he was a native of Udyana or Urgyan , correspond- ing ...
... Guru Rin - po - ch'e , or " the precious Guru " ; or simply Lo - pön , the Tibetan equivalent of the Sanskrit " Guru " or " teacher . " He is also called " Ugyan " or Urgyan , " as he was a native of Udyana or Urgyan , correspond- ing ...
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... Guru's most powerful weapons in warring with the demons were the Vajra ( Tibetan , dor - je ) , symbolic of the thunderbolt of Indra ( Jupiter ) , and spells extracted from the Mahayana gospels , by which he shattered his supernatural ...
... Guru's most powerful weapons in warring with the demons were the Vajra ( Tibetan , dor - je ) , symbolic of the thunderbolt of Indra ( Jupiter ) , and spells extracted from the Mahayana gospels , by which he shattered his supernatural ...
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... Guru , assisted by the Indian monk དཔལ་ ལྡན་ ཞི་ བ འཚོ་ Santa - rakshita , instituted there the order of the Lāmas . Santa - rakshita was made the first abbot and laboured there for thirteen years . He now is entitled Acarya Bodhisat ...
... Guru , assisted by the Indian monk དཔལ་ ལྡན་ ཞི་ བ འཚོ་ Santa - rakshita , instituted there the order of the Lāmas . Santa - rakshita was made the first abbot and laboured there for thirteen years . He now is entitled Acarya Bodhisat ...
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... Guru , for all the extant works attributed to him were composed several centuries later by followers of his twenty ... Guru's time , it is evident that his teaching was of that extremely Tantrik and magical type of Mahāyāna Buddhism ...
... Guru , for all the extant works attributed to him were composed several centuries later by followers of his twenty ... Guru's time , it is evident that his teaching was of that extremely Tantrik and magical type of Mahāyāna Buddhism ...
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