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Visit of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche to
Namdroling Monastery during the Manjushri abhishekas
March 2005
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Many of Namdroling's 150 tulkus and khenpos, as well as some 2,000 monks, nuns and lay people, attended the two days of abhishekas. As part of the opening mandala offering, they threw white khatas forward to be offered. The small monk in the lower right of this photo is standing up to throw his. The 60-foot gilded shine statues are of Shakyamuni Buddha, flanked on the left by Padmasambhava and on the right by Amitayus, the Buddha of Infinite Life.
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Before the abhishekas were conferred, the Sakyong offered prostrations and khatas in the three inner shrine rooms of the newly built Sangdopalri Temple. These contain, in ascending order through the temple's three upper stories, the manifestations of Guru Rinpoche in the three kayas -- as Padmasambhava in the nirmankaya, as the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in the sambhoghakaya, and as the buddha Akshobya in the dharmakaya.
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This beautifully ornamented rupa of Padmasambhava is in the nirmanakaya level of the Sangdopalri Temple. The surrounding wall paintings depict scenes from his life and his eight manifestations as he subdued obstacles to the transplantation of the buddhadharma to Tibet.
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Detail from the roof of the Sangdopalri Temple. The temple is constructed as a three dimensional, tiered mandala of the Copper Coloured Mountain of Padmasambhava. It arises from a charnel ground -- sculpted on the inner face of the temple's surrounding walls -- filled with carnage inflicted on countless beings by demons, rakshasas and wild animals.
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