The Copper-Colored Mountain stupa Yet despite the widespread practice

Yet despite the widespread practice of terma

In this wide and varied collection of essays

all the different classes of spirits become upset

author of The Intelligent Heart

one of the world's leading scholars on Gendun Chopel

The Copper-Colored Mountain stupa Yet despite the widespread practiceThe Copper Colored Mountain is the pure land of Padmasambhava, the Indian master who brought Buddhism to Tibet. One way in which Buddhist practitioners may be reborn in this pure land is by making aspiration prayers. This work includes a translation of one of the most famous of these aspiration prayers, composed by Jigme Lingpa, and the authors verse by verse analysis of it. Drawing on both traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarly texts,