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2009-03-22

The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan

"East of Mount Everest and bordered by India and Tibet, Bhutan is a remote and mystical kingdom, considered by many as “The Last Shangri-La.” A sovereign nation that has maintained its cultural, artistic, and religious traditions intact, it is one of the few countries in Asia never colonized by its neighbors or Western powers.

The first exhibition of its kind, The Dragon's Gift provides an exceptionally rare opportunity to view some of the most sacred and beloved Buddhist arts in Bhutan. "

http://www.asianart.org/bhutan.htm

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4 Modes of Liberation - Patrul Rinpoche

"
CHERDROL - Liberation through bare attention.

Liberation by way of recognizing thoughts.
"Like meeting a person whom we have met before."


SHARDROL - Liberation as soon as it arises.

Thoughts liberate themselves as soon as they arise.
Thoughts are immediately carried along by their own momentum of arising into the natural state and liberated.
"Like a snake unknotting itself from it's coils."
"Like drawing on the surface of water, the picture disintegrates as soon as it is drawn."


RANGDROL - Self-liberation.

Liberation is automatic, spontaneous, effortless, instantaneous.
Thoughts arise into their immediate and spontaneous liberation; their very arising is their liberating.
By-itself-liberating.
"Like a thief entering an empty house and finding there is nothing to steal."


YAYDROL - Primordial Liberation.

Rigpa itself, which has never been otherwise than totally liberated from the very beginning.


These are taken from Patrul Rinpoche's commentary on the 3 Vital Points of Garab Dorje (Glimpse, Maturation and Stabilzation). Garab Dorje was/is the first Nirmanakaya or living master of the Dzogchen Lineage."