Hand-Painted Wooden Stupa 9" Ngondro founder of the unique Mahamudra

founder of the unique Mahamudra Chöd tradition

from whom he received many teachings and transmissions

and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas

He also draws on the works of later masters of the tradition

Hand-Painted Wooden Stupa 9" Ngondro founder of the unique MahamudraLovely hand painted wooden Stupa from Nepal. Stupas are traditional Buddhist statues meant to symbolize the mind of awakening. They are usually filled with relics and blessed items, which are said to help to connect practitioners to the lineage and their own Buddha nature while they circumambulate the stupa (walk around it clockwise). The activity of walking clockwise around a stupa is called "Kora" in Tibetan. This particular stupa, painted white