Hand-Painted Wooden Stupa 9" Ngondro The back cover contains the

The back cover contains the following text: The Mandala of Comic Time represents the primary movement of the universe

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An anthology of Japanese Rinzai Zen from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries

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Hand-Painted Wooden Stupa 9" Ngondro The back cover contains theLovely 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