Venus and Her Lover by Becca Tzigany

Venus and Her Lover by Becca Tzigany

Author:Becca Tzigany [Tzigany, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780974313832
Publisher: Yab/Yum Original Tantric Art
Published: 2019-09-25T04:00:00+00:00


When James got into friendly conversation at a school of Tibetan thangka painters, aside from sharing their artist stories, we learned that the stupa is actually a three-dimensional representation of the mandala. Wow! Suddenly my concept of the mandala leaped off its flat surface and loomed, larger than life, as a huge round mansion with grand halls and dark corners, wherein dwelled distinctly different Buddhas with whom I could converse about my issues, trials, and realizations. Or the mandala could be a whole planet, with diverse regions that shaped the perceptions and creations of the people dwelling there, and by my pilgrimages there, I could pull together all the parts of myself – the trusting, fearful, egotistical, compassionate, joyful, angry, and so on... To give just one example from the Buddhist Tantra mandala: in the north sat the Amoghasiddhi Buddha making love with the goddess Tara. Their color was green, and the attendant creature was the garuda bird. In the element of air, they were dealing with the concept of jealousy – you could say they were “green with jealousy” – and their spiritual lovemaking was aided by the presence of the dakini Rajaki (Vajri) whose talents of strength, mental concentration, and spiritual intuition, would allow them to attain an all-pervading wisdom.

Presented simply, here are the five elements that the Vajrayana (Tibetan/Tantric) Buddhists built into the Swayambhunath Stupa:

The central dome houses the Vairocana dhyani Buddha (with consort White Tara), whose symbol is the wheel and whose sound is Om. His color is white and he embodies space, or the void or aether, from wherein emerges the impulse of the Creative Force. It is his eyes that are painted, as if with a huge eyeliner brush, on the four sides of the golden structure above the dome; they send forth waves of wisdom and compassion to the four directions, to finally conquer the world’s delusions. Below his eyes is a squiggle where his nose would be, in the form of the Nepali number one, representing unity.

In the east sits the blue Buddha Aksobhya and consort Locanā, whose element is water (or sky), and through which anger and hate can be conquered. With nondualist wisdom and humility, consciousness is realized.

On the south face is the shrine of the yellow Buddha Ratnasambhava and consort Mamaki. With their grounding energy of earth, egoism, pride, greed, and emotional attachments can give way to equanimity and generosity.

The western niche holds the red Buddha Amitabha and consort Pandara; their fire can burn away attachments. Selfishness is defeated through inquisitive perception and meditation.

In the north sits the green Buddha Amoghasiddhi and consort Green Tara, who use the power of air to prevail over jealousy and envy. The power to pacify and accomplish releases the mind from rigid concepts and opens the way to fearlessness.



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