Buddha Painting - Lama Tsongkhapa - Ganden Hlagyama by Ben Christian

Lama Tsongkhapa - Ganden Hlagyama is a painting by Ben Christian which was uploaded on March 20th, 2014.

Lama Tsongkhapa - Ganden Hlagyama

Ganden Hlagyama image of Lama Tsongkhapa. ... more

by Ben Christian

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Title

Lama Tsongkhapa - Ganden Hlagyama

Artist

Ben Christian

Medium

Painting - Digital

Description

Ganden Hlagyama image of Lama Tsongkhapa.

Illustrated is the central figure of Lama Tsongkhapa surrounded by the Migtsema mantra. The image is supposed to reflect what is felt when we understand the words of the famous prayer...

Come I pray and sit my root Lama,
Shining and precious upon the lotus at my heart.
Take me after you in great kindness
Stay there never moving.
Until the Buddha's essence (is reached).

The indefinable space where the ocean becomes the sky is like a tactile inner metaphor for the emptiness that is suggested in the words, "Buddha's Essence". This is a kind of inner Buddha that we can meet with our mind, it is Buddha Nature, and the Lama takes us there. Yet at the same time, it is something that could never be met, like finding the place where ocean becomes the sky. Lama Tsongkhapa taught this perfectly when He defined the middle way through a lifetime of teachings and practice.

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March 20th, 2014