Guru Padmasambhava 

Padmasambhava the lotus born Padmasambhava helped establish Buddhism in Tibet in the early 8th century by exercising his Tantric powers to subdue demons. Believed to be an emanation of Amitabha Buddha, he is said to have emerged from a lotus blossom. After his time on earth, he withdrew to the Copper Mountain Paradise, home to the cannibal trolls, where he reigns as the second Buddha. The crossed vajras on his trident signify the union of wisdom and compassion, and the trident and three skulls are the symbols for mastery of the three subtle channels of Tantric physiology.

The way of Tantric Buddhism arose in the 6th century CE, based on texts known as Tantras. It uses meditation, ritual, symbolism and magic. Although magic was not part of the Buddha’s teaching, tantric practitioners regard Tantra as a faster way of attaining the Buddha-nature than the path of the bodhisattvas.

The forms of Tantra using mantras, powerful sacred sounds, are known as Mantrayana. Tantra tries to realize the continuous connection between all human states and conditions, including ones that are usually considered polluting or dangerous; all are the Buddha-nature, if perceived and experienced rightly. Thus hatred and revulsion, which are the oppositions of love and desire, dissolve in the realisation that all states are equally undifferentiated Buddha-nature and are without real characteristics of their own. Visualising the Buddhas or Bodhisattvas, and so attaining union with them, is a basic form of devotion. 

 

Druk Tuljuks Dho Snagling project is about building a 108-feet high copper-gilded statue of Guru Padmasambhava. Envisioned by His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche this is a dream project of a small community in Ladakh called Skara, which is a part of Leh town – the capital of Ladakh. The project site is a hill with a lot of historical significance. It has traces of a very early human settlement and remnants of a historical Kartse Gonpa monastery that was destroyed by Dogra invaders (1834 – 41).  Kartse Gonpa is a branch of 17th century famous monastery of Hemis. Two old shrines and a more recently built prayer hall (Nyeneskhang) exist here today. Skara community volunteered to build the prayer hall in 2002-04 and a 15-day Karpo Chogyat prayer is held here every year in the holy month of Tangpo (first month of Tibetan calendar).

As we say in Ladakh Chutik Sagspa Gyamtso (every drop forms an ocean), your contribution will matter the most. For peace and compassion. Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum! 

 

During the initial years of building this prayer hall members of the community also wished for something that was spontaneously sensed by Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche and His Holiness proclaimed building of the statue of Padmasambhava on Kartse Gonpa hill having the most spectacular view of entire Leh valley and beyond. His Holiness entrusted this highly ambitious and noble project into the hands of young and dynamic Khamtak Rinpoche. His Eminence Khamtak Rinpoche was earlier made abbot of Chumathang monastery in Rong valley of eastern Ladakh soon after his completion of over 15-years of rigorous study and practice of Buddhism from reputed institutions in north-eastern India and Bhutan. On November 6, 2016 Khamtak Rinpoche formally launched this project, after many deliberations, at Skara community hall in presence of all the members. Donations from within the community gave a good kickstart to the project in ground preparatory works at the construction site. It has been more than five years since then and the stage is all set now for structural works for installation of the statue being sculpted by most skillful artisans from Nepal. This is the most crucial stage where the project demands the greatest support to accomplish the dream of having the grand statue of Guru Padmasambhava in a place where it should be for many altruistic reasons. The project essentially has infinite spiritual benefits and once finished has great potential for generating tremendous employment opportunities for the local communities as it can attract hundreds and thousands of visitors including tourists. More importantly, a community of monks and yogis shall flourish here to carry out the most precious tradition of Vajrayana Buddhist practices founded by the 8th century Buddhist saint-scholar from ancient Nalanda university of India Guru Padmasambhava, who introduced Buddhism in Tibet.

The very imagining of such a dream has unfathomable merits, one can understand how blessed a passerby shall feel under the wisdom gaze of Guru Rinpoche seated grand on Kartse Hill. In addition to this multi-crore project Rinpoche is also looking after Chumathang monastery in the Rong valley of eastern Ladakh, since his take over as the abbot several new initiatives have been taken including the construction of the Thousand-Buddhas large spacious temple in the middle of this 80-household village on the Indus River bank. The work on this project has already started and statues of thousand Buddhas have already been brought into Ladakh. Both the Chumathang community assisted by members from Skara and the monastery have put in great effort with deep faith into this project and their collective wish is to see the temple in its full luster and glory for the immeasurable merits and blessings of having such a distinct temple in Ladakh for the first time in its history. Any support towards these two ongoing projects are keenly sought for universal peace and benefits to all sentient beings. 

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