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Guru Pema Here and Now: The Mythology of the Lotus-Born
By: Keith Dowman

Guru Pema Here and Now
 
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Translator: Keith Dowman
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781507662953
Publication Date: 2015


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Guru Pema is Padmasambhava, the wandering tantric yogin from Orgyen who became Tibet�s Great Guru. To his disciples he was the Lotus Born and, later, to his followers, he became Guru Rimpoche, the precious guru-buddha who resides in our heart center. Identical to the nature of mind, he emanates tulkus to demonstrate Dzogchen, the Great Perfection. In this ground-breaking work Keith Dowman brings the guru-myths and the means of invoking Guru Pema together with an analysis provides immediate contemporary meaning. Some readers will consider the mythic truths revealed in the lives of Guru Rimpoche described in the Zanglingma, a treasure-text of Nyangrel Nyima Wozer, as the core of the book. Others will look at The Seven Line Prayer as the essence because Mipham Namgyel�s commentary provides the secret means to personal attainment of union with Guru Rimpoche. In a similar way that Mipham elucidates the hidden meanings of The Seven Line Prayer, exposing the treasures that have lain hidden in a common prayer that everyone knows and hitherto has taken at face value, so the extensive introduction written in Keith Dowman�s inimitable style and perspective, brings Padmasambhava into the twenty-first century and actually verbalizes what we have hitherto only surmized. The guru-myths are presented as code describing the manner in which Guru Pema�s enlightenment works for us and how his activity works for the sake of others. The stories of the Guru�s life are thus paradigmatic, exemplary models, to be emulated by his yogin-followers and a source of inspiration and faith for his devotees. At the same time the narrative of the Zanglingma describes the events in Padmasambhava�s life that comprise the early history of Buddhist Tibet but this is secondary to the main theme � an exposition of Dzogchen vision, meditation and action. The book is illustrated by reproductions of the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoche�s exceptional blockprints of the �Eight Names of the Guru�, extensive appendixes provide historical background, and glossaries and an annotated index serves instead of notes.

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