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  • Raymond Lam

Mahakala, Tangut and Mongol Deity of Ritual Warfare: The Guardian of Western Xia

Posted on May 4, 2025May 4, 2025by Teahouse

Kublai Khan and Marco Polo continue their discussion about Mahakala and the tantric deity’s relationship with the Tanguts

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  • Raymond Lam

A Tantric Story: The Visvavajra Presence at Dunhuang and Sino-Tibetan Esotericism

Posted on April 14, 2024April 15, 2024by Teahouse

Dr. Shella Li Shen reveals the Sino-Tibetan esoteric heritage of Dunhuang, from its period of Tibetan rule to the Tangut Empire

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  • Raymond Lam

Niraj Kumar and the Kalachakra Tantra: A Life’s Work

Posted on July 11, 2023July 11, 2023by Teahouse

Niraj Kumar’s new translation and commentary on the Kalachakra Tantra offers a new perspective on the origins and nature of the tantra

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  • Raymond Lam

A New Translation and Commentary of the Kalachakra Tantra by Niraj Kumar

Posted on July 25, 2022July 25, 2022by Teahouse

A new translation of the Kalachakra Tantra from Niraj Kumar

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Mystery of Dakini’s Skull Cup

Posted on November 28, 2017November 30, 2017by Teahouse

According to tantra, the human body is perceived as a sacred temple in which all higher forces and the whole truth about existence are present. One of those truths, fundamental to Vajrayana Buddhism, is impermanence (Skt. anitya, Tib. mitagpa). The visual representation of the transience of the human body, and hence the Buddhist idea of […]

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Spontaneous Union

Posted on September 26, 2017December 1, 2017by Teahouse

Everything in nature is conditioned by the fundamental principle expressed in the unity of opposites: yin-yang. The fusion of the male and the female is a creative act and the source of life. Even though Buddha Nature is beyond genders, Buddhist iconography uses sexual polarity to symbolize the Mahayana and Vajrayana concept of the union […]

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  • Padma Drolma

Infinite Guru

Posted on August 23, 2017July 28, 2019by Teahouse

Nothing will remain It will be brief Still I want you inside The minutes I serve you In the water mirror I offer you Endless Mandalas Until the meeting of the suns I touch the unreal It makes me smile And sigh The stream goes by I weave my fingers into yours One Last Time […]

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Dharmodaya: The Source of Reality

Posted on June 7, 2017December 1, 2017by Teahouse

Lyudmila Klasanova The six-pointed geometric star or hexagram is considered one of the most ancient spiritual symbols in the world and has a deep meaning in Tantric Buddhism. In Vajrayana it appears as ritual diagram and symbolic emblem of the female deity Vajrayogini (Tib. Dorje Naljorma) who is emanation of the perfect state of Buddha […]

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