File:6 dzogchen rinpoche.jpg

From Rangjung Yeshe Wiki - Dharma Dictionary
Revision as of 20:32, 8 November 2006 by Rangjung (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

6_dzogchen_rinpoche.jpg(266 × 305 pixels, file size: 13 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Oḍḍiyāna (o rgyan)

  • Oḍḍiyāna , the birth-place of Padmākara, is the name of an ancient kingdom, probably situated in the remote north-west of the Indian subcontinent, where a large corpus of tantric literature is said to have been propagated in the human world for the first time. The land of Oḍḍiyāna is associated with a number of great accomplished masters (siddha) including Padmasambhava, Kambalapāda, and Līlāvajra in particular. On the basis of traditional Tibetan pilgrimage accounts, such as that writen by O-rgyan-pa Rin-chen-dpal, modern writers identify Oḍḍiyāna as having been in the region of the Swat valley in Pakistan. The Tibetan form of Oḍḍiyāna, O-rgyan, is also by extension a name for Padmasambhava himself. GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:56, 28 July 2006Thumbnail for version as of 20:56, 28 July 2006266 × 305 (13 KB)Bj Lhundrup (talk | contribs)

The following page uses this file:

Metadata