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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Pema Gyalpo thangka
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:17:22 -0700
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Sky Burial! Of course. I should have thought of that.

I have to say, for a person grow up with Chinese sensibilities, it's a
concept hard to swallow :-)


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:15 PM, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Thanks for looking!
>
> You are correct, Pema Gyalpo, is sitting on a tiger skin.  Not a god, he is
> a person, Padmasambhava, who in this thangka is manifesting as Pema Gylapo.
>
> In http://thangkas.csd.net/dorjetrollo.html Padmasambhava is manifesting
> as Dorje Trollo and riding a tiger.
>
> Impermanance: once-living human, now corpse is being eaten by a jackal and
> white eagle; Tibetans would be familiar with the sight.  Sky burial:
>
> http://mbvtravel.com/burials-in-tibet-not-for-sensitive-souls
> http://boon-tibet05.blogspot.com/2007/11/langmusi-gansu.html
>
> As Pema Gyalpo, Padmasambhava was banished from the palace for killing a
> minister's wife and daughter, maybe a accident, but he was more precise 
> than
> that.  Having no place to live, he went to live in the most unlivable 
> place,
> a charnel ground.
>
> I think that the furry beast is a yak.
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
>
> On 10/13/2010 1:35 AM, Richard Man wrote:
>
>> Is the person/god on the right sitting on a tiger skin? And what's story
>> of
>> the dismembered person on the bottom? A demon? And what kind of beast is
>> overlooking her?
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:09 PM, John Nebel<john.nebel at csdco.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>  http://thangkas.csd.net/pemagyalpo.html
>>>
>>> clickable for detail
>>>
>>> C&C welcome
>>>
>>> John
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