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Samdruptse
Samdruptse means wish-fulfilling hill in bhutia dialect and is
situated 7 kms from Namchi, South District Headquarters of
Sikkim, and the 22nd state of India. The tallest statue of
patron saint of Sikkim, Guru PadmaSambhava has been erected in
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Guru
Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche)
Guru Padmasambhava, the Lotus Born is more popularly known as
Guru Rinpoche. He is renowned as the second Buddha throughout
the Himalayan region. His legacy is found throughout the
region and in many caves he used for meditation one can still
see handprints and footprints he impressed into solid rock,
graphic testimony to the extraordinary psychic power of this
Tantric yogi. Guru Padmasambhava is undoubtedly a historical
figure but since his life is so entwined with many legends
which displayed supernatural powers, modern people are likely
difficult to find it too difficult to believe. However, two
basic testaments which proved his existences are:
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VAJRA GURU MANTRA:
The
present Buddhist era is that of the Buddha Sakyamuni who
attained enlightenment or Vajrasana at Bodhgaya and turned the
wheel of Dharma starting at Sarnath and then passed into
parinirvana. Rays of letter (syllable)
"hrhi"
descended
from the heart of Buddha Amitabha into the northwestern land
of Oddiyana and onto the Dhanakosha lake from which Guru
Rinpoche was born in a lotus flower. Guru Rinpoche turned the
wheel of sacred Vajrayana teachings. The Dakinis called out to
him from their hearts forming the Vajra Guru Mantra..............OM
AH
HUNG
VAJRA
GURU
PADMA
SIDDHI
HUM
(meaning: I invoke you, the Vajra Guru Padmasambhava, by your
blessings may you grant us Ordinary and Supreme Spiritual
Fulfilment). He is therefore regarded as the second buddha.
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Padmasambhava,
the Lotus-born —
popularly known as Guru Rinpoche, the Precious Master — is
revered throughout the Himalayan ranges as a Second Buddha.
Invited from India in the eighth century to subjugate the
forces inhibiting the spread of Shakyamuni's teachings, he
managed to transform hitherto hostile powers into guardians
and protectors of the pure dharma and, in the process, left an
indelible mark on the entire Himalayan region.
In quite a literal sense, Guru Rinpoche's mark is to be found
throughout the Himalayan ranges in and around the many caves
he used for meditation. At these sites one can still see
handprints and footprints of the Precious Master impressed
into solid rock, mute testimony to the extraordinary power
this fully accomplished yogi and tantric magician exercised
over the external and internal elements.Now, in the pure depth
of the heavens, Vajrasattva, allowing the Metamorphic Body to
be seen,
seared upon an elephant, holding a golden vajra to his heart
with his right hand, and with his left hand holding a silver
bell at his side, crowned with the ornaments of the Five
Transcendent Buddhas, his body covered with all the perfect
ornaments,
decorated with bones at the
shoulders, at the wrists, and at the ankles, brilliant with
the white glitter of crystal. Perfectly learned in the
Mahayoga, Vajrasattva reveals as a dwelling the celestial
palace of the three Baskets, reveals as gods and goddesses the
whole internal essence, reveals as Mantra the entire murmur of
the words, reveals as enchantments everything which is of
body, speech, and mind. And he sets forth the Tantras of the
Mahayoga, which are, according to the whole classification,
five hundred thousand, and the whole of which forms the
eighteen root Tantras.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
