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Trulshig Rinpoche. "Ignorant are they who do not recognize the evanescence of worldly things and who tenaciously cleave to them as final realities;..ignorant are those who do not understand that there is no such thin as an ego-soul.. Buddhism, therefore, most emphatically maintains that..we must radically dispel this illusion, this ignorance, this root of evil and suffering in this life." -D. T. Suzuki (outline of Mahayana Buddhism) Chiwang Monastery, Solu region, Nepal.
Sang Sang Rinpoche.
Monks set down the palanquin that Trulshig Rinpoche, a Buddhist lama higly respected by Sherpas and Tibetans, can greet supplicants on the trail.
Sang Sang Rimpoche sits alongside Chiwong’s High Lamas and monks residing mantras and making offerings prior to the dispersement of the Sand Mandala into the spring below Chiwong Monastery. Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Sang Sang Rimpoche leads procession to spring below Chiwong Monastery to castaway the sand of Mandala as offering to Serpent God (Nagas.) Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Sang Sang Rimpoche pours the Sand Mandala into the forest spring, sending the potenized energy to the villagers below. Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Sang Sang Rimpoche leads procession to spring below Chiwong Monastery to castaway the sand of Mandala as offering to Serpent God (Nagas.) Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Chiwong monks transforming the Sand Mandala on the last day of Mani rimdu Festival. Chiwang Monastery, Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Sang Sang Rimpoche uses the dorje (thunderbolt), a sacred ritual object to make the first decisive cut into the Sand Mandala on the last day of the Mani Rimdu Festival. Chiwong Monastery, Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Trulshig Rinpoche.

"Ignorant are they who do not recognize the evanescence of worldly things and who tenaciously cleave to them as final realities;..ignorant are those who do not understand that there is no such thin as an ego-soul.. Buddhism, therefore, most emphatically maintains that..we must radically dispel this illusion, this ignorance, this root of evil and suffering in this life."
-D. T. Suzuki (outline of Mahayana Buddhism)
Chiwang Monastery, Solu region, Nepal.
Trulshig Rinpoche. "Ignorant are they who do not recognize the evanescence of worldly things and who tenaciously cleave to them as final realities;..ignorant are those who do not understand that there is no such thin as an ego-soul.. Buddhism, therefore, most emphatically maintains that..we must radically dispel this illusion, this ignorance, this root of evil and suffering in this life." -D. T. Suzuki (outline of Mahayana Buddhism) Chiwang Monastery, Solu region, Nepal.
Trulshig Rinpoche.

"Ignorant are they who do not recognize the evanescence of worldly things and who tenaciously cleave to them as final realities;..ignorant are those who do not understand that there is no such thin as an ego-soul.. Buddhism, therefore, most emphatically maintains that..we must radically dispel this illusion, this ignorance, this root of evil and suffering in this life."
-D. T. Suzuki (outline of Mahayana Buddhism)
Chiwang Monastery, Solu region, Nepal.
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