Chapter 2.8 - Origin Seen in Rock-cut Litanies in India

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The Way of the White Clouds [by Anagarika Lama Govinda]

A strange contrast, however, was provided by innumerable whitewashed chorten, religious monuments which have their origin in the ancient stupas of India, consisting of a cubic base, a hemispherical or vase-shaped middle piece, and a long conical spire of brick-red disks, crowned with the symbols of sun and moon. Millions of such monuments are scattered all over Tibet....

Read full contents: Chapter 11 - The Rock Monastery

Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary) [by Gyurme Dorje]

Accordingly, the Litany of the Mames of Manjushri (T. 360) says: A is supreme among all seed-syllables. Emerging from within, the uncreated Sacred syllable of great meaning, The supreme causal basis of all expressions, Illuminates thoroughly all words. And in a sutra: Subhuti, the syllables are ultimately uncreated. They are the esesential nature of A. That which is the essential nature of A is the nature of mind. It genuinely transcends all things, substantial and non-substantial....

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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms [by Fa-Hien]

There is a tradition that when Buddha came to North India, he came at once to this country, and that here he left a print of his foot, which is long or short according to the ideas of the beholder (on the subject). It exists, and the same thing is true about it, at the present day. Here also are still to be seen the rock on which he dried his clothes, and the place where he converted the wicked dragon. The rock is fourteen cubits high, and more than twenty broad, with one side of it smooth....

Read full contents: Chapter VIII - Woo-chang, Or Udyana

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