Fact about KDY published on 19 May 2009

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Dear All,

 

Please refer to following post by relics_antiques before it may get deleted, I

have also reproduced the contents below. I am interested in only getting facts,

nothing else. I have no interest in fake or stolen artifacts. I am not

interested whether research students get thier A++ from stolen unkown artifacts.

 

 

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" It is unfortunate that none of you know the significance of the terma called

the Kailash Dhanaraksha Yantra Talisman. I am a student of Dakini and Pali

manuscripts at the Centre for Tibetan Studies, and have heard of some of these

termas that were hidden by Guru Rinpoche. The Kailash dhanaraksha Yantra was

first created by Padmasambhava. First, who was Padmasambhava?

 

Known as The Lotus Born, he belonged to a monarchic Brahmin family. He is said

to have transmitted Tantric Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet in the 8th century. In

Tibet he is better known as Guru Rinpoche ( " Precious Master " ) or Lopon Rinpoche,

and followers of the Nyingma school regard him as the second Buddha. He is

further considered an avatar of Buddha Amitabha and traditionally respected as

" the second Buddha " . He is also referred to as Orgyen Guru , Padmakara and

Saroruha Vajra. He was found by the Brahmin family floating in Lake Dhanakosha,

in the kingdom of Uddiyana, which is actually the Swat Valley of ancient India

in present-day Pakistan where today the Taliban have made a stronghold.

 

In Bhutan he created the famous Paro Taktsang or " Tiger's Nest " monastery built

on a sheer cliff wall about 500m above the floor of Paro valley.

 

Padmasambhava also hid a number of religious treasures or termas in lakes,

caves, fields and forests of the Himalayan region to be found and interpreted by

future tertöns or " spiritual treasure-finders " . According to Tibetan tradition,

the Bardo Thodol (commonly referred to as the Tibetan Book of the Dead) was

among these hidden treasures, subsequently discovered by a Tibetan terton, Karma

Lingpa. The Kailash Dhanaraksha Yantra, the circular talisman terma was first

found by Nyangral Nyima Oser, a terton monk at Paro Taktshang strung around a

tiger's neck. It brought unaccountable wealth and prestige to the monastery and

the kingdom. In Tibetan, a Tertöns is one who finds a terma.

 

Padmasambhava often meditated on the slope of the Kailash mountain. Of

incredible geomantic power Kailash (Sanskrit) or Kang Rinpoche (Tibetan) marks

the center of the Earth for Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and Bon. To Buddhists it is

the resting place of Demchok, the wrathful manifestation of Buddha Sakyamuni. To

Hindus it is the dwelling place of Shiva, the destroyer and according to the

Sanskrit tradition of Vishnu Purana it is a representation of Mount Meru, the

cosmic mountain at the center of the universe. It is the place where the founder

of Bon descended to Earth and where the founder of the Jain faith was

spiritually awakened.

 

Padmasambhava was of unnaturally advanced age when he led the greatest religious

seers of the time to perform the great yagna on the Kailash mountain.

Manuscripts related to the creation of the round brass plaque called the Kailash

Dhanaraksha Yantra Talisman was originally written in Dakini script. Recently

some manuscripts were found hidden in the roof of the Beijing Palace in the

Forbidden city by restorers. It is still not understood what these Tibetan texts

were doing hidden beneath the roof of a palace in China.

 

References to this great yagna can also be found in Pali and other ancient

languages. All declare the Kailash Dhanaraksha Yantra as a round brass talisman

with a loop to hang it around one's neck as a locket. It has no owner and leaves

a person's possession at its own free will. When it departs, it always leaves

the last possessor eternally wealthy both in self-realization and material

wealth.

 

I would suggest to everyone to read available English translations of the Bardo

Thodol, about tertöns, about terma, about Bon and about Padmasambhava himself to

understand the true value and truth about this 1200 year old relic. "