The Copper-Colored Mountain Vendor_Kumar Lama Matricheta's Letter to the Great

Matricheta's Letter to the Great King Kanishka written in his old age to a young ruler who will become the greatest of the Kusana kings

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The book offers a compelling vision for Buddhism in the twenty-first century by some of the most erudite

Among his disciples were some of the greatest masters of our time

The Copper-Colored Mountain Vendor_Kumar Lama Matricheta's Letter to the GreatThe Copper Colored Mountain is the pure land of Padmasambhava, the Indian master who brought Buddhism to Tibet. One way in which Buddhist practitioners may be reborn in this pure land is by making aspiration prayers. This work includes a translation of one of the most famous of these aspiration prayers, composed by Jigme Lingpa, and the authors verse by verse analysis of it. Drawing on both traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarly texts,