Sunday, September 2, 2007

Kopan Monastery is a Gelugpa center, which is a different lineage from the one I practice. This is statue of one of the Twenty-One Taras they had there. For those familiar with the Nyingma tradition, you might notice that this version of Tara has the symbol in the right hand instead of the left. Everywhere I go, I encounter different versions of the 21 Taras. Some have lotuses in their hands, but no symbols on the lotus.

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