Hand painted Original Large Machig Labdron / Yogini Masterpiece Painting Tibetan Wall hanging Thangka / Thangka / Compassion Meditation

This is an original hand-painted masterpiece Machig Labdron also known as Ahdron Chodron ( in Tibetan) Thangka Painting. She is one of the most prominent female masters and lineage holders in Buddhism. She is a reincarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal and the renowned 11th-century Tibetan tantric Buddhist master and yogini that originated several Tibetan lineages of the Vajrayana practice of Chöd. Machig Labdrön is "a radical synthesis of the Prajnaparamita tradition and tantra guru yoga that 'cuts' through the ego. She was unique in being both a woman and Tibetan, diverging from the traditional norm of males, Indian Buddhist masters. Her life is an inspiring story of a committed practitioner, at-times beggar woman, brilliant teacher, mother, and lineage founder.

Machig’s biography begins with her previous life in which she was an Indian prince turned monk, named Mönlam Drup. Having achieved great spiritual and scholarly accomplishments at an early age,
Mönlam Drup was repeatedly told in visions to go to Tibet to help beings there. At twenty, he entered a cave where he left his body and merged his consciousness with a wrathful blue-black dakini, entering the womb of Machig’s mother in Tibet.

Machig’s conception and birth were accompanied by numerous auspicious dreams and signs; most significant was the appearance of the syllable AH on the baby’s forehead, at the place of her third eye.
Although her mother, Lady Bumcham, initially hid the baby, her father Chökyi Dawa recognized the mark as a sign of a dakini. Supported by her family, Machig developed her spiritual gifts from an early age; by the age of eight, she could recite The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines(also known as the Prajna Paramita sutra). At thirteen, Machig lost her mother and began traveling with her sister to study with several great teachers of her time. She soon became known for her depth of Buddhist scholarly knowledge and extensive recitation skills which outshone many of her own teachers. At around 20, Machig met Kyotön Sonam Lama, a well-respected teacher who had retreated to mountain caves. Knowing of her great accomplishment in reciting the Prajna Paramita sutras, he suggests that she investigate her own mind and move beyond mere recitation and conceptual understanding. During a reading of the chapter on demons, Machig gains a true realization of the inherent meaning. Having cut through ego-fixation, Machig entered a new chapter in her life, deciding to give up the comforts, luxuries, and high society that she had been accustomed to, and turning instead to wearing beggar’s clothes, associating with lepers and other outcasts, wandering aimlessly, sleeping anywhere, eating anything.

Another key story in Machig Labdrön’s life takes place while receiving empowerment from Sonam Lama. In a state of profound samadhi, meditative absorption, Machig floats through the temple walls, out into the air, and finally up into a tree that stands at the edge of a lake belonging to a fierce naga king, or water spirit. Infuriated by her disrespect of his territory, the naga gathers an army of fierce and wild nagas who mount an attack on the naked girl sitting in total equanimity in the tree. Rather than fleeing or attacking, Machig instead turns and offers her body as food to the nagas. Stunned, the nagas vow their allegiance and eternal protection to Machig. This is a seminal story of feeding rather than fighting, the underlying paradigm of Feeding your Demons.

Size: 28-inches x 40-inches( 72 cm x 103 cm)
Material: Handmade Cotton Canvas
Colors Use: Tibetan Canvas Cotton, Dust OF gOLD, Water, and Stone Powder Combination With Tibetan Hide Glue Mixture

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