Host Michael Taft speaks with Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton about her latest work with the 21 manifestations of the Goddess Tara, some points of Inexperienced Tara, and particularly the function of imaginative and prescient and visualization in Vajrayana, and Buddhism extra typically. Starting with the considerably damaging function of the eyes in early Buddhist apply, shifting via the Mahayana sutras speaking about “enlightened eyes,” and the “Eye of the Buddha,” and culminating with the rainbow mild practices of Vajrayana and Dzogchen. Matters embrace: Nagarjuna’s imaginative and prescient metaphor of vacancy, the esoteric refined channel from the guts to the eyes, meditation on kasinas, and rather more.
Chandra Easton has taught meditation and yoga since 2001. She has had the great fortune to check with many Tibetan and Western Buddhist academics similar to H.H. Dalai Lama, H.H. Karmapa, Lama Tsultrim Allione, B. Alan Wallace,Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche, and Jennifer Welwood. She is at the moment the Assistant Non secular Director & Head Trainer on the Tara Mandala Retreat Heart. You may study extra about Chandra’s work at:
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