Tibet: Earthly Paradise

by Sham Misri, Makhan Babu

Tibet had strange customs, the custom of eating raw flesh in Tibet. The mouth so huge, that it would swallow at once a man as a whole. The teeth are immense has been documented by Marco Polo. Tibetan Buddhism has a legend of how Buddhism spread to While a king was resting on the summit of a palace. He suddenly found several Buddhist treasures falling from the sky. The King had no idea what they were for; a mysterious voice from the sky informed him …. Padmasambhava a historical figure believed to have appeared miraculously in the blossom of a lotus in the lake called "Ocean of Milk" located on the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier. Padmasambhava is commonly referred to in Tibet as the second Buddha. Legend relates how Padmasambhava converted the Tibetan people to Buddhism by subduing their most aggressive local deities, and performing magical feats, such as driving wooden daggers through solid rock and flying on the rays of the sun. Padmasambhava‘s revealed scrolls speak much about the hidden lands. “In its true state the mind is empty, timeless, not realizable as a separate entity, but as a unity of all things, yet not composed of them...” The Beyul that Padmasambhava established in Tibet is not a literal imaginary place, but a paradise for Buddhist practices. A traveller’s tale tells how people attempted to discover the earthly paradise as revealed by Padmasambhava. It is a story about how the travellers climbed the most difficult terrain, what they saw, how the spirit medium travelled, and inciting local spirits to guide them through the perilous terrain. Literature encourages us to think. It helps us dream. Religion is full of characters, stories, history, reality and new ideas. Utmost care has been taken while compiling the book.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 17, 2013