THE ATLAS OF THE EMPTY THRONE

Padmasambhava

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"The Lotus-Born," the tantric master Tibetan tradition credits with subduing the local spirits and planting Buddhism in Tibet — and with hiding terma, treasure texts, to be discovered when their time came. The Bardo Thödol is one of them.

The founding figure of Tibetan Vajrayāna, and the source of the terma device — a tradition with a formal mechanism for receiving new scripture centuries late.

rhymes with

sephirahnetzach

whyNetzach is endurance and the drive that gets a thing established and keeps it — including a means of transmission designed to outlive its own century.