The Copper-Colored Mountain Copper The practices of deity

The practices of deity

as if something within were thawing out

Sogyal Rinpoche

accompanied by an essay on Gendun Chopel’s life liberally interspersed with passages from his writings

The Copper-Colored Mountain Copper The practices of deityThe Copper Colored Mountain is the pure land of Padmasambhava, the Indian master who brought Buddhism to Tibet. One way in which Buddhist practitioners may be reborn in this pure land is by making aspiration prayers. This work includes a translation of one of the most famous of these aspiration prayers, composed by Jigme Lingpa, and the authors verse by verse analysis of it. Drawing on both traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarly texts,