THE VAJRAYOGINI-TARA CAVE AND THE BIRTH CANAL (PDF-2110)

In 2004 Margaret and I were lucky enough to accompany our teacher Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche to Tibet and visit Thrangu Monastery, where he originally came from, along with a group of his retreat lamas and friends. In addition to Tibet (which is a story in itself), Rinpoche wanted to take us to one sacred place in China called Mount Wu-Tai-Shan, where we spent about a week doing puja and practices. In a nutshell, Mt. Wu-Tai-Shan is a series of five mountains arranged in the shape of a die like the number five, with four mountains in a square and one in the middle. Legend has it that it was here that astrology entered this world through the magical blessing of the Bodhisattva Manjushri, who appeared as a youth. Out of his head poured the 84,000 teachings on astrology, which he then gave to mankind. I don’t have space here to tell you the whole story, but I will include a link at the end for those who want to know more.