1/2 Radiant Aspiration: a commentary on CR Lama's Butterlamp Prayer. [RU] Zoom 03.2023

18 and 19 March 2023. James Low's teaching this weekend based on the book "Radiant Aspiration".

Radiant aspiration was written by C.R. Lama while in retreat in Tso Pema in India and arose as a gesture of love and longing for his teacher, Tulku Tsorlo whom he had to leave in Tibet. While alive he offered 100,000 butterlamps each year with his disciples and this practice continues.

The book offers a clear introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist understanding of the nature of existence, exploring how to free ourselves from all that limits us. It provides a translation of a beautiful prayer which employs the symbolism of the ritual offering of butterlamps, where light is seen as the basis of the nonduality of all experience. Radiant Aspiration contains the full ritual text so that readers can engage in its practice if they so choose. There is an extensive commentary focusing on the development of wisdom and compassion making the traditional text fully relevant to the modern reader.

German Lichter der Weisheit: das Butterlampen-Wunchgebet von Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche. Translated by Heike Drinkuth (Wandel Verlag, 2014) ISBN 978-3942380065. You can buy it from Wandel Verlag:

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2:43:48 Sunday

Russian translation: Olga Selivanova and Ivan Romanchenko