Rainbow Buddha II

by Jenny Rainbow

Title

Rainbow Buddha II

Artist

Jenny Rainbow

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Photograph - Photography

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There is some story behind this image. I made the photo and started with processing of image and dont know why I started to make it in a weird, whimsical way. When I've got several images I called this series "Rainbow Buddha".. Than went to get some inspiration in internet regarding text for the picture about Buddha and can you imagine - I found that THERE IS RAINBOW BUDDHA!
Here is so me research, I think it would be very interesting for all of you!

In Dzogchen, rainbow body (Tibetan: Jalu or Jalus (Wylie ja' lus) is a level of realization. This may or may not be accompanied by the 'rainbow body phenomenon'. The rainbow body phenomenon has been noted for centuries, including the modern era. Other Vajrayana teachings also mention rainbow body phenomena.

The rainbow body phenomenon is a third person perspective of someone else attaining complete knowledge (rigpa). Knowledge is the absence of delusion regarding the display of the basis.
Rigpa has three wisdoms, two of which are kadag and lhun grub. Kadag (primordial purity) is the Dzogchen view of emptiness. Lhun grub (natural formation) is the Dzogchen view of dependent origination. Throughout Mahayana, emptiness and dependent origination are two sides of the same coin. Kadag deals with tregchod. The lhun grub aspect has to do with esoteric practices, such as (but not limited to) Thodgal, that self-liberate the dependently originated human body into the Sambhogakāya (rainbow body phenomenon). The symbol of Dzogchen is a Tibetan A wrapped in a thigle (see picture to the right). The A represents kadag while the thigle represents lhun grub. The third wisdom, thugs rje (compassion), is the inseparability of the previous two wisdoms.


Tibetan letter "A" inside a thigle. The A represents kadag while the thigle represents lhun grub.
The ultimate fruition of the thodgal practices is a body of pure light, called a rainbow body (Wylie ja lus, pronounced Jalu.) If the four visions of thogal are not completed before death, then at death, from the point of view of an external observer, the following happens: the corpse does not start to decompose, but starts to shrink until it disappears. Usually fingernails, toenails and hair are left behind (see e.g. Togden Urgyen Tendzin, Ayu Khandro, Changchub Dorje.) The attainment of the rainbow body is typically accompanied by the appearance of lights and rainbows.
Some exceptional practitioners such as Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra are held to have realized a higher type of rainbow body without dying. Having completed the four visions before death, the individual focuses on the lights that surround the fingers. His or her physical body self-liberates into a nonmaterial body of light (a Sambhogakaya) with the ability to exist and abide wherever and whenever as pointed by one's compassion.

Sensual passions are your first enemy.
Your second is called Discontent.
Your third is Hunger & Thirst.
Your fourth is called Craving.
Fifth is Sloth & Drowsiness.
Sixth is called Terror.
Your seventh is Uncertainty.
Hypocrisy & Stubbornness, your eighth.
Gains, Offerings, Fame, & Status wrongly gained,
and whoever would praise self
& disparage others.
That, Namuci, is your enemy,
the Dark One's commando force.
A coward can't defeat it,
but one having defeated it
gains bliss.

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November 22nd, 2012

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