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Buddhist : Tibetan

19th Century

About Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol)

Timeline (1781 - 1851)

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English version by
Matthieu Ricard

Original Language
Tibetan

One must remain in the vastness,

Themes

Mountain

Sky

Recommended Books

	Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat, by Shabkar
	The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin, by Shabkar Tsogdruk Rongdrol / Translated by Matthieu Ricard
	Rainbows Appear: Tibetan Poems of Shabkar, Translated by Matthieu Ricard
	Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Buddhist Poems of Insight & Awakening, Translated by Thupten Jinpa / Translated by Jas Elsner

One must remain in the vastness,
     alert and lucid,
Letting one's gaze encompass
     the infinity of the sky,
As though seated on the summit
     of a mountain open
     to all the horizons.

-- from Rainbows Appear: Tibetan Poems of Shabkar, Translated by Matthieu Ricard

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