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Buddhist : Tibetan
19th Century

About Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol)

Timeline (1781 - 1851)

 Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol), Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Tibetan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

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English version by
Matthieu Ricard

Original Language
Tibetan
The mind has neither color nor form.

Themes
  Womb
 
 
 
 

 

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

The mind has neither color nor form.
Search for it: it is nowhere.
Emptiness!

 

 

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

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