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REVEALING AND VISITING GURU PADMASAMBHAVA’S OḌḌIYĀNĀ IN JAVA: The actual location of the renowned Oḍḍiyāna ‘land of dakinis’, Ogyenpa, Fa-Xian and other evidential sources, the Guru Padmasambhava birthplace at Lake Rawa Pening, and new Padmasambhava Oḍḍiyāna Lake statue project launched (Indonesia Pilgrimage V)

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"Pakistan’s much touted claim of Swat being the  birthplace of Padmasambhava is based on few western sources of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century who erroneously identified Padmasambhava’s birth in Swat. Few western scholars claimed Swat to be the mythical Oḍḍiyāna, without much deliberation. Such mistaken views need proper correction." " In the Yoga Tantra,… Continue reading REVEALING AND VISITING GURU PADMASAMBHAVA’S OḌḌIYĀNĀ IN JAVA: The actual location of the renowned Oḍḍiyāna ‘land of dakinis’, Ogyenpa, Fa-Xian and other evidential sources, the Guru Padmasambhava birthplace at Lake Rawa Pening, and new Padmasambhava Oḍḍiyāna Lake statue project launched (Indonesia Pilgrimage V)

THE AUTHENTIC ROOTS AND FRUITS OF THE KĀLACAKRA TANTRA AND ITS AUTHOR MAHASIDDHA NĀROPA: Interview with Niraj Kumar (Dakini Conversations, Ep.7)

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  "Kālacakra is infatuated with machines [and numbers]....the goal of Kālacakra is to have a machine-like personality, where there is a cessation of the flow of karma, machines do not expect fruits from their work...We can thus see that before the likes of Da Vinci and Descartes in Europe, a mechanistic view of the human… Continue reading THE AUTHENTIC ROOTS AND FRUITS OF THE KĀLACAKRA TANTRA AND ITS AUTHOR MAHASIDDHA NĀROPA: Interview with Niraj Kumar (Dakini Conversations, Ep.7)