Intro to Buddhist Iconography

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This talk was in Katoomba in 2011 What the vajra means, what a phurba is | 0.00 Vajrakila Heruka statue, and the motivation behind the buddhist art | 2.00 What is it that makes a yogi? Tapas (austerities) ritual and meditation and group love | 5.08 Freedom from the personal I vs imprisonment Joy and bliss cleansing our karma | 10.27 The 'bell sound of the group serving, what the bell symbolises | 13.30 The makara on the bell and the phurba, what the three blades represent | 15.17 The figure on the top of the phurba (Mahakara) | 16.56 The 5 levels of the phurba | 17.46 The deity of the phurba statue (Vajra kila haruka) | 18.11 The brain is not the organ of thought! | 24.37 How to we transform this matter into light and fire? Your physical body is not the real you! | 31.46 Energy is all that there is | 28.21 Darmapala - protective deities | 29.06 The capala (skull cap) | 32.14 The lotus blossom imagery - it relates to the chakras | 34.57 Back to the symphony analogy | 42.21 Always to help the other is what is symbolised in the buddhist art and what is our service work | 43.00

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