[OPEN] Ju Mipham's Supplication of the Eight Vidyadharas of the Noble Land

Supplication to the Eight Vidyadharas of the Noble Land

with Lama Fede

Saturday, November 28 · 10:00am (Buenos Aires, UTC-3) · Online

Before Vajrayana was a tradition, it was a handful of people in India who got their hands on the real thing and refused to let it die. The Eight Vidyadharas, “holders of awareness,” are the masters through whom the great tantric transmissions of the Nyingma passed into the human world. This is the root of the lineage, and Ju Mipham wrote a prayer to them.

Mipham was never a poet who happened to be a scholar. He was a scholar whose verses worked. In this teaching, Lama Fede reads his Supplication to the Eight Vidyadharas of the Noble Land (from volume 5 of his collected works) line by line: who each master is, what each one stands for, and why a supplication is a practice, not just a poem.…