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Sachen
Kung sNyingpo
Collection:
Matho Monastery
School
of art: Sman-bris
18th
century
Sachen
He
lived in early 11th century A.D. in Sakya in Tibet. HIs father, Khon
Kanchok Rgyal Po, was a mystic saint who received secret instruction of
Hevajra from Dog Mi Lotsa and put it into practice. When Sachen was very
young, Parilotsava was invited to be his tutor. Lotsava made him meditate
to receive blessings from Maµju¿r¢. During the meditation, Sachen got
the vision of Maµju¿r¢ who blessed him. Moreover, Maµju¿r¢ taught
him a secret doctrine in very short verses which contain the theme of both
wisdom and method.
As
a result, his intellect became very sharp. Thereafter, he studied deeply
under the supervision of Parilotsava and became an eminent scholar and a
mystic saint whose fame had spread throughout Tibet. Lani bras is an
essence of Sakya pa order which is traced back to. N¡g¡rjuna. Lam bras
is the wisdom of non-duality of the clear light and voidness. The cosmic
consciousness is the clear light, everything is reflected in it and at the
same time its nature is empty of inherent existence. The clear light and
void can never be taken apart, because of their being the ultimate nature
of the cosmic consciousness. The wisdom of such a reality is the true path
to the perfection.
In
the central figure is Sachen whose left hand holds a lotus flower. In the
upper left corner is Hevajra and in the right Mah¡siddha Vir£pa and on
the top is Vajradhara. He is flanked by his elder son, Sonam Tsemo and
younger son Takpa Gyaltson on right and left respectively. In the lower
right is Kunga Gyaltsan and on the left Dogon Phagspa, in the lower corner
is Ngorchen and in the left corner is Chardhen. At the bottom is Mah¡k¡la
who has two hands.
