Are any Bon mudras different from TB ones? The mandala one seems to be the same. However I have not seen finger snapping after mudras in TB, only in Bon so is that Bon specific?
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Bon mudra differences
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Bon mudra differences
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Re: Bon mudra differences
Strange, that you never saw finger snapping in TB.
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Re: Bon mudra differences
I have not been exposed to many sanghas. My main teacher does not emphasize mudras and outer form . So I guess the snapping is not very Bon specific at all actually
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Re: Bon mudra differences
Mudras differ amongst all lineages. Often specific to a monastery's own tradition, actually...though some monasteries will maintain more than one system of mudras, related to different terma cycles, etc. Same with liturgical melodies, liturgical music, torma making, etc.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Re: Bon mudra differences
Thanks for explaining.conebeckham wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:04 pm Mudras differ amongst all lineages. Often specific to a monastery's own tradition, actually...though some monasteries will maintain more than one system of mudras, related to different terma cycles, etc. Same with liturgical melodies, liturgical music, torma making, etc.
KN
ma lu dzok pe san gye thop par shok!