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tsa tsa
I recently learned to make tsa tsa's, we made them for a sangha member who has passed. I understand that one can simply do it as a practice as well..if one does this, what do you with the tsa tsas? I bought a mold etc...I don't really know what you do with them after you make them though - providing they are not for a deceased person etc. I know you can place them at holy places, are there other locations that are acceptable?
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Re: tsa tsa
Give them as gifts, place them in high, respectful places,
build a tsa-tsa house, build a tsa-tsa wall, fill a stupa...
It is a remarkable practice with the Karmic result that you
"create the body of a Buddha." You don't become a future
statue maker, you become a Buddha.
build a tsa-tsa house, build a tsa-tsa wall, fill a stupa...
It is a remarkable practice with the Karmic result that you
"create the body of a Buddha." You don't become a future
statue maker, you become a Buddha.
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ngodrup wrote:Give them as gifts, place them in high, respectful places,
build a tsa-tsa house, build a tsa-tsa wall, fill a stupa...
It is a remarkable practice with the Karmic result that you
"create the body of a Buddha." You don't become a future
statue maker, you become a Buddha.
Tsa tsa wall..noted, sounds like a fantastic idea.
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Re: tsa tsa
Typically you put them out in nature, ideally up a mountain somewhere and tucked under as much shelter (like a little rock ledge) as you can. Or you can put them on a shrine of course.
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I read of somebody who found such a little buddha statue while sitting in the nature playing with his hands in the soil. He didn't know anything about tsa-tsas and he felt blessed extremly about this fantastic coincidence.
Geshe Ngawang Tubten made 100000 tiny Buddha Shakiamuni statues before his death. Many of them rest now in a cabinet around the altar of a little shrine-house.
One organizer of our temple, who lives there also, is an artist. She paints and exhibites acrylcolor pictures and she's about 70 years old. Her physical health is not too strong, so she cannot do prostrations. Her teacher recommended her to make 100000 tsa-tsas of gesso. She says, she makes two per day. Now slowly, slowly the whole temple gets crowded with small tsa-tsas of different dieties. She put some on some walls, like a decorative strip, some she gives away as gifts, for some she accepts donations for the temple.
On my altar there is an Avalokiteshvara with thousand arms and one orange Manjushri already from her. And I will get one of her filigree White Taras tonight also.
Just wonderful.
Geshe Ngawang Tubten made 100000 tiny Buddha Shakiamuni statues before his death. Many of them rest now in a cabinet around the altar of a little shrine-house.
One organizer of our temple, who lives there also, is an artist. She paints and exhibites acrylcolor pictures and she's about 70 years old. Her physical health is not too strong, so she cannot do prostrations. Her teacher recommended her to make 100000 tsa-tsas of gesso. She says, she makes two per day. Now slowly, slowly the whole temple gets crowded with small tsa-tsas of different dieties. She put some on some walls, like a decorative strip, some she gives away as gifts, for some she accepts donations for the temple.
On my altar there is an Avalokiteshvara with thousand arms and one orange Manjushri already from her. And I will get one of her filigree White Taras tonight also.
Just wonderful.
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AdzomTtulku once had some mountaineers put tsa tsas on a dangerous mountain peak where many climbers have died.
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What material did you use to make the Tsa Ta's.I am getting an old brass one and will be looking for materials that bring outJohnny Dangerous wrote:I recently learned to make tsa tsa's, we made them for a sangha member who has passed. I understand that one can simply do it as a practice as well..if one does this, what do you with the tsa tsas? I bought a mold etc...I don't really know what you do with them after you make them though - providing they are not for a deceased person etc. I know you can place them at holy places, are there other locations that are acceptable?
the fine detail in the Tsa Tsa .
Thanks
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amanitamusc wrote:What material did you use to make the Tsa Ta's.I am getting an old brass one and will be looking for materials that bring outJohnny Dangerous wrote:I recently learned to make tsa tsa's, we made them for a sangha member who has passed. I understand that one can simply do it as a practice as well..if one does this, what do you with the tsa tsas? I bought a mold etc...I don't really know what you do with them after you make them though - providing they are not for a deceased person etc. I know you can place them at holy places, are there other locations that are acceptable?
the fine detail in the Tsa Tsa .
Thanks
VERY basic self-dry clay to start with. Not every high quality, but might be ok if painted with acrylic paint. Kind of shopping around now for nicer clay.
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when afflicted by disease
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared
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Hey Johnny, how to you prevent the clay from sticking to the inside of the mold?
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-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
-Ra Lotsawa, All-pervading Melodious Drumbeats
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Konchog1 wrote:Hey Johnny, how to you prevent the clay from sticking to the inside of the mold?
Spray oil.
Heh, when we learned it it was jokingly described as they "ancient Tibetan tradition of Crisco" or somesuch.
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when afflicted by disease
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared
-Khunu Lama
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared
-Khunu Lama