Search site: Meditation Cushions Zafu Zabuton Zafu Zabuton Sets Gomden Buckwheat Zafu Meditation and Yoga Pillows Futon Yoga Mat Meditation Cushion Covers Meditation Benches Seiza Bench Seiza Meditation Bench Sets Cloud Bench Low Cloud Bench Meditation Table Meditation Books Mindfulness Meditation Meditation Courses New Books on Buddhist Meditation Lojong and Tonglen Pema Chödrön Chögyam Trungpa Thich Nhat Hanh Sakyong Mipham Dharma Bums Buddhist Wisdom ► Health and Healing Tibetan Buddhism Death and Rebirth Buddhist Music Vegetarian Cookbooks Buddhism for Children Interfaith Other Selections Incense Store Incense Burners Japanese Incense Tibetan Incense Chinese Incense (Aloeswood) Nag Champa Powder and Resin Incense Incense Charcoal Smokeless Incense Meditation Supplies Meditation Altar ► Crystal Balls Bowls for Altar Offerings Incense Bowls & Burners Tibetan Ritual Buddhist Shrine Rupas Prints and Photos Gong Bowls and Rin Bells Meditation Timer Mala Beads Sumi Ink Calligraphy Brushes Ikebana Supplies Zen Tea & Oryoki Meditation Gifts Altar Candles How to Meditate Helpful Links My Account FAQs About Us Contact Us Supporting Meditation Since 1975 1.800.331.7751 Connect With Us Supporting Mindfulness Since 1975 1.800.331.7751 Menu Shop Our Categories Helpful Links My Account FAQs About Us Contact Us Search site: Meditation Cushions Zafu Zabuton Zafu Zabuton Sets Gomden Buckwheat Zafu Meditation and Yoga Pillows Futon Yoga Mat Meditation Cushion Covers Meditation Benches Seiza Bench Seiza Meditation Bench Sets Cloud Bench Low Cloud Bench Meditation Table Meditation Books Mindfulness Meditation Meditation Courses New Books on Buddhist Meditation Lojong and Tonglen Pema Chödrön Chögyam Trungpa Thich Nhat Hanh Sakyong Mipham Dharma Bums Buddhist Wisdom ► Health and Healing Tibetan Buddhism Death and Rebirth Buddhist Music Vegetarian Cookbooks Buddhism for Children Interfaith Other Selections Incense Store Incense Burners Japanese Incense Tibetan Incense Chinese Incense (Aloeswood) Nag Champa Powder and Resin Incense Incense Charcoal Smokeless Incense Meditation Supplies Meditation Altar ► Crystal Balls Bowls for Altar Offerings Incense Bowls & Burners Tibetan Ritual Buddhist Shrine Rupas Prints and Photos Gong Bowls and Rin Bells Meditation Timer Mala Beads Sumi Ink Calligraphy Brushes Ikebana Supplies Zen Tea & Oryoki Meditation Gifts Altar Candles How to Meditate Cushion or Bench questions?Click here for pointers. Home > Meditation Supplies > Meditation Altar ► > Māhākala 8 X 10" Print ~ Original Painting by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche Four-Armed Mahakala is particularly associated with protecting the lineage of the Surmang group of monasteries of which Chögyam Trungpa was the Supreme Abbot. When he came to North America, he made Four-Armed Mahakala the protector of the meditation centres that he established, called Dharmadhatus, and an invocation he wrote for this protector is still chanted by practitioners in these meditation centres, now called Shambhala Centres. He also associated this protector with the Dorje Kasung, a discipline of meditation-in-action drawing on the monastic traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society and some forms of the Western military traditions.Four-Armed Mahakala is closely associated with Chakrasamvara, one of the principal male deities or yidams of the Kagyü lineage to which Chögyam Trungpa belonged. In The Myth of Freedom, published in 1976 by Shambhala Publications, he writes about this protector in a chapter entitled "Working with Negativity." He says: "The whole structure of the [Mahakala] image is based on energy and complete compassion devoid of idiot compassion. . . . The mahakala is traditionally surrounded by flames, representing the unceasing energy of anger without hatred, the energy of compassion. The skull crown symbolizes the negativity or emotions that are not destroyed or abandoned or condemned for being bad. Rather, they are used by the mahakala for his ornaments and crown." (p. 80) Printed on uncoated archival-quality paper.Image copyright Diana J. Mukpo. Please do not reproduce this image. Our Price: $20.00 Product Code: S-4596 Qty: Details Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review