Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol): Sky empty and luminous

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Sky empty and luminous

Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol), Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Tibetan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol)
(1781 - 1851) Timeline

English version by
Matthieu Ricard

Original Language
Tibetan

Buddhist : Tibetan

19th Century

Sky empty and luminous
beyond all attachments,
Remains.
Me, the setting sun
resplendent with light,
Will not remain at all.

I pass behind the western summit
To reappear again soon,
Above the mountains of the east.

-- from Rainbows Appear: Tibetan Poems of Shabkar, Translated by Matthieu Ricard

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Themes

East

Light

Mountain

Sky

Sun

Recommended Books

	Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat, by Shabkar
	The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin, by Shabkar Tsogdruk Rongdrol / Translated by Matthieu Ricard
	Rainbows Appear: Tibetan Poems of Shabkar, Translated by Matthieu Ricard
	Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Buddhist Poems of Insight & Awakening, Translated by Thupten Jinpa / Translated by Jas Elsner

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