Nuden Dorje Dro’phang Lingpa Tröllö Tsal
the dynamic of stillness and change
Khandro Déchen says of this image:
Here we see a powerful example of the way in which tranquillity and energy-stillness and change-compassion and ferocity compose a single visual statement. Nuden Dorje Dro’phang Lingpa holds weapons – yet his gaze is utterly serene. He holds the weapons in an energetic stance, but there is no sense in which anything is being threatened – apart from duality. The genius of Vajrayana and its artistic expression lies in the possibility of combining a vast range of possibilities in such a way as to provide shocking glimpses into the nature of enlightened perception. The images of the lineage Lamas brings the path alive for the practitioners. These pictures are not simply historical portraits of master of the past – they are living examples of the realised
state.
