For most photos I ask before I photograph individuals in religious situations. I request permission from the lama or I am invited as the photographer for Buddhist initiations.

Questions about licenses or sizes available? Need a photographer? email me - wonderlane @ gmail.com or call 206-850-4452
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On Tibetan Buddhism's tantra -
"People must receive guided oral transmission. That is why tantric texts are written in very cryptic language and totally mixed up order.

When people talk about tantra, they often have pretty weird ideas. Most people do not understand the notion of authentic transmission. Many associate tantra with sex. This is ridiculous. Some iconography may depict postures of a sexual nature, but that is not the issue.

But so be it. Unless people are admitted properly, they will misunderstand. Tantra likes to guard the secrecy of those things intended to be kept secret."

Lama Choedak Yuthok : Lamdre Dawn of Enligtenment, Gorum Publications 1997
www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/lamdre.pdf
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Bio: From the point of absolute truth not even the thought of me exists ... but I still need to earn a living.

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Pel punto de la verdad absoluta no igualar el pensamiento de mí existe.

絶対真実のポイントから私の思考を存在している均等にしてはいけない。

Du point de la vérité absolue pas égaliser la pensée de moi existe.

Vom punkt der absoluten Wahrheit gesehen, gibt es nicht ein mal den Gedanken von mir!

站在绝对没有想到我的存在.

From the point of absolute truth not even the thought of me exists ... but I still need to earn a living = Do ponto de vista da verdade absoluta nem mesmo meu pensamento existe ... mas mesmo assim preciso de um ganha-pão.
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An artistic photographer, Photographer Libre. These images are for your use for free, Just give a credit "Photo by Wonderlane" or Wonderlane/Flickr etc...
Contact :
wonderlane@gmail.com

Featured on the cover of Brave New Traveler www.bravenewtraveler.com/ - the Best of the Best 2009 is a photo of His Holiness Dagchen Rinpoche's hand over the Hevajra Mandala shot in Nepal from the Wonderlane Flickr photostream, see:
www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/12/31/bnt%e2%80%99s-best-of...

Two other Wonderlane photos used for another article on friendships (from Nepal and Mexico):
www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/12/16/the-right-stuff-shoul...


Article about Wonderlane photostream:
www.rememberingthemasters.org/2009/08/photos-by-wonderlan...

Ovimagazine article with Wonderlane photos -
www.ovimagazine.com/art/4448

Hive Mind - set to 'Most Interesting'
fiveprime.org/hivemind/User/Wonderlane

See Wonderlane Flickr River set to 'Most Interesting'
www.flickriver.com/photos/wonderlane/popular-interesting/



Please note -- I encourage you to make prints.

These rare Tibetan Buddhist religious images are blessed, and if you make prints, when you are done with them, please dispose of them properly by burning or return to a shrine, temple, or monastery and they will take care of the religious remnant.

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