Guru Padmasambhava Painting in relief is an

Painting in relief is an old Tibetan decorative technique

with alternative adornments

extracted from minerals

and blessing the thousand pieces into which Avalokiteshvara’s former head had split

Guru Padmasambhava Painting in relief is anAccording to legend, Padmasambhava was born not from a woman, but as an eight year old boy in the center of a lotus in North India. He played a crucial role in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet, subduing the defiant local spirits and founding the first tantric sect, the Nyingmas. In 760, the Tibetan king Trisong Detsen invited Padmasambhava to Tibet to subdue the local spirits that were obstructing the establishment of Buddhism. The king had been