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[[Image:Asura cave.JPG|frame|The entrance to Asura cave, [[Pharping]]]]
'''[[Asura]] cave''' ([[Wyl.]] ''a su ra'i brag phug'') — a cave sacred to [[Guru Rinpoche]], located above the village of [[Pharping]], near Kathmandu, Nepal. It is also known as the 'Upper [[Yangleshö cave|cave of Yangleshö]]'. On the upper left side of the entrance door is the imprint of a hand in the rock.

[[Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche]] explains that:
:In the innermost recesses of the Asura Cave [...] is a tunnel that connects this cave to the Yangleshö Cave down below, about half a mile away. It is not a big hole. Wind passes through this passage and you can feel the draft when sitting near it. Although [[Padmasambhava]] could traverse freely through solid matter, he used this narrow tunnel to move between Yangleshö Cave and the upper Asura Cave.<ref>[[Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche]], ''Rainbow Painting: A Collection of Miscellaneous Aspects of Development and Completion'' (North Atlantic Books, 2004), page 177.</ref>

[[Tulku Tenpo]] writes:
:In the past, in the Asura cave at the border of India and Nepal, Padmasambhava, the great master from [[Orgyen]], and [[Langchen Palgyi Sengé]], one of his main disciples, opened the mandala of the great and glorious Drekpa Kundul<ref>Drekpa Kundul is the chief figure in the mandala of [[Jikten Chötö]].</ref> They gave the spirits the [[Vajrayana]] [[empowerment]]s, and bound them under oath to obey their command. When the [[twelve Tenma]] made their pledge and promised to protect Tibet, Guru Rinpoche and Langchen Palgyi Senge poured [[samaya]] water on the tongues of the Tenma and placed a symbolic crown, corresponding to their particular buddha family, on each of their heads. Then they placed the unchanging [[vajra]] in their hands and entrusted them to protect Tibet, and particularly to prevent the [[tirthika]]s from ever entering.<ref>In ''Word Commentary to Rigdzin Düpa Inner Sadhana''</ref>

==Present Day==
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche restored the cave in the late 80s, early 90s, and built a monastery and [[three-year retreat]] centre for the practice of the [[Chokling Tersar]] called Pema Ösel Ling, which surrounds the cave.

The three main images enshrined inside the cave are those of Guru Rinpoche, [[Yangdak Heruka]] and [[Vajrakilaya]].

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