檢視 Kutsab 的原始碼

[[Image:Guru dewachen statue.JPG|frame|[[Terma]]s discovered by [[Chokgyur Lingpa]]. The golden image at the centre is a [[kutsab]] known as ''Ngödrup Palbar'' and was discovered from ''Tsiké Norbu Punsum''.<ref>[[Tulku Thondup Rinpoche]], ''Hidden Teachings of Tibet'', central pictures.</ref>]]
'''Kutsab''' ([[Wyl.]] ''sku tshab''), or ‘representative’ — a statue made in the likeliness of a [[buddha]], [[yidam]] or great master. These images are used as objects of inspiration and a source of [[blessing]] for [[Vajrayana]] practitioners. 

Many kutsabs of [[Guru Rinpoche]] were made during his stay in Tibet, concealed as [[earth terma]]s, and later discovered by [[tertön]]s. These particularly sacred images were made by Guru Rinpoche and his [[twenty-five disciples]] out of sacred substances and relics, and blessed by Guru Rinpoche himself to be his representatives in the future.

[[Tulku Thondup]] writes:
:Kutsabs are the most important and rare terma images of Guru [[Padmasambhava]], blessed as his own representatives by the Guru himself. Generally, there are hundreds of terma images of him, but according to many [[Nyingma]] scriptures there are only twenty-five kutsab images.<ref>ibid.</ref>

The materials used to make kutsabs include:
*materials gathered by [[dakini]]s from celestial realms and sacred places, 
*jewels from the [[gods]] and [[naga]]s, 
*gold from the Jambu river and sands of [[Lake Manasarovar]], 
*soil from the [[eight great charnel grounds]] and [[twenty-four great sacred places]],
*fragrances from a tree of paradise, 
*medicinal essences,
*various elixirs and extracts,
*relics from [[Dzogchen]] masters ([[Garab Dorje]], [[Manjushrimitra]], [[Shri Singha]], [[Vimalamitra]] among others) such as locks of their hair, clothing fragments, bone relics, practice substances,
*Guru Rinpoche's own blood, hair and semen.

==Notes==
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==Further Reading==
===In Tibetan===
*[[Chokgyur Lingpa]], ''The Play of Activity: A History of Sacred Substances that Liberate through Tasting and Two Kutsab that Liberate through Seeing'' (''dam rdzas myong grol phrin las rol ba dang/ mthong grol sku tshab rnam gnyis kyi lo rygus'')
*[[Terdak Lingpa]]
**''A Catalogue of Two Images that Liberate through Seeing'' (''mthong grol sku rten gnyis kyi dkar chag'', vol. 11:124a–128b)
**''The Wondrous Mirror: A Catalogue of Two Kutsab of the Guru'' (''gu ruʾi sku tshab rnam gnyis kyi dkar chag ngo mtshar me long'', vol. 12:91a–93a)

===In English===
*Holly Gayley, ''Soteriology of the Senses in Tibetan Buddhism'', Numen 54 (2007) 459–499.
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''Hidden Teachings of Tibet: An Explanation of the Terma Tradition of the Nyingma School of Buddhism'' (London & Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1986, reprint edition 1997), central images.


[[Category: Statues and Images]]
[[Category: Termas]]