檢視 Pharping 的原始碼

[[image:Palyul.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Home to the [[Rigpa Shedra]]: the [[Palyul Retreat Centre]]]]
'''Pharping''', a town south of Kathmandu in Nepal, is identified with the sacred site of '''[[Yangleshö cave|Yangleshö]]''' (Tib. ཡང་ལེ་ཤོད་, [[Wyl.]] ''yang le shod''), where Guru [[Padmasambhava]] attained the level of a [[Mahamudra vidyadhara]]. Yangleshö is thus, according to [[Katok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu]], considered to be for [[Vajrayana]] practitioners as important as [[Bodhgaya]] because it is where the second [[buddha]] Guru Padmasambhava attained the state of [[enlightenment]].

There are two major practice caves in Pharping blessed by Guru Rinpoche: the [[Asura cave]] and the [[Yangleshö cave]]. At the bottom of the flight of stairs climbing up to the Asura cave is an old and important [[Vajrayogini]] temple, the [[Pharping Vajravarahi temple]]. Other stairs also lead up to the cave. They start towards the end of the village, at [[Ralo Rinpoche]]'s monastery and start by a shrine containing a [[Pharping self-arisen Tara|self-arisen Tara]] on the side of an image of [[Ganapati|Ganesha]]. To the south of the village is the temple of [[Dakshinkali]], one of the four Kalis surrounding the Kathmandu valley. Pharping also has several monasteries, temples and retreat centres, including [[Chatral Rinpoche]]'s monastery, and the [[Palyul Retreat Centre]], which is the residence of [[Khenpo Namdrol]] Rinpoche and home to the [[Rigpa Shedra]].

Pharping is known to the Tibetans as Yanglseshö, and to the Nepali as Pharping (pronouce "farping"). It was also known as Phamting. Some say it is because it is the birthplace of the [[Phamtingpa]], the  heart-son of [[Naropa]], and his brothers.<ref>Khenpo Menlha Puntsok, p.71</ref> [[Chatral Rinpoche]] explains that the 'Indian Phamting' (''rgya gar pham thing'') derives its name from the presence of the great hood of the [[naga]] king Lhakmachen or Shesha which indicate that it is a place associated with him. That is why the learned masters of the past used to called it Phanathingu (''pha na thinggu''), which means 'the nine hoods', and the usage ebbed as Phamting.<ref>p.27bl.1-3</ref>

Pharping has not only been blessed by the master of Oddiyana's practice with his consort [[Shakyadevi]] and his attainment of the [[Mahamudra vidyadhara|vidyadhara level of Mahamudra]], it has been also visited by many great beings, like long term resident [[Marpa Lotsawa]], who practised, made offerings, [[tsok|ganachakra feasts]], aspiration prayers and so on. 

==Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha==
*[[Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche]], Berkeley, 15 September 1996 (Rinpoche briefly discusses the exact location of Guru Rinpoche's attainment of the mahamudra vidyadhara stage)

==Bibliography==
*[[Chatral Rinpoche]], ''yul chen po nye ba'i tshandho ha bal po'i gnas kyi dkar chag gangs can rna ba'i bdud rtsi'', n.d. 26bl.6-29bl.5. 
*Khenpo Menlha Phuntsok, ''ne p'al nang pa'i gnas yig dngul dkar me long'', p.64-71.

==References==
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==Internal Links==
* [[Yangleshö cave]]

==External Links==
*{{LH|tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/praise-yanglesho|Praise of Yangleshö by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö}}
*[http://shedratalk.blogspot.com/2011/03/buddhist-holy-sites-of-nepal-pharping.html Buddhist Holy Sites of Nepal - Pharping by Stefan Mang]
*[http://www.nekorpa.org Nekorpa]

===OpenStreetMap===
The [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.61441&lon=85.26435&zoom=17 map of Pharping] shows the location of the Rigpa Shedra.

===Google Earth===
Use [http://earth.google.com Google Earth] for a view on the retreat centre: [[media:PharpingRigpaShedra.kmz|Shedra East at Palyul Retreat Centre]].

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