About: Lukhang   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbkwik.org associated with source dataset(s)

Lukhang (Tib. klu khang, residence of Nagas), formally Zongdag Lukhang (Tib. rdzong bdag klu khang [?], residence of Nagas, lords of the castle and administered territory [?]) is the name of a secret temple of His Holiness Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama. Three walls of the temple are covered with murals of yogis engaged in their exercises. The temple is situated on a small island on a lake behind the Potala palace in Lhasa.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Lukhang
rdfs:comment
  • Lukhang (Tib. klu khang, residence of Nagas), formally Zongdag Lukhang (Tib. rdzong bdag klu khang [?], residence of Nagas, lords of the castle and administered territory [?]) is the name of a secret temple of His Holiness Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama. Three walls of the temple are covered with murals of yogis engaged in their exercises. The temple is situated on a small island on a lake behind the Potala palace in Lhasa.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:religion/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • Lukhang (Tib. klu khang, residence of Nagas), formally Zongdag Lukhang (Tib. rdzong bdag klu khang [?], residence of Nagas, lords of the castle and administered territory [?]) is the name of a secret temple of His Holiness Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama. Three walls of the temple are covered with murals of yogis engaged in their exercises. * One wall of murals illustrates a commentary by Longchenpa on a Dzogchen tantra Rigpa Rangshar, interpreted according to the 5th Dalai Lama's experience of practice. The murals show characteristic visions of the secret practice of thödgal. * Another wall shows eight manifestations of Guru Padmasambhava and eighty four main Mahasiddhas. * The third wall illustrates positions and movements of Yantra Yoga. The temple is situated on a small island on a lake behind the Potala palace in Lhasa.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software