The Invisible Temple of Olmo Lungring.
‘A short essay on the symbolic, historic and magical aspects of the Bön spiritual tradition’.
Bön is a shamanic tradition that pre-dates Buddhism in Tibet. This essay is a brief exploration into its iconography, cosmology, key concepts such as the ‘Terma’, as well as its purported origin, from a mythical realm outside of Tibet, known as Olmo Lungring.
It is also a philosophical exploration into the Swastika, as well as the mountain as the proto-temple of religious thought, and references Rene Daumal’s ‘Mount Analogue’ throughout.
Bön is a shamanic tradition that pre-dates Buddhism in Tibet. This essay is a brief exploration into its iconography, cosmology, key concepts such as the ‘Terma’, as well as its purported origin, from a mythical realm outside of Tibet, known as Olmo Lungring.
It is also a philosophical exploration into the Swastika, as well as the mountain as the proto-temple of religious thought, and references Rene Daumal’s ‘Mount Analogue’ throughout.
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