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.

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The Invisible Temple of Olmo Lungring

Chac Mool

Chicannà

The Geometry of Bliss

Nommo

Riverrun, A Resurection

Dogū - Venus of the Jomōn

Maya Flints

Mitla

Monte Alban

La Venta

Palenque

Hyalosigns & The Crystal Image of Time

Popol Vuh

Chichen Itza

Sanxingdui

Cosmic Serpents & The Quantum Supermyth

Metabolism of Spirit

The Hidden History of Cozumel

Peak Gnosticism

The Voice & The Vacuum

The Ear of The Sea

Illuminated Geometries & The Transmigration of Starlore

Rhizoliths of Deeper Time

The Cloudscape & The Body of Water Knowledge

The Secret Soothsayers

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