Beautiful thangka of Guru Rinpoche with his retinue handpainted by traditional artists in the mountains of Nepal. Next to him are Mandharava and Yeshe Tsogyal. Below are Śāntarakṣita and King Trisong Detsen. And above are Longchenpa, Jigme Lingpa, and Amitabha. Guru Rinpoche, also known as Padmasambhava, helped to establish the Dharma in Tibet in the eighth century by constructing Samye Monastary, the first Buddhist monastary in Tibet. He is often called the Buddha of our times, or the Second Buddha.
