Searching for the Lotus-Born Master (Ⅳ)

Editor's note: Laurence Brahm first came to China as a university exchange student from the US in 1981 and has spent much of the past three and a half decades living and working in China. He is a lawyer, an economist and founding chairman of the Himalayan Consensus. He is also an award-winning documentary film director specializing in extreme Himalayan expeditions. His latest film Searching for the Lotus-Born Master (2018) has received a dozen international film festival awards and accolades.

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In Lotus-Born Master's third manifestation, he became Loden Chokse. Damcho Rinpoche explained that Loden Chokse means the wisdom holder. And that the Lotus-Born Master was very wise. He could learn all Buddhist practices right away. We also learned from an interview with Sumnima Udas, founding director of Buddhism museum in Lumbini, that in ancient times, Buddhist universities taught many things including science, agriculture, medicine, architecture, and astronomy in addition to Buddhist philosophy.

蓮花生大士的第三個化身是羅登確知。丹珠仁波切解釋道，羅登確知的意思是，智慧持有者。蓮師非常聰慧，頃刻間可通達一切佛法的修習。我們從藍毗尼佛教博物館創始人兼主任 Sumnima Udas 的采訪中了解到，在古代，除了佛學經教外，佛學院也教授科學、農業、醫藥、建筑、天文等知識。