Ghau Buddhist pendant Buddha Guru Rinpoche Wood of ebéne silver gold Grenats sapphires turquoise rose quartz double dorje turning on the back

The ghau is a kind of transportable altar in which the image of the chosen deity of the possessor is kept, wrapped in silk garments. The vast majority of Tibetans use the ghau at home and carry it during their travels. They keep it on a real altar at home. During travels, it is hung on the back belt. It serves as a protective symbol during travels and also allows its owner to prove his devotion to his deity.

Guru Rinpoche Protective Reliquary.
Ébéne wood,
gold-plated silver,
Garnets
Sapphires
rose quartz
0.5 grams of gold

Glass like transparent sapphire watches or anti-scratch "leucosaphir" of great hardness, reproducing the same characteristics of natural stone.

double dorje turning on the back in Ox bone set with an authentic turquoise of Hubei province.

As a gemologist graduated from the National Institute of Gemmology in Paris, France, all our subjects are appraised and certified.

Reliquary size, 34/34 mm
weight of 25 grams

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GURU RINPOCHE
Padmasambhava literally born of the lotus, is a Buddhist master of the eighth century born probably during the first quarter of this century, in the Swat Valley of Pakistan also called Guru Rinpoche ("precious master").

Although he existed historically, nothing is known of him except that he participated in the construction, at the request of King Trisong Detsen, of the first Buddhist monastery in Samye in Tibet, which he left due to court intrigues.

A number of legends have grown around Padmasambhava's life and deeds, and he is widely revered as a "second Buddha" across Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and the Himalayan states of India.

In Tibetan Buddhism, it is associated with terma literature, and is said to be an emanation of Amitabha related to tertöns to whom it would appear in visionary encounters and the practice of the guru yoga, especially in the Rimé schools. The members of the Nyingma school consider him the founder of their tradition.

According to the legendary life of Padmasambhava, the latter was born a few years after the Buddha's Parinirvana in miraculous form in the middle of a lake in the kingdom of Oddiyana located in the current Swat Valley.

He would have lived for many centuries before coming to Tibet. For Tibetans in the lineage of the Dzogchen Nyingmapa, Shakyamuni Buddha represents the Buddha principle that gives all the fundamental teachings gathered in the sutras. Padmasambhava is one with Shakyamuni Buddha but represents the principle, even higher, of the master who reveals all the initiatory teachings of the tantras. In other words, they are no different but Buddha Shakyamuni represents the exoteric aspect of Buddhism while Padmasambhava represents the esoteric aspect.

Padmasambhava is not only the founder of Buddhism in Tibet, he is also at the origin of the terma tradition or "Spiritual Treasures" transmitted by those who discover them, the Tertöns of the Nyingmapa school. Several times in his teachings Padmasambhava prophesied the coming to Tibet of the Karmapas of the Kagyu school.