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Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Garden in Eskdalemuir Scotland
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Not every Buddhist gardens is a Zen garden for meditation. For further information and eBooks on Buddha and gardens see: http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_th... • Kagyu Samye Ling is a Tibetan Buddhist Centre. The site was an old country house in The Scottish Borders. It is being made into a rare thing: a modern Buddhist garden. • The name comes from Samye Gompa - the monastery from which Tibetan Buddhism spread after the eighth century. It is 150 kilometers south of Lhasa, where the more-famous Potala was built in the seventeenth century. • At Samye Ling in Scotland, Eight Stupas flank the entrance walk. They commemorate the eight stupas in which the Buddha's ashes were placed when he attained nirvana. The stupa walk leads to Johnstone House and to a wish tree. It has the Scots name Cloutie Tree (meaning cloth tree), because wish trees are both a Scots and a Tibetan tradition. As the cloth fades, the individual's wish becomes the world's wish. • The Peace Garden at Samye Ling has a large stupa, prayer flags and a pool. This stupa commemorates the Buddha's Victory over a serious illness. So its called the Victory Stupa. The flags carry prayers for compassion and world peace. Their colours symbolise the five natural elements: earth, wind, fire, water and space. As the wind blows, the prayer flags carry blessings in all directions. The pond is round and the statue commemorates Nagarjuna, a great philosopher. His ideas, of dependent origination and emptiness, explain that nothing we see is independent. Everything, is interconnected; man and nature are inseparable. In legend, these ideas were entrusted to the nagas for safekeeping. Nagas are snakes. And they love water - so there is a Naga House in the River Esk. • The Liberation Gate is a formal entrance to the monastery and to the Tara Garden. It has Buddhist symbols on its roof: a Dharma Wheel and deer. In Tibetan Buddhism, Tara is the main female bodhisattva. She has twenty one emanations, represented in the Tara Healing Garden by a lotus with 21 petals. The petals are defined with curved stone walls and planted with herbs. The blue Meconopsis Poppy in this bed can be used as an anti-inflamatory in Tibetan medicine. Tara symbolises the unending compassion of a goddess who labors day and night to relieve suffering. • She was born amidst Avalokiteshvara's tears. He wept, at the world's suffering, and his tears formed a lake - in which a lotus grew. Tara came from its bud. A statue of Avalokiteshvara stands in the organic vegetable garden. And there are peacocks among the vegetables. • South of the Samye Ling garden is a hill with prayer flags and mementos. Its a good use for an old coniferous woodland.
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