A KORA OF KORAS

24 ‘ Advaita’ means ‘not two’ and is often referred to as ‘non-duality’ and is often associated
with ‘Advaita Vedanta.’ It is The paradoxical, not graspable by the mind, Realization of nonseparateness:
‘Neither one God or many gods; Only God.’
25 ‘Rohtang’ means ‘pile of corpses,’ attesting to the many people who died on this high pass in
the many storms that would suddenly arise. The Rohtang was a well traveled pass that travelers
on the Silk Road would use to come down off the Tibetan plateau to Delhi and the plains of
India.
26 Nalanda was a large Buddhist monastery and school located in the kingdom of Magadha or
modern day Bihar. At its peak, the school attracted scholars and students from near and far with
some traveling from Tibet, China, Korea and Central Asia. -Wikipedia
27 There are terrible descriptions of rituals for smashing and killing and doing all sorts of
horrible things with sharp weapons. Some scriptures say that these are supposed to be kept
secret because they could be completely misunderstood as meaning some horrible act, and that
practitioners would actually go out and kill people.
28 For Mahasiddhas, the cremation ground or other ‘horrible’ places are not merely a
hermitage; Mahasiddhas can also be discovered or revealed in completely terrifying mundane
environments where practitioners find themselves desperate and depressed, where conventional
worldly aspirations have become devastated by grim reality. This is demonstrated in the sacred
biographies of the great Mahasiddhas of the Vajrayāna tradition. Tilopa attained realization as
a grinder of sesame seeds and a procurer for a prominent prostitute. Sarvabhakṣha was an
extremely obese glutton, Gorakṣha was a cowherd in remote climes, Taṅtepa was addicted to
gambling, and Kumbharipa was a destitute potter. These circumstances were called charnel
grounds because they were despised in Indian society and the Mahasiddhas were viewed as
failures and marginal and defiled beings. - Wikipedia