Today is the anniversary of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye's passing into parinirvana. Jamgon Kongtrul (1813–1899), along with Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo and Dechen Chogyur Lingpa, all depicted in this work, are the great founding figures of the 19th-century non-sectarian movement in Tibetan Buddhism. Kongtrul studied with the most prominent teachers of his time from various traditions and is most known for compiling this knowledge and experience into the "Five Treasuries." This work contains some of the finest recordings of the teachings of all the major Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Today he continues to have a vast impact on Tibetan Buddhist teachers and followers around the world. This work depicts Jamgon Kongtrul surrounded by the deities and masters who are instrumental to the development of his spiritual realization and non-sectarian movement. These deities include the primordial Buddha Vajradhara, blue in color with one face and two hands crossed at the heart in the top left, and the ...