Meditation
Meet Wang, a Tibetan monk
Recently I met a Tibetan monk called Wang. He is a man with great humour and wisdom. I do not have a picture of him but I think of him as in the picture of the Tibetan monk in this article.
In the Tibetan culture Wang means empowerment. An empowerment is a ritual which initiates a student into a particular practice. A tantric practice is not considered effective until a master has transmitted the corresponding Wang (power) of the practice directly to the student. As part of the preliminary practices before a student even begins the actual practices, the teacher introduces the student to the ‘mandala’ of the deity.
