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This six-armed Mahakala is an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, the buddha of compassion, indicating the wrathful and protective qualities of compassion. This deity grants protection from external and internal interferences and assists in the development of one's Dharma practice. <br> <br>Tibetan Buddhism is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition, meaning that the goal of all practise is to achieve full enlightenment (or Buddhahood) in order to remove all limitation on one's ability to help all other living beings to attain this state. This motivation for practise is called Bodhichitta (a Sanskrit word meaning 'mind of enlightenment'). <br> <br>Buddhahood is defined as freedom from the obstructions to liberation (or negative states of mind such as hatred and desirous attachment) and the obstructions to omniscience (which are the imprints of negative minds, or delusions). When one is freed from mental obscurations one is said to attain a state of unimaginable, continuous bliss where all limitations on one's ability to help all other living beings are removed. This includes the attainment omniscience - that is all obstructions to knowing all phenomena (including knowing perfectly the minds of all sentient beings) are removed. In the Tibetan Buddhist view, when one perceives or conceives of a particular object the mind (carried upon a subtle energy - 'prana' in Sanskrit and 'lung' in Tibetan) goes to that object. Thus it is said that upon the attainment of omniscience, one's mind becomes omnipresent. <br> <br>There are said to be countless beings that have attained Buddhahood, or in other words there are countless Buddhas. Buddhas spontaneously, naturally and continuously perform activities to benefit all sentient beings. However it is believed that sentient beings' karma (or actions and results) has equal power to Buddhas. Thus, although Buddhas possess no limitation from their side on their ability to help others, sentient beings continue to experience suffering as a result of their own negative actions (usually committed in previous lifetimes).
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