Notes from talk below:
- are out of the realm of samsara, like a purgatory.
- born instantaneously.
- lifts you up.
- consciousness out top of head.
- you develop rapid psychic powers. can help sentient beings.
- power of suchness. power of travel. remember all past lives and information. have celestial eye, and ears to hear cries and respond, know state of beings so you can help them. dreams come from other dimensions.
- emanation – can start to beam out one of the 4 forms of emanation. 4 types of tulkus.
- in the bardo most tulkus – enlightened master – most transfer power in form of merits into another diversified or variegated tulku, can come back as any form, as a breeze, and medicine, a bridge, anything in the material world. the world is made of mind, this is what spirituality is all about. Mind can manifest in any form. Can help in many situations. Crafted, like stupas, sacred objects consecrated to serve and act as a transmitted power of enlightenment. must have pure intention of benevolence. Highest level of practitioners. Pure mind starts to mix with pure land and starts to imprint into world with their realization. There’s something left implanted in the hardware by the power of the software of the beings imbedded in it. Essence of pilgrimage and sacred sites. Conclusion = if you look at this world with the proper light, this world is the body of the Buddha, pure perception. There is no suffering, birth or death there. No sickness. No samsara. There’s no reproductive capabilities, that’s why there’s no suffering. Androgynous, no food, no excretion, no phlegm, no mucous, none of this which contributes to samsara. Tulku is merit.
and this 2nd talk on Pure Lands by Mark Unno:
One Seeker's Story 