Bedding down for the winter ahead

As darkness once again descends upon the northern hemisphere a host of inspired tertöns strived out into the cold in search of an inner light. Several paths intertwined at the foot of Mount Meru where the quest for wisdom eventually lead to several audiences with the Four Heavenly Kings, guardians and watchers of the world. Along the path home a number of tertöns lost themselves in the vast Himalayan range only to resurface in distant valleys and isolated villages. A wealth of knowledge and gterma is now slowly being recovered and we can expect to see the fruits of the hard labor over the coming months. Even now, fragmentary tones and notes have been carried here by a distant wind.

A long tradition of seekers

The search for the hidden gterma is a process started many hundreds of years ago. In the case of Pema Lingpa, the famous treasure seeker from Bhutan, it all begun with a vision at Yige Drukma. Tertön Pema Lingpa, born in the Bhumtang valley in the middle of the fifteenth century, had an encounter with the great Guru Rinpoche on an autumn day in the year of the monkey. Guru Rinpoche revealed to Pema Lingpa the knowledge of 108 gtermas, hidden in time and space by the great guru himself. Although the famous tertön is said to have captured the entire essence of all these treasures, fact remains that during his lifetime he only actually discovered about half of the them. The tertöns of our modern era continue the search in locations beyond. Today we all commemorate the revelation at Yige Drukma.

Turning our backs on mother sun...

Yes, it is that time of year again, when for some bizarre and misanthropic reason our host terra refuses to turn its axis toward the sun, thus sending those of us in the northern hemisphere into the season of darkness and gloom. Our trees zip up and the smarter birds head for Africa while the rest of us don darker and thicker fabrics in an effort to keep out the cold. The tertöns up north bid the warm season a hearty farewell with the recent track "Autumn" presented by Urenga, the dub-techno alias of our trusted Hungarian compatriot Indo.

Autumn -- preview -- [Gterma 012] by Urenga

Report: Havdis - A fresh breeze of ambience from Norway

Discovered purely by chance in the sometimes seemingly never endless realm of the netlabel community sits this wonderful little ambient pearl from northern Norway. Havdis creates achingly beautiful aural paintings of a coastal world with streaks of romanticism and melancholy, though it is really up to you as the listener to discover what mood it sets upon you. Find this album on Mixgalaxy Records and then proceed to visit the artist's Soundcloud page for more downloadable material.

Report: Nirmanakaya returns on TVK

gterma contributor Nirmanakaya, with his odd and ingenious fusion of electronics and traditional instrumentation has reappeared on Australian netlabel TVK with a single track called Bharata Groove. This particular groove is a marriage of beats and synthetics with a flavour of sitar. Find it available for download on archive.org.