Miksang is a Tibetan word, meaning "good eye." It represents a form of

contemplative In a religious context, the practice of contemplation seeks a direct awareness of the divine which transcends the intellect, often in accordance with prayer or meditation. Etymology The word ''contemplation'' is derived from the Latin word '' ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

based on the Dharma Art teachings of

Chögyam Trungpa Chögyam Trungpa ( Wylie: ''Chos rgyam Drung pa''; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the 11th of the Trungpa tülkus, a tertön, sup ...

, in which the eye is synchronized with the introspective mind. The result of this particular perception of the world, combined with photography, produces a peculiar and open way of seeing the world. Miksang pictures tend to bring the observer back into the original

contemplation In a religious context, the practice of contemplation seeks a direct awareness of the divine which transcends the intellect, often in accordance with prayer or meditation. Etymology The word ''contemplation'' is derived from the Latin word ' ...

state of the author of the picture. The pictures can bring one back to a purer

perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system ...

of reality that is often neglected. Miksang requires no special setup; only a skilled

visual capture In psychology, visual capture is the dominance of vision over other sense modalities in creating a percept.Grünwald, Martin. ''Human haptic perception''. Birkhauser, 2008. 657. Print. In this process, the visual senses influence the other parts o ...

, in the proper state of mind, of everyday

reality Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. In physical terms, r ...

.Midal (2004) p.272n6

References

* Midal, Fabrice (2004) ''Chögyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision'' Photographic techniques Shambhala vision Spirituality Tibetan words and phrases Tibetan Buddhist art and culture {{photography-stub