The complete book is now available to initiates as a pdf file. It comes already in this early time. It is not to be given lightly. Vajrapani wears a loin-cloth around his hips. So he met this dakini, and she gave him the initiation of Vajrabhairava. In Sanskrit Vajrabhairava means Adamantine Terrifier. So in the sensory offerings Yamantaka, the GHENDE, or the perfume is after the flower. Thats understanding Buddha as someone who was enlightened many, many eons ago, who just manifests becoming enlightened, and who does these incredible things to teach the whole universe. Then it becomes a little bit more understandable. Interferences are the four maras (mara is the embodiment of interference, and mara is from the Sanskrit word meaning death): So if you understand this whole system of Yama and the maras and so on, then when it says that you wont be harmed by interferences, you understand what that means. Menekuni Sadhana Yamantaka Vajra harus sangat ketat mentaati sila, barangsiapa melanggar sila berat maupun melanggar pancasila tidak boleh menekuninya ; Kecuali memohon pertobatan kepada Vajrasattva, menjapa 21 kali Mantra Sataksara Vajrasattva, setelah menjapanya menyatakan pertobatan, menekuninya hingga muncul fenomena manggala dari buah . They refuse to let him take the texts with him; he was only allowed to memorize as much as he could in a short time and then write it down upon his return.Siklos (pp.5-10) gives a fascinating analytical account of the origins of the Vajrabhairava Tantra pointing towards the non-Buddhist Shaivite tradition in Western India (Kashmir & Afghanistan). Commentary teachings and retreats are held at regular intervals around the world. And on tsog day you do Yamantakas mantra three times more than your normal. This is a Puja of the Tantric Deity Yamantaka (the wrathful manifestation of Manjushri). The teaching of Yamantaka is even more special. Very often women think that women didnt play a very major role in the historical development of Buddhism. In this system of putting together the three practices of these three deity systems Guhyasamaja, Chakrasamvara, and Yamantaka or Vajrabhairava (two names) Yamantaka is the container within which the other two practices can be included. Rilbu means qualified inner nectar pill put inside. So he does that.. In the Gelug tradition this became very, very strongly practiced. Gelug Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Whos this Yamantaka? He tried to locate a tantra text in India of Vajrabhairava, but he couldnt find anything. So thats a little bit different. Now, he wanted to take more, and the dakini told him, Thats enough. He was very fanatic. Thats what a Buddha does. And youre getting the understanding of voidness with this, with the clear-light mind, so you overcome the mara of whats called the sons of the gods (which is referring to the non-Buddhist philosophical views). Another day he saw several parrots involved in eating rice while another larger bird was killing them. Once you have that yidam, it is the yidam of Tsongkhapa, it is the vehicle in which Tsongkhapa became Enlightened. First about my own background. In the Gelug school, Yama- or Dharmaraja is part of the Vajrabhairava practice. Then on top of that, Guru Devotion, very strongly, and Wheel of Sharp Weapons, and Lamrim, and take complete refuge in Yamantaka. They made this association that Manchu well, that sounds like Manju of Manjushri so their rulers eventually became recognized as emanations of Manjushri like the association of Avalokiteshvara with the Tibetans and Vajrapani with the Mongols. So if you want to do these more advanced practices and so on, you have to have the strength of conviction, the understanding of reality (so Manjushri in your heart), and this forceful energy to be able to chase away interferences your confusion, your selfishness, and so on chase away the interferences and stay steady in your practice. The principal practice texts come from Tsongkhapa (13-Deity) and Pabongka (Solitary Hero). Je Pabongka Rinpoche. Highest Yoga Tantra Initiation from a qualified Lama. Then do a very powerful dedication, to Yamantaka at the end and that will be very good. I think thats a clearer way of saying it. The benefit of that is, that if we do Yamantakas practice, we can overcome our inner, real, self-grasping anger. RETREAT Yamantaka Practice Michoacan, Mexico, This retreat focuses on a detailed presentation of the Deity and how to use it in our daily lives. Now, normally we get down to that subtlest level when we die. Vajrabhairava is powerful enough to overcome and subdue even the most powerful negative emotions. (Now, remember in tantra that having all these faces and arms and legs they all represent different realizations, different aspects of the path that we want to be able to have fully realized simultaneously. Many months passed. I will name a few for you now. She said, You can only take back what you can memorize in seven days. That in itself is a very interesting point, isnt it, that these teachings are really very, very sacred, special, not to be made public, and if you really want them, you have to really, really want it and work really hard, which means memorize it. If youre able to transform the clear light of death into this understanding of voidness, you wont get the aggregates of another samsaric rebirth, so it overcomes the mara of the aggregates. Ra Lotsawa meditated for eleven months. Already in the fourth century you find Yamantaka.. So we get Vajrabhairava in the Buddhist variant, and theyre basically just taking the name of Shiva and adding Vajra in front of it., In one of the Puranas this is a later Hindu text (the Markandeya Purana, if you want to know the name) Shiva subdues Yama, and then Shiva is called Kalantaka, the one who puts an end to kala kala, time, which was another name for Yama. Im always curious why it has a buffalo head. I dont feel like going and helping somebody. You have to cut through that. If one doesnt have time, one should do the short Yamantaka sadhana which is about eight or, seven or eight small pages, written by the great Kyabje Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo Rinpoche. Manjushri is the one that Tsongkhapa had all these visions of and relied on for getting real nonconceptual cognition of voidness., And it goes down the Gelugpa line to, eventually, the Fourth Panchen Lama. Before the fire. It has been identified archaeologically as Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan, present-day Pakistan. There are three forms: Outer, Inner and Secret Dharmaraja. She has calm, partially furious, and fully furious looks. Yamantaka is the wrathful emanation of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. Most of todays commentary teachings are based on the former. I encourage you to have good Guru Devotion. So environmental, meaning place, time meaning how far away it is from the Buddha first turned the wheel of Dharma to the end of the Dharma, which is 5,000 years. From amongst the many lineages of practices to enter Tibet, two translators, Ra Lotsawaand Mal Lotsawa were known to have disseminated the main transmissions of Yamantaka. The former emphasizes practices involving the energy-winds arising in subtle forms known as illusory bodies (Tib: sgyu-lus), which are the immediate causes for achieving a Buddhas body of forms (Tib: gzugs-sku, Skt: rupakaya). The first chapter describes the mandala palace thats to be revealed during the initiation, the offerings to be made, the attainments that you can get, and some brief instructions on doing the retreat to gain powers against harmful interferences. But normally when we experience death, were totally unaware of whats going on we dont recognize the potentials and abilities of that subtlest level of mind. This is earlier than when Hinduism itself became codified, so it was in the pre-Hindu Indian tradition. So Kalantaka, and then you have the Buddhist variant Yamantaka, the one that puts an end to Yama.. From Tibet it spread to Mongolia, and then the Manchus took it up and it was a big practice in Beijing, where the Manchus ruled. Before the Manchus conquered China (in 1644), they had already accepted certain elements of Gelug when they built the Yellow Temple in Mukden, their capital (1636-38). Khenpo Sherab Sangpo suggests that his students recite . Let him decide. So the Fifth Dalai Lama instructed his representative at the Manchu court to banish this Mongol missionary to Hohhot, present-day Inner Mongolia to get him to stop this improper practice of bribing people to do Yamantaka practice. It is even more extraordinary to be able to receive regular guidance from such an experienced practitioner as Les, who has received extensive teachings from Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden . So hence, thats very, very important. But as they extended their hold over the Eastern Mongol regions, they needed to incorporate Yamantaka so as to win over the Eastern Mongols. ), Then theres a six-headed, six-armed, six-legged version or variant, which is mentioned in the, And then theres a four-headed, eight-armed, four-legged variant, which is in the collection of jenangs (these subsequent permissions) called, One way is Well, theres just the Buddhist version. Hence, the person finds it much easier. He is also one of the main yidams in the Sakya school where he comes in a variety of appearances (with different mandalas). If you like, this, this also can be burned. And one should also learn the Lama Chopa Tsog, one should learn the Lama Chopa Tsog, to be done to Yamantaka every two weeks. So, mother tantra and father tantra, both can bring you to Enlightenment, but they focus on different types of afflictions to be converted. This sadhana practice is intended only for those people who have received this. In the other schools of Tibetan Buddhsim, Yamantaka seems to be mostly revered as a protector. The left legs are extended straight and press upon eight birds and various gods; standing above a sun disc and multi-colored lotus completely surrounded by orange flames of pristine awareness. So another name for Yama is Kalarupa, and you find this in the protector practices. So already in this iconography or mythology whatever you want to call it already you have Yama associated with a water buffalo. Yamantaka Empowerment As Part of Teachings in Bodhgaya. (This is the Tibetan story, by the way.) So if we didnt do that, imagine how powerful Yamantaka is, even still. Yama also appears as one of the eight directional protectors that appear, one each, in the eight charnel grounds that surround many anuttarayoga tantra mandalas, such as Yamantaka, Vajrapani Mahachakra, Chakrasamvara, Vajrayogini and Hevajra. And it works but not by some power of some magic or miracle. Remember in the beginning we were talking about how ordinarily when we die, the level of mental activity that we have is this subtlest clear-light level, the so-called clear light of death. So, for example, the higher father tantras are like, higher mother tantras are like Kalachakra, Heruka, the higher father tantras are, for example, like, Guhyasamaja. You could have a dog that does that. Should you wish to practice a brief visualisation and mantra recitation for Vajrasattva, recite the following: Yamantaka's command carries tremendous power to perform purification, enhancement, harmonization and subjugation. Thats a Buddha as understood in tantra. You even get Mahakala associated here, which literally means the great form of time. But whats interesting is the Tibetans translated kala here as black (nag-po), so Mahakala is called the Great Black One (Nag-po chen-po) in Tibetan. And then it has to be decoded from it. So already you get that name Dharmaraja in the non-Buddhist context. Its the fact that a Buddha can appear in any form whatsoever in order to be able to benefit others. It dependently arises. So hence, it has those kind of benefits. So I hear that you have Yamantakas teachings. Each face has three large round eyes, bared fangs and frightful expressions; brown hair flows upward like flames. When he gave the teachings, the Guru manifested from his heart a huge mandala with myriads of dakas and dakinis making preparation for teachings, arranging the throne, etc. Youre just praying Oh God, give me a clear mind, and God in the form of Manjushri gives you it Woo-ooh-ooh! and now you have a clear mind? Not like that, please. It can also subdue the four maras, Devaputra mara, Skanda mara, Klesa mara, and Mrtyu mara. In Buddhism, Yamntaka is a wrathful expression of Majur, the bodhisattva of wisdom who, in other contexts, also functions as a dharmapala or a Heruka. Advanced visualizations of Vajrasattva include his consort, representing the Wisdom of Emptiness. Kriya Tantra: The Four Types of Mental Stability, The Nature of Appearances: Madhyamaka & Highest Tantra, The Nature of Appearances: Gelug Explanation - Part 5 of 5. If one form becomes too popularized so that it becomes commonplace and trivialized as in having Kalachakra T-shirts and this sort of thing then theres usually a revelation of another form because it really has to be something sacred and private, not something popular. So one has to be very, very careful. Yamantaka's practice is only available for those who are initiated but those who do not have his practice can still have his image and make offerings for great protection, the blessings of a Buddha and to create a connection or cause towards receiving his practice in the future and achieving attainments through his practice. Now, why a water buffalo I can only guess. Black Yamari and Red Yamari dont have a buffalo head. Now lets become a little bit like scientists and look to see does this make any sense from a historical point of view. Ven. Yamantaka Meditation. Next to where the Eastern Mongols lived were the Manchus. I am fully satisfied with your progress. In this way, Ra Lotsawa had much hardship in bringing this teaching to Tibet. Its dynasty ruled for a long time that whole area from Eastern Iran all the way over to north-central India, and so you had there a mixture of Iranian and ancient Indian ideas and mythology and various religious ideas, terminology, and so on. Outer and Secret forms have buffalo heads, the Secret Yamaraja form does not. The Fourth Dalai Lama was Mongolian, so the Fourth Panchen Lama had a strong connection with the Mongols. Dharma in that tradition means justice, justice in the sense of what maintains the order of karma in terms of rebirth. The Ngor Mandala collection of the Sakya tradition alone, lists eight different forms/lineages of the blue/black buffalo-faced Vajrabhairava which include two from the Gelug tradition and four of red Rakta- or blue Krishna-Yamari without the buffalo head. yamantaka mantra benefits . and then theres another one, Vajra Arali which Ive never heard of anybody actually practicing which is transforming naivety or unawareness into a path. He then killed the two thieves and drank their blood from cups made from their skulls (so the skull-cup image). Her physique is robust, matching that of Yamantaka. Its supposed to be kept that way because it could be completely misunderstood as some horrible thing, and that practitioners actually go out and kill people. So Yamantaka is already one of the protectors on this wheel in Guhyasamaja as well as on this wheel in the Yamantaka and Hevajra practices. This is Yama, and already hes associated with wisdom, being very intelligent., Later, in one of the Upanishads, the Katha Upanishad, Yama is a teacher, and so hes even further associated with wisdom. So the Second Buddha is called Gyalwa Nyipa. This cleansing is most easily accomplished at this time of the year and helps to decrease suffering and increase peace. Siklos, Bulcsu, The Vajrabhairava Tantras (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua VII). You dont need to get many, many other initiations. And so in the context of Mahayana the Great Vehicle, the Vast Vehicle we want to not just gain liberation ourselves, but we want to attain the state of a Buddha so that we can benefit everybody equally, not just a few. In the highest class of tantra, we hear a lot about using or transforming the disturbing emotions into helping us in the path. And along with that, it would be very, very good for us, to also have an inner offering, meaning for Yamantakas practice its very important to have an inner offering, you can either use a small bit of alcohol or black tea, either way with a qualified Rilbu. So what does this tell us? So for this, Yamantaka is the best strong on the outside, Manjushri (wisdom, calm, clear) on the inside. This is how that came about. They all embody wrathful aspects of peaceful Manjushri as well as, in some cases, Yamnatakas consort, Vajravetali, the wrathful nature of Saraswati. So the people of Tibet were afraid for their lives, and they prayed to Manjushri to listen to them. This is what we hear from the Buddhist version of the history. The protectors are like a dog, a very vicious, powerful dog. The following 36 files are in this category, out of 36 total. One collects a great amount of merit. The one that is commonly practiced in the Gelug has nine heads, thirty-four arms, and sixteen legs. He has three red, blood-shot eyes; his breath swirls from the anger-creased nose in black clouds, his jaw wide agape with four sharp fangs bared, the tongue flickering like lightning, and orange hair, eyebrows and moustache bristling upward like the fire. So it has to be explained by a teacher, and thats the aspect of secrecy in this tantra system. the arising of Vajrabhairava from voidness and then Manjushri, as in the sadhana, with the full description of the visualization of the full Vajrabhairava (single deity), with mention of recitation of the mantra 300,000 times for the short retreat. In the Gelug tradition it is the container, as I said, in which all the other practices can be done. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.jpg 2,299 3,845; 7.75 MB. Rinpoche then discusses the benefits of three particular mantras: A A SHA SA MA HA, the Six Clairvoyances Mantraafter fifteen days of seeing this mantra all the heavy negative karmas you collected in past lives are purified. His main teacher, Gyume Khenzur Rinpoche Ugyen Tseten, the retired abbot of Lower Tantric College. When you talk about different cultures being present in one area, they dont exist in isolation, do they, in isolation from each other?. May 29, 2022 in new york v united states quizlet. So, therefore out of the various sets of Yamantaka tantras, he took out two sets of Yamantaka tantras. One needs to be very serious about any type of tantra practice. Interferences that are supernatural in nature, magic, ghosts, spirits, cannot disturb that person, cannot disturb that person that he has blessed, or she has blessed. by Jamyang Khyentse Chkyi Lodr. Both practice texts are available in English translation on this website. Such as killing ones father and mother, drawing blood from a Buddha, or creating schism in the Sangha, those are heinous crimes, where when you die, there is no Bardo, you immediately die, you close your eyes, when you open it, you are born in Hell. Manjushri acts as the focus for this with a sword, sharp, to cut through your confusion and because you have such force for wanting to get that clarity of mind and that understanding, your mind comes together, and it is clearer. Now, personally I find this very interesting. So if you have received the empowerment, its a very, very important, very helpful, and very strong practice to involve yourself with, very effective. (The mandala is the palace in which we live as this figure: not that theres a kitchen and a living room or anything like that, but were in this palace. How do you envision such a person in terms of your goal, in terms of your method? And so this (motivation) is an enormous, tremendous compassion for everybody. He himself wrote commentaries, his students also wrote commentaries on the practice of Yamantaka, and hence today the Yamantaka practice is very prevalent, very powerful and extremely widespread because of these great writings and Lama Tsongkhapas own personal practice. Like other wrathful deities, Yamantaka gives the forces of the Shadow [in the Jungian sense] a symbol that hooks their energy and provides a channel and direction for their expression and transformation (Preece, p. 187). That ignorance is, is manifested as grasping of the self that does not exist. Thats called the Avesta, just as the proto-Hindus have the Vedas. But its a water buffalo. Other emanations of Yamantaka appear as residents in various mandalas (13-, 17-, 21-, and 49-Deity). So they basically bribed the people to adopt Yamantaka, like the Christian missionaries are doing now in Mongolia, paying people to go to church, so it's a similar type of thing. So this guy does this practice, and he gets a vision Go to Swat and he believes it. You find that in so many cultures some sort of judge who acts as the Lord of Death. Hence, within this, the Sutra path is much longer. The second of the five special features is that in two of his hands he holds intestines and a triangular fire stove. See also: What Is Chakrasamvara Practice?]. There was one big Sakya lama who was out there, and he complained to the Manchu ruler, saying Come on. His hundred-syllable mantra is the quintessence of all mantras. one must have received the empowerment of Vajrabhairava (i.e., Yamantaka), completed an authorizing retreat of 100,000 mantras together with the traditional concluding fire puja. When he went in, he saw a Yamantaka painting on the wall with five offerings before it. Regardless which manifestation of Vajrabhairava you are looking at, he is always depicted as fear-inducing, scary, and intimidating. To receive it there are many requirements: (1) very strong faith in the Guru, (2) many offerings made to please the dakas and dakinis, (3) offerings of what is most precious to you as a way to overcome your self-grasping and perfect your practice of far-reaching generosity. According to the Ngor Mandalas which correspond to the 139 mandalas of the rgyud sde kun btus (collection of initiation texts, sadhanas, and explanations for those deities) the following individual variations can be distinguished: In the context of this website, we focus on the two main forms practiced as meditational deities in the Gelug school. So he bribed people; he said, Memorize the mantra. This whole thing of making requests you have to really understand what that means. [See: Explaining Vajra Expressions: 6 Alternatives & 4 Modes.] People can attain enlightenment with these. What are these three texts? There was a holy man who was told that if he meditated for the next fifty years, he would achieve enlightenment. While trying to find him, one day at the bank of a river he saw a boat without an oarsman overturn and all of the passengers drowned. Already before you get the development of Yamantaka as a meditational deity that you actually visualize yourself in that form, already Yamantaka appears as a protector to chase away interference. After having his head cut off, this guy became so angry that he took the head of the buffalo that was cut off and put it on his own head and became Yama, the Lord of Death. The materials include: Practice texts (Sadhanas) for the Single and Thirteen-Deity Yamantaka deities, commentaries and pratice instructions, deity images, protector practices, and other support materials. As general background, we need to have just some general idea of what is tantra about. Hence within the tantric system, you have four sets of tantras: Charya, Yoga, Kriya and Maha Anuttara tantra. And all these different Indian traditions have their own variant of them, their own version. The (mostly secret and arcane) practices involve different activities for various purposes. subsidiary factors for success in the rituals namely helpful factors, the sequence of the practices, and the results attained when they are performed successfully: (a) pacifying brings protection from the eight fears, (b) increase brings the six good qualities, (c) controlling brings success in attaining the white appearance, red increase, black near attainment and clear light, (d) separating brings maintaining secrecy and avoiding the various types of demonic interference, (e) suppressing brings binding the six senses. So to achieve emptiness, Yamantaka is the most profound and the most quickest. All Buddhist textual sources refer to Lalitavajra as the revealer of the Vajrabhairava and Yamari tantras to an originally Indian tantric audience. By virtue he is purely 100% Manjushri and no other. Its totally improper to bribe people to practice this tantra. But the Manchu ruler didnt want to get involved with this, and so he said, Take it to the Fifth Dalai Lama. A Buddha that appears and teaches the tantras is yet another type of Buddha. In that he says, Yamantaka, throw your wheel of sharp weapons. All this is in the condensed root tantra. Are they all Shakyamuni? and its nothing from its own side you cant find it as anything from its own side and yet all three are valid. As everybody says although a lot of people dont take it very seriously tantra is very, very advanced. Or you could try to look at it to see that what is said in the Buddhist version does have some historical reference, that the whole development of tantra is really a general thing going on in India, a general way of practicing, and that you have different schools, whether Hindu or Buddhist, each working with it and trying to find the most efficient method for attaining their goals (liberation or enlightenment the way that each of them define it). Number three. The text emphasizes the need for confident belief in the practices, having no doubts or dualistic thinking, not separating the rituals from the mantra recitation, relying on spiritual teacher and confidence in him. Plus it has all these horrible descriptions of these rituals for smashing and killing and doing all sorts of horrible things with these sharp weapons, this wheel of weapons. Then joining the deep awareness wheel with the drawn commitment wheel. Already there was an association between the Manchus and the Dalai Lamas. Anywhere else would be too distracting. The Guru was very stubborn. Scientists who cares about what they say?, Or we could be Buddhologists scientists and look at archaeology and all these Sanskrit texts, and so on, and The Buddhist stories and so on, this is just nice mythology.. So you find this very interesting, very odd way in which Yamantaka practice then becomes so popular among the Mongols and the Manchus, and you find big statues and things in Beijing and in other parts of China. So hence, while were practicing Yamantaka were not also practicing only tantra, were practicing sutra because Yamantakas path combines both sutra and tantra. Ra Lotsawa asked him to please come to the monastery to give teachings, but the Guru said, This is the place. Then one should do, use a inner offering every single day, as part of the practice and make torma offerings, also two sets of sensory offerings and the sets of sensory offerings is very important. lionel richie lytham st annes. 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