Not only is he terrifying to look at but according to the Vajrabhairava Tantra he also has conquered all evil spirits, including the Lord of Death, Yama. Thats not the Buddha that theyre talking about. Its not an easy trip., I always find it quite helpful to think of these things as actually happening, not just some legend. We already explained how this practice transforms it so that you dont experience ordinary death you change that experience in terms of the clear-light mind, using that to get the understanding of voidness. He went back to Mongolia, to the very most eastern tribes of the Mongols and he was like a missionary. For ease of discussion, Ill just call it Ogyen since thats what its called in Tibetan. He came from Odisha. Memorize your Bodhisattva and Tantric Vows and practice your Bodhisattva and Tantric Vows, because holding the vows will be a very important point for you to achieve Yamantakas attainments. So we have this whole development within the non-Buddhist Indian context of Yama, the Lord of Death, and even putting an end to Yama in the Shiva complex.. Dont fail to request him! But the next day when he came he had missed the Guru. How do you envision such a person in terms of your goal, in terms of your method? Anger that arises from self-grasping, can be reduced and can be destroyed, can be purified. And so he wondered, Who is this Vajrabhairava? It says: Vajravega is the forceful form of Kalachakra. Theres this whole thing that you get in the study of mythology to see what are the lessons behind the mythology, and is there a deeper psychological thing that is going on, and so on. This nine-headed form appears either in a forty-nine-deity mandala, a thirteen-deity mandala, or a single-deity mandala. Vajrabhairava is powerful enough to overcome and subdue even the most powerful negative emotions. 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. Siklos, Bulcsu, The Vajrabhairava Tantras (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua VII). (4) The fourth point is that the fire stove also indicates not just the clear-light practices from Guhyasamaja but that the deep awareness gained through this practice is greater than any other. And so, similar to that, you always set up a protection space. We have this division in anuttarayoga tantra, the Gelugpa version of anuttarayoga tantra, of the obscure (or hidden or secret) tantras (sbas-rgyud) and the clear tantra (gsal-rgyud) (which is Kalachakra). This whole thing of making requests you have to really understand what that means. This sadhana practice is intended only for those people who have received this Highest Yoga Tantra Initiation from a qualified Lama. Buddha appears in a stupa, and theres the dakinis, and all this sort of stuff. For those who are interested in iconography, Black Yamari is either with: Red Yamari is usually just in the one head, two arms, two-legged version. He has thirty-four hands and sixteen legs. They built the Forbidden City and the Imperial City, and all these things, and it was envisioned and laid out like a Yamantaka mandala, and the emperor was Yamantaka in the center of this. The (mostly secret and arcane) practices involve different activities for various purposes. So with understanding, we want to cut through these grosser levels with all the confusion with a lot of strength and get down to the subtlest level. So what we need to do is to somehow gain access to this subtlest level and not only stay with it, but work with it to transform it into the body, speech, and mind of a Buddha. He was a master at Nalanda University. by . So hence, while were practicing Yamantaka were not also practicing only tantra, were practicing sutra because Yamantakas path combines both sutra and tantra. So hence, within the father and the mother you have these divisions, but, what is most superior, and what is most powerful, and what is most extremely beneficial is a combination of mother and father tantra. I encourage you to have good Guru Devotion. yamantaka mantra benefits. And in fact he meets a female practitioner, a so-called deep-awareness dakini (ye-shes mkha-gro). 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. (In tantra every deity appears in so many different forms, so you shouldnt think Oh, theres only one and then freak out when you hear that theres something else.) Ra Lotsawa requested further, but they didnt even know the name or form of Yamantaka., One day, Ra Lotsawa followed the Guru to a cave, where the Guru always went. To this very day it is considered one of the most important yidam practices, both for monastic and lay practitioners alike. That is not the full teaching. So he went back to the Guru and requested the actual teaching. Regardless which manifestation of Vajrabhairava you are looking at, he is always depicted as fear-inducing, scary, and intimidating. The binding factors that keeps us in Samsara is, ignorance. It dependently arises. Please continue to make your life most meaningful ,with the thought of bodhicitta in every action that you do. So now we have to qualify what I just said. 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. All of that is implicit in these various rituals and things that are explained in the texts which sound as though they are horrible black magic for actually harming others, harmful beings, whereas the intention is for harming the internal enemy, our own selfishness. Theres the so-called Manjushri Root Tantra (Arya-manjushri-mulakalpa). Hence, thats called habituation. Vajrabhairava is the one with the buffalo head and the Manjushri head above it, and he appears in three basic forms. Yamantaka also appears in other tantras before Lalitavajras time. Thats the Concert of Names of Manjushri, a Kalachakra text (probably also seventh century). Thats one of the early tantras that was translated into Tibetan and which was incorporated in the Nyingma textual tradition. Important historical commentaries were written by Tri Gyaltsen Senghe for the Solitary Hero practice and Lhundup Pandita for the 13-Deity practice; both have been translated. 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. The one that is commonly practiced in the Gelug has nine heads, thirty-four arms, and sixteen legs. The Yamantaka drubchen, traditionally held near the end of the Tibetan year, is conducted in order to cleanse all obstacles not only for oneself, but for every being in the world. So everybody really thought this was very special and worshipped there. That was kept in the Dharmaganja Stupa it was kept inside which was venerated by all the dakinis. The root mantra, the third one you should do as much as possible even while youre watching TV and youre free, you can do that mantra. And so the protectors are like this vicious dog, and you have to be the very strong Vajrabhairava in order to control that dog; otherwise its going to bite you. We think how awful it is that everybodys suffering, and we really want to work with an unbelievable amount of effort to actually attain the state of a Buddha so that we can be of best help to everyone. In general Buddhas teaching is as wide and deep as the ocean and tantra is like a wish-fulfilling gem in the ocean. It was existent but not popular till Lama Tsongkhapa himself found various types of Yamantaka tantras, example, from the Kagyu and the Sakya. [See: Explaining Vajra Expressions: 6 Alternatives & 4 Modes.] It is one of the mother tantra deity systems within which the six yogas of Naropa are practiced. Last but not least, read up on your Bodhisattva Vows, read up on your Tantric Vows. And it works but not by some power of some magic or miracle. Although practiced early on in Tibet by the Sakya and Kagyu Traditions, it was Tsongkapa, founder of the Gelug Tradition, who instituted Vajrabhairava as the principal Gelugpa meditation practice. So in the sensory offerings Yamantaka, the GHENDE, or the perfume is after the flower. So I hope that when you took the initiation, you werent given a cow as well to bribe you into doing the practice!. Ven. Many of the Eastern Mongols had already accepted Tibetan Buddhism at this time, but Neiji Toin wanted to convert the remaining shamanistic Eastern Mongol tribes and get them to accept the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism particularly with the practice of Yamantaka. Alright, you should read the Six Session Guru Yoga every day, three in the morning, three at night or you can do six times in one shot, it doesnt take very long. According to some scholars thats already by the fourth century. Its not like that. It is one of the mother tantra deity systems within which the six yogas of Naropa are practiced. Exposing these teachings is like exposing their heart. The name Bhairava indicating one of Shivas main forms and the various attributes/implements like the trident, tiger-skin, ashes, drum (Skt: damaru), etc. See also: What Is Chakrasamvara Practice?]. Both practice texts are available in English translation on this website. In the highest class of tantra, we hear a lot about using or transforming the disturbing emotions into helping us in the path. And every single day one should make biscuits and cookies, offer one main biscuit, one main cookie to Yamantaka and two smaller ones, one to the entourage and one to the Directional Protectors at the end of the sadhana. (5) And the fifth point is that to attain enlightenment we need to rely on the deep awareness of Manjushri. The Vajrabhairava Tantra belongs to the father tantra using negative emotions such as anger and hatred as the path. After the thirteenth month he had a full vision of Yamantaka. He adopted this form in order to defeat Yama, the lord of death who was arrogantly interfering with karma by claiming victims before their time was up. That is one version that fits in with the Pali canon account of what a Buddha is. Yamantaka's power and virtue are therefore equal to that of a buddha. Yamantaka is in the form of a very, very strong, forceful figure and has Manjushri in his heart (so very peaceful, calm, the complete understanding of reality ). So were talking about a kingdom up in the mountains of northwestern Pakistan. The basic sahaja (two-armed) form of Vajrabhairava is blue-black in color, with the face of an extremely enraged buffalo; two sharp horns, with flames coming from their tips. If you like, this, this also can be burned. In the highest class of tantra you have four initiations (or four empowerments), and the fourth one is to empower you to do the final, final, final practices where you have the practice of the two truths simultaneously., Thats the only point that is hidden or secret in terms of that division. So the people of Tibet were afraid for their lives, and they prayed to Manjushri to listen to them. Now, when we learn this, what is the effect on us in terms of our practice? There was a holy man who was told that if he meditated for the next fifty years, he would achieve enlightenment. Practice Being Kind Never Undo the Past Appreciate What You Have Practice being Calm always Be Compassionate to Everyone Reach Your Full Potential by eliminating Fear Have Peace in Your Heart Let Your Light Shine Thru What can I do to make a meaningful difference in the World May All Beings enjoy Happiness Hindi Posters When he went in, he saw a Yamantaka painting on the wall with five offerings before it. 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. This evening Ive been asked to give an introduction to the Vajrabhairava (rDo-rje 'jigs-byed) system of the highest class of tantra, anuttarayoga tantra. So hence, thats very, very important. ), 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. It tells us that there are many, many ways and many appearances of all these various Buddha-figures. And if people try to do it and use these disturbing emotions before they are at a sufficiently highly developed level, the danger is that they really come under the influence of anger and desire, and then its a disaster. Then you get three different ways of looking at the same thing. One of the attributes of Yamantaka is, no matter how much negative karma we have collected, no matter how much negative deeds we have done, no matter how much suffering we have created for others, if we sincerely regret, and we do Yamantakas tantra, within one single short lifetime, we can purify that negative karma. Shantideva points out that there are two supports of it: Excuse me if Im speaking a little bit strongly, but this is Yamantaka, and I had strong coffee before I started the lecture supporting circumstances. Having the the opportunity to practise Yamantaka is extremely rare. So like that there are many, many, many, many benefits to doing Yamantakas tantra. He also appears as one of the eight non-Buddhist deities found, one each, in eight of the skullcups held by Hevajra. So thats a little bit different. Transcribed by Tenzin Losang The type of Buddha that is in the Mahayana sutras is a completely different type of Buddha. So already you get that name Dharmaraja in the non-Buddhist context. detailed instructions with measurements for drawing a weapon-wheel used for pacifying, increase, control and forceful actions, then the gathering of the syllables to be placed on the weapon-wheel. So you read them, and you see that it has a full description of Yamantaka and what he looks like and what hes holding, So much is totally explicitly explained there and you say, What? Ive made offerings to Manjushri for you, for the success of your practice. So I have received your wonderful offering, and I thank you. 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. Now, within those so-called hidden tantras in which the fourth initiation is hidden, you have different systems: you have mother tantra (ma-rgyud); you have father tantra (pha-rgyud). I personally find it quite fascinating and actually quite helpful to see what actually has happened with this practice, how does it actually fit into history, the religious development, and so on. Thats really quite odd, isnt it? But now its with a totally calm understanding of reality that we can apply in meditation at this time of clear light in order to be able to get: If we do this often enough and strongly enough, were able to stay like that forever. And one collects great amount of merit while one is perpetuating Yamantaka. In the Buddhist variant, Yamantaka overcomes Yama like Shiva overcame Yama using the name Kala, Kalantaka. 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). Are they all the same person that you find in the Pali canon, that you find in the Mahayana sutras, that you find in the tantra texts? In the Gelug school, Yama- or Dharmaraja is part of the Vajrabhairava practice. A water buffalo is very, very strong and is used for work in India and its specified as a male water buffalo, not a female water buffalo so its very strong. So, no other tantra, no other tantric system, no other sutra system, can promise us to purify, example, even if we have created the most heinous crimes. No other deity is more wrathful than Yamantaka. Right? And theres an enormous amount of teachings. Je Pabongka Rinpoche. Himalayan Traditionally Hand-Made Religious Statue Namgyalma Mantra Our very skilled artisan carved this beautiful statue for Namgyalma Mantra using traditional techniques passed from his family lineage. There was one big Sakya lama who was out there, and he complained to the Manchu ruler, saying Come on. These are called the Three Rounds of Tantras (rGyud-skor gsum). Yamantaka's command carries tremendous power to perform purification, enhancement, harmonization and subjugation. Im always curious why it has a buffalo head. Manjushri told him, Go to Ogyen, to Oddiyana, and there youll find the full teachings of Vajrabhairava., So he traveled from Nalanda Nalandas in central India, north of Bodh Gaya, not that far from Bodh Gaya. Welcome to the world of Tibetan Buddhism! And if youre going to do it, you do it every day for the rest of your life. Anyway, enough of history and stories. Then it becomes a little bit more understandable. And then it has to be decoded from it. Anyway, what followed from this is very fascinating. There are many, many powers to doing Yamantakas tantra. Both do both, but the emphasis is different. As Vajradhara or, here, appearing as Yamantaka or appearing as Chakrasamvara or as Kalachakra a Buddha appears in all these different forms of deities and at any time of history, but its not a historically definite time. Why? Whats the difference between the two? Thats the ancient, ancient Indian text. Within the Maha Anuttara tantra, you have two divisions again, ma rgyud and pha rgyud, ma rgyud is mother tantra, pha rgyud is father tantra. And he walks all the way over to Swat Valley in western Pakistan. Otherwise, I wish you the best. He then killed the two thieves and drank their blood from cups made from their skulls (so the skull-cup image). Thats why Yamantaka would also have a buffalo head.. We have all these habits of our confusion all these habits of compulsive behavior based on confusion and disturbing emotions and because of the momentum of so many lifetimes of being under the influence of these habits, what happens? Chakrasamvara (Heruka) is a mother tantra practice of anuttarayoga tantra. (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. He is the ferocious emanation of Manjushree. And then the second one is that you take control of yourself and just do it. So you have this division of mother and father in Gelugpa., So in the Guhyasamaja, its talking about all the very, very advanced practices where you use the energy of desire for getting down to the subtlest level, and that is hidden in a different way with these vajra expressions. Lalitavajra, a 10th-century scholar from the Nalanda monstary in Bihar whose main yidam was Manjushri, one day had a vision of the deity telling him to go to the land of Oddiyana and retrieve the tantras of Yamantaka. 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. With Yamantaka's tantra alone one can become fully Enlightened. So it is saying The vajra with the lotus and the this and that, and you have no idea what theyre talking about. Dharma in that tradition means justice, justice in the sense of what maintains the order of karma in terms of rebirth. So Yamantakas practice is very, very powerful, extremely, extremely powerful for removing the self-grasping I that doesnt exist. Were talking about the early seventeenth century. So Dharmaraja, the King of Dharma, is also a name that is applied to Yama, who is then taken later into Buddhism as a protector (hes tamed by Yamantaka and made into a protector). They are tamed and then given a pledge by Guru Rinpoche or by many other figures to protect practitioners. Are they all Shakyamuni? So, the only higher tantric system that focuses on both mother and father combined simultaneously is the Yamantaka set of tantras. 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. 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). After His Holiness had taken his seat on the throne, Theravada monks once again chanted the Mangala Sutta in Pali. those that use desire as a path (Guhyasamaja is the example). I will name a few for you now. And, as Shantideva dedicates in the tenth chapter of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior: Our ability to maintain and further expand our website totally depends on your support. I dont feel like going and helping somebody. You have to cut through that. Now we get to Lalitavajra (Rol-pai rdo-rje) in the tenth century. 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. Om Mani is one of the few most-famed Buddhist mantras that most Asian Buddhists, mainly the Tibetans, put their firm believe in and recite regularly. The passage of time brings death, doesnt it? Remember this association of Yamantaka with Manjushri? Yamantaka's command carries tremendous power to perform purification, enhancement, harmonization and subjugation. So one can do a Yamantaka torma, an entourage of Yamantaka torma, and a ten wrathful deity which you will see in a sadhana torma. Now, just one last thing that I want to mention here is that there are five special features of Vajrabhairava practice that were revealed to Tsongkhapa by Manjushri. All these names that you hear for Yama in the protector practices Dharmaraja, Yamaraja (King Yama) all of that already you have in the non-Buddhist variant. He was the first mortal to die, and thus, because of that, he became the Lord of Death. Its (2) You remember I said that Vajrabhairava is the container within which you combine Guhyasamaja practices and Chakrasamvara practices in the Gelugpa way of practicing? By the way, if you dont know the geography, were talking about the region which is You know where Khabarovsk is? Brief Vajrasattva Visualisation and Mantra Recitation. So we are aiming to become a Buddha ourselves, and we need to have a body, speech, and mind of a Buddha, and we need to be able to attain all of those in the most efficient way. It is possible, though, that in western Tibet (Ngari) where Atisha taught, Vajrabhairava teachings were already present directly via Ugyen. You understand on a deeper level a Buddhist analysis of different points of view. Well, heres a very good example. So, mother tantra and father tantra, both can bring you to Enlightenment, but they focus on different types of afflictions to be converted. Theres no separate me experiencing it.) The Fourth Panchen Lama was the tutor of both the Fourth and the Fifth Dalai Lamas. I think its very important to be realistic and understand that Buddhism did not develop in a vacuum. So, that type of suffering that we have to endure, by Yamantaka holding that man on a stick, represents that even some karma that means you have to really go to the Three Lower Realms, to Hell to suffer, you can purify through Yamantaka tantra. Within Buddhism, "terminating death" is a quality of all buddhas as they have stopped the cycle of rebirth, samsara. 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. In Vajrayana Buddhism, Vajrabhairava, also known as Yamantaka, is (1) a wrathful, buffalo-headed meditational deity (Tib: yi-dam) of the Highest Yoga Tantra class and/or (2) a dharma protector. How do you describe this person? 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. His main teacher, Gyume Khenzur Rinpoche Ugyen Tseten, the retired abbot of Lower Tantric College. His two horns symbolize two truth. Remember Yamantaka is the one that puts an end to Yama (Yama is the Lord of Death), and remember I explained the whole reason why you want to get rid of ordinary death.. When in union, he is so with his consort, Vajravetali (Skt: for Adamantine Ghoul; Tib: rDor-rje ro-lang-ma), who has one face, two hands, and is blue in color with orange hair pressed against her back, holding a skull cup in her left hand. In both schools, Vajrabhairava is seen as the wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, the Buddha of wisdom. Another benefit is within Yamantakas tantra, within Yamantakas tantra, if you practice, it is said that you do not need to practice any other tantras whatsoever, no other tantra is necessary to become Enlightened. And both Yama and Yamantaka have a buffalo head, a water buffalo head. Its very interesting. Numerous discourses on the fire puja, the self-initiation, the mandala measurements, and many of the auxiliary practices of Yamantaka from Serkong Rinpoche. Its very important to read the Lamrim, The Wheel of Sharp Weapons, and also to focus on Guru Devotion, having powerful Guru Devotion is very important and focusing on your yidam, Yamantaka. Vajrabhairava is using the forceful energy, like of anger but not really anger, because with anger you are completely exaggerating the negative qualities of something, grasping to it to be truly existent, and then I have to get it away from me. Its not that kind of anger, but its the energy of that and its using that, as I said, to forcefully cut through all your ignorance and your self-cherishing and selfishness and so on. waz film plot; asus vivobook pro fingerprint driver; hovercraft for sale australia And this historical stuff is unimportant. Yamantaka Self-Initiation PDF -This practice is restricted to only those with the appropriate tantric empowerment. Thats in the seventh century. luis urdaneta monat venezuela. Not that I want to scare anybody, but be realistic. One is a realistic attitude you realistically accept that its going to be difficult and take a long time. Hence, within this, the Sutra path is much longer. 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