Thats our ordinary type of death. 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. The lineage of the practices, like the sadhana, goes down the line from Ra Lotsawa in the Kadam tradition as well as in the Sakya tradition, and it goes down to Tsongkhapa. Im saying this not to say Im a great yogi which Im obviously not but the point is that if you want to actually practice any of these things, you need to get the teachings over and over again, many teachings. It is not to be given lightly. 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. But if you understand the way that ancient Indian society functioned, then you see that all of these people lived together, and so you have this common pool there. That has to be explained by a teacher. The Yamantaka empowerment is a secret mantra empowerment of the highest class known as Highest Yoga Tantra. 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. Yamantaka (gShin-rje gshed, gShin-rje mthar-byed) is specifically the type of practice that is done to overcome death. And he walks all the way over to Swat Valley in western Pakistan. Are they all Shakyamuni? It was a woman who transmitted all of this and got it all started. So, within the mother tantra you focus on clear light, within the father tantra you focus on illusory body Consequently the practice became one of the three principal tantras taught at the tantric colleges and monastic universities. We need a combination of compassion we want to help others and force and strength that Im not going to let all this junk thats going on in my mind prevent me from being able to help others, like laziness: I dont feel like doing it. So, Yamantaka's practice is very powerful for protecting oneself against negative, destructive energy. There is also an emanation of Yamantaka (called Yamantaka or Yamantakrt) in the Ten Wrathful Ones / Uncommon Protection Wheel of the Vajrabhairava and Guhyasamaja practices. It can also subdue the four maras, Devaputra mara, Skanda mara, Klesa mara, and Mrtyu mara. And all these different Indian traditions have their own variant of them, their own version. Vajravetali is the emanation of White Saraswati (dbyans can ma dkar mo). Ive made offerings to Manjushri for you, for the success of your practice. The protectors are like a dog, a very vicious, powerful dog. Thats not the meaning. That level of mind is more subtle than the disturbing emotions, so it defeats the mara of the disturbing emotions. Yamantaka's power and virtue are therefore equal to that of a buddha. It comes already in this early time. Dont fail to request him! But the next day when he came he had missed the Guru. And one of Atishas teachers was Dharmarakshita, who was the author of this mind training (lojong) called Wheel of Sharp Weapons (Theg-pa chen-poi blo-sbyong mtshon-cha khor-lo). Mother tantra emphasizes the practices for getting the clear-light mind (od-gsal) and understanding of voidness and the mind of a Buddha. 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. Meditation on the deity, Yamantaka with it's five unique features is considered a crucial practice for our times. As Bulcsu Siklos explains in his book, the lineage of the Vajrabhairava tantra texts was brought to Tibet by Atisha, who had many Indian masters. Dancing costume and mask of Yamantaka, worn by Tibetan monks (Buddhists) during Cham Dance. Buddhism is an Indian religion, an Indian system, and it shares many, many, many things in common with what later becomes Hinduism and Jainism. He then killed the two thieves and drank their blood from cups made from their skulls (so the skull-cup image). One Eastern Mongol a Torgud Mongol came to study with the Fourth Panchen Lama, called Neiji Toin. This page was last edited on 3 April 2016, at 14:10. [See: Explaining Vajra Expressions: 6 Alternatives & 4 Modes.] Vajrabhairava is the one with the buffalo head and the Manjushri head above it, and he appears in three basic forms. They all embody wrathful aspects of peaceful Manjushri as well as, in some cases, Yamnatakas consort, Vajravetali, the wrathful nature of Saraswati. By the way, if you dont know the geography, were talking about the region which is You know where Khabarovsk is? After these thirteen months, he met the Guru again at the monastery and reported all of his insights. And in the Avesta you also find Yama here its called Yima and hes also the first man to die, and he also becomes the guardian of the hells. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.jpg 2,299 3,845; 7.75 MB. Welcome to the world of Tibetan Buddhism! 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. 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. Whos this Yamantaka? He tried to locate a tantra text in India of Vajrabhairava, but he couldnt find anything. And also individual, meaning the aptitude of the person, and karmic dispositions, means their previous life connections and their ability and their need to practice. During that period of death whats called the clear light of death before the bardo (the in-between state) and rebirth, we are just experiencing that clear-light level. And it works but not by some power of some magic or miracle. Its very, very delicate. So every single day, the bare minimum for the first, second and fourth mantra, is 21 times. 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). 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. You have Yamantaka appearing in Guhyasamaja already. Well, youd have to say, Yes, theyre all the same person. According to tradition, however, Buddha taught Guhyasamaja to King Indrabhuti of Ogyen, who ruled during the second half of eighth century. 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, hence, many things we do come from second nature that are embedded within our mindstream for many lifetimes. All of that is completely clear in these texts. So what we want to do is to be able to overcome that kind of death and instead be able, in our meditation, to get to that subtlest level of mental activity. Thats one of the teachings of whats called virya, perseverance, one of the six far-reaching attitudes. In other words, our mental activity during that short period of death is just this subtlest, subtlest level. From amongst the many lineages of practice to enter Tibet, the main transmissions of Vajrabhairava were those of the two translators Ra Lotsawa and Mal Lotsawa. All the various Indian deities, these various figures, are always riding on top of something. That is one version that fits in with the Pali canon account of what a Buddha is. I think thats a clearer way of saying it. Outer and Secret forms have buffalo heads, the Secret Yamaraja form does not. 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. After His Holiness had taken his seat on the throne, Theravada monks once again chanted the Mangala Sutta in Pali. . This is the level that goes on from lifetime to lifetime and will continue into Buddhahood. In general Buddhas teaching is as wide and deep as the ocean and tantra is like a wish-fulfilling gem in the ocean. Contact: a.sofialopez99@gmail.com. Representing as 34 arms holding all the tantra symbols and sixteen feet symbolize sixteen types of emptiness. 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. The following 36 files are in this category, out of 36 total. And so this (motivation) is an enormous, tremendous compassion for everybody. (Of course we can get very complicated and sophisticated here if we want to go further in this discussion, and I find it very helpful to analyze.) By ordering . [See: What Is Guhyasamaja Practice? 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. When the Manchus conquered China, they identified themselves with Yamantaka and Vajrabhairava and Manjushri. After all, in Buddhism it says that a Buddha will appear in a place where people are receptive, where its most needed, and will teach in a way that the people of the time can understand (thats called skillful means). A student asked Rinpoche about putting Yamantaka mantras inside a prayer wheel. 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. How could the historical Buddha teach like that?. Seng Piow here can give you the tsog dates, which is twice a month for the next year, and the year after that, if he has. It has been identified archaeologically as Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan, present-day Pakistan. If you work with very strong energy, the danger is that you become reckless and the energy takes over, and that quickly goes into anger, doesnt it? Now, he wanted to take more, and the dakini told him, Thats enough. It says: Vajravega is the forceful form of Kalachakra. Origins Before the fire. So he walks all the way over there. Now you have no more obstacles and have been uplifted by Buddhas compassion., The Guru then told Ra Lotsawa to make preparation for the teachings in a different place. But if its, if things change because we understand, then things would have changed because many people understand that point once they have studied Buddhism. Out of these words you can derive all the different levels of practice, and it presents a system. 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. And it says that this is supposed to be kept secret, private, so why? Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested that only those who have received full initiation into the Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Yamantaka (Dorje Jigje) read this book, however, two chapters are available here for the general public to read. So because youve made this offering it inspires me to give you a little bit of information, a little bit of talk and explanation of Yamantaka, which should be translated to you, and you can listen to it very carefully. This is, just in very general terms, a little bit of what is Yamantaka all about for those who might not have so much of a background. Proofread by Sarah Yap Then the second chapter, rituals using various devices for extremely forceful actions against harmful beings. And the palace every little feature of it represents some other aspect of the path and realization. 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. Its not just ethnologically fascinating but actually its very helpful to see that there is historical evidence and a historical development of why we had these practices, why they were in this form, and why they developed where they developed not just some fantasy story of some Buddhists. Theres a general pan-Indic reservoir of ideas, concepts things like karma, things like rebirth, various deities, and so on. So dont get too attached to one form, thinking that This is the way that it is and My tradition is correct, and all the others are wrong. Thats a very closed-minded attitude. 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. As general background, we need to have just some general idea of what is tantra about. Shes called Vajravetali, or Dorje Rolangma (rDo-rje ro-lang-ma) in Tibetan. Vajra language is completely symbolic. Therefore I feel guilty to teach them. At this the Guru disappeared., Ra Lotsawa had a difficult time finding him again. Please read, please read and its in Chinese also, if you need, we have it here, The Wheel of Sharp Weapons. Then within that, Yamantakas tantra was not very popular although existent, prior to the King of Dharma, the Second Buddha, Gyalwa Nyipa, Tsongkhapa. 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. Ive received the empowerment of the Single-Deity Vajrabhairava (rDo-rje jigs-byed dpa-bo gcig-pa) many, many times, from: And Ive been practicing it every day for more than forty years. He also appears as one of the eight non-Buddhist deities found, one each, in eight of the skullcups held by Hevajra. Whatever understanding, whatever positive force has come from this, may it act as a cause for all beings to reach enlightenment as quickly as possible through a sincere practice such as this Yamantaka system. He is adorned with bracelets, necklaces and a girdle all formed of interlaced bone ornaments, a necklace of snakes and a long necklace of fifty moist human heads. 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. 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. 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? So therefore if we have created something very negative, very powerfully negative, imagine what Yamantaka can help us in. In the Gelug tradition this became very, very strongly practiced. 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. Were talking about this region. And one collects great amount of merit while one is perpetuating Yamantaka. One has to be very, very well prepared and have a very realistic idea of how difficult its going to be. yamantaka mantra benefits. This is the real enemy its all these disturbing emotions and negative attitudes in our own minds. So, the only higher tantric system that focuses on both mother and father combined simultaneously is the Yamantaka set of tantras. Then the Guru appeared and said, When the sun rises in the east and there are no clouds, then the sun shines. OM YAMANTAKA ARGHAM, PADYAM, GHENDE, PUSHPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, NAIWITYE, SHABTA PRATICCHA HUNG SOHA. I dont know. Anger that arises from self-grasping, can be reduced and can be destroyed, can be purified. "In the practice of Highest Yoga Tantra, try to focus on everything causing great bliss within you. This nine-headed form appears either in a forty-nine-deity mandala, a thirteen-deity mandala, or a single-deity mandala. As we see with how we set our motivation in the Buddhist practice, we are moved by compassion. So if we didnt do that, imagine how powerful Yamantaka is, even still. He was the first mortal to die, and thus, because of that, he became the Lord of Death. Yamantaka Empowerment As Part of Teachings in Bodhgaya. All the confusion and disturbing emotions and compulsiveness of our samsaric, karmic type of life is occurring on grosser levels, not this subtlest level that just provides the continuity. The three right faces are yellow, blue and red and the three left are black, white and smoky. 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. This sadhana practice is intended only for those people who have received this. In that he says, Yamantaka, throw your wheel of sharp weapons. All this is in the condensed root tantra. Highest Yoga Tantra understanding Emptiness, overcoming death Alexander Berzin explains the Highest Yoga Tantra, such as Yamantaka practice, and how it helps us understand Emptiness (Voidness) and, with practice, ultimately overcome death, for the benefit of all beings: Regardless which manifestation of Vajrabhairava you are looking at, he is always depicted as fear-inducing, scary, and intimidating. You have a protection wheel, its called. (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.) In the Buddhist variant, Yamantaka overcomes Yama like Shiva overcame Yama using the name Kala, Kalantaka. It should be the same for other mantras, but I dont want to say that, as the benefits of OM MANI PADME HUM are what is explained. 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. Vajrabhairava is powerful enough to overcome and subdue even the most powerful negative emotions. Thats why Yamantaka would also have a buffalo head.. This is very, very dangerous, very delicate. Its a very different type of Buddha. 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. So thats a little bit different. Share dan bookmark melalui: Vajrasattva's mantra is a powerful purification prayer that invokes the mindstreams of all the buddhas. It should be given only to as few disciples as possible. Yamantaka Self-Initiation PDF -This practice is restricted to only those with the appropriate tantric empowerment. Heinous. Why Ogyen? Now, soon after that, Yama becomes incorporated into the Shiva complex of Hindu deities. To understand the emergence of Yamantaka there and this practice there, otherwise it doesnt make any sense that it was kept there, we need to look at the history of Yama. 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). The full form of Vajrabhairava has nine heads, the central one being that of a buffalo, and the top-most being that of yellow Manjushri with a slightly wrathful expression. Dont think that any of these systems are simple. 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. Psychologically its very important, actually, because in order to feel safe even in a group-therapy session or in any type of psychological session you need to have a protected space in which you feel that no harm can come from the outside and you can relax. Then warnings against disasters that will happen if you dont do each of the steps properly. In order to engage in its practice, . So he is that powerful. 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