Why? Lets focus on the nine-headed Vajrabhairava. 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? It says: Vajravega is the forceful form of Kalachakra. So, hence, many things we do come from second nature that are embedded within our mindstream for many lifetimes. This is a little bit awkward, of course, when there are not so many people who are actually involved in the practice, so one is a little bit puzzled as to what to actually say. In the Gelug tradition it is the container, as I said, in which all the other practices can be done. Okay? Its the fact that a Buddha can appear in any form whatsoever in order to be able to benefit others. And so Yama rides on a male water buffalo. 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. Thats the Concert of Names of Manjushri, a Kalachakra text (probably also seventh century). 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. At least I find for myself its helpful. 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. So if we didnt do that, imagine how powerful Yamantaka is, even still. There was one big Sakya lama who was out there, and he complained to the Manchu ruler, saying Come on. I think its very important to be realistic and understand that Buddhism did not develop in a vacuum. Brief Vajrasattva Visualisation and Mantra Recitation. And one collects great amount of merit while one is perpetuating Yamantaka. Then you fall to one extreme of either Only this is true or The other one is true. There are various depictions of what a Buddha is: Thats the way that a Buddha is described in Mahayana. [See: Explaining Vajra Expressions: 6 Alternatives & 4 Modes.] 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. They are tamed and then given a pledge by Guru Rinpoche or by many other figures to protect practitioners. 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. So Lama Tsongkhapa himself practiced and gained results, and hence he recommended his students to do it. In Kalachakra as well, Yamantaka appears as the protector of one of the gateways of the body mandala, as well as one of the sixty protectors in the protection wheel. Another day he saw several parrots involved in eating rice while another larger bird was killing them. So he practiced another tantra teaching, called the Net of Illusion, the Mayajala Tantra (rGyu-phrul drva-ba). So if you think Well, did the historical Buddha do that? then you get very confused. Hence, thats called habituation. The traditional account of how Buddha gave these teachings was that he arose in the form of Yamantaka just as when Buddha gave the teachings of other tantras, like Guhyasamaja and Chakrasamvara, he arose in that form and gave the teachings and he gave these teachings in 100,000 chapters. He is also one of the main yidams in the Sakya school where he comes in a variety of appearances (with different mandalas). I will name a few for you now. They have a short version. Eventually Atisha brought the tantras of Vajrabhairava to Tibet, and his disciple Dromtonpa (Brom-ston rGyal-bai byung-gnas) founded Radreng Monastery, (Rva-sgreng rGyal-ba'i dben-gnas). All Buddhist textual sources refer to Lalitavajra as the revealer of the Vajrabhairava and Yamari tantras to an originally Indian tantric audience. So theyre brought into the Buddhist fold and so Yama was as well. After the initiation, the Guru snapped his fingers and the mandala disappeared. So that means that he incorporates the Guhyasamaja type of practices. Im always curious why it has a buffalo head. 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. (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. Then another time a lady told him, The Guru will manifest himself as a bird. ), 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. Dont think that any of these systems are simple. I think thats a clearer way of saying it. Once you have that yidam, it is the yidam of Tsongkhapa, it is the vehicle in which Tsongkhapa became Enlightened. Photo by Lobsang Tsering. It is one of the mother tantra deity systems within which the six yogas of Naropa are practiced. Then the second chapter, rituals using various devices for extremely forceful actions against harmful beings. You have to remember when we talk about tantra and the accounts of how Buddha taught tantra not to think in terms of the historical Shakyamuni Buddha. 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 the Second Buddha is called Gyalwa Nyipa. Its very, very delicate. With Yamantakas tantra alone one can become fully Enlightened. That is one version that fits in with the Pali canon account of what a Buddha is. Teacher: Jhampa Shaneman DATE: Feb 17 to 26, 2023 Then the Guru disappeared and Ra Lotsawa was left alone. Are they all Shakyamuni? Ikuti link ini Download Sutra , Download Mantra . Last but not least, read up on your Bodhisattva Vows, read up on your Tantric Vows. Yamantakas tantra, (Tibetan words], means it has seven special attributes, seven special attributes. Yamantaka also appears in other tantras before Lalitavajras time. This is what we hear from the Buddhist version of the history. The Manchus were getting their power together, and eventually theyre going to conquer China and rule China as the Qing dynasty. Buddhism is an Indian religion, an Indian system, and it shares many, many, many things in common with what later becomes Hinduism and Jainism. That has to be explained by a teacher. ARGHAM, PADYAM, PUSHPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, GHENDE, NAIWITYE, SHABTA PRATICCHA HUNG SOHA. Now, there are several ways in which we could work to attain the body, speech, and mind of a Buddha. So already theres that association from Indian pre-Hindu culture in connection with Yama., Sometimes Yama is called Dharma. He did all the practices and obviously he was very, very advanced and in three months he gained the actual attainments. By virtue he is purely 100% Manjushri and no other. Theyre not. These are part of the commitments. 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. Her physique is robust, matching that of Yamantaka. 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. The complete book is now available to initiates as a pdf file. 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. In Buddhism there are many protector deities that have been incorporated, and many of them come from an earlier Indian non-Buddhist context (some even come from an Iranian context). The passage of time brings death, doesnt it? 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 . Well, youd have to say, Yes, theyre all the same person. The first pair of hands hold a curved knife and skull cup to the heart. 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. So whats the Buddhist version of the legend? (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. So therefore, Buddha gave two sets of teachings according to these four types of principals. And one collects great amount of merit while one is perpetuating 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. New rebirth samsaric rebirth with another cluster or configuration of these habits being activated and generating the next samsaric life filled with the same types of compulsive behavior and confusion. But because Yama appears in this general Indian context as one of the directional protectors, then in the Yamantaka practice, in Guhyasamaja practice in so many different practices then in the Buddhist context, you call in the fifteen directional protectors, and Yama is one of them. So you imitate death and imitate the process of death but without dying, obviously. The statue is shown with three faces, each with a third eye. 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. 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. Why? He went to return to Tibet and a lady pulled him back when he was about to go. He took this as a teaching about impermanence and how we are oblivious to the Lord of Death. 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). Learn about all the features of our website View all advices and related links for this topic. Its very late, so lets end here with a dedication. This is how that came about. By ordering . And it works but not by some power of some magic or miracle. One is a realistic attitude you realistically accept that its going to be difficult and take a long time. So its a method.) So we really need some very, very strong force not to just give in and let ourselves be ruled by this confusion. Transcription of a lecture, Moscow, Russia, June 2013. Its not an easy trip., I always find it quite helpful to think of these things as actually happening, not just some legend. 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? And Manjushri transformed himself into Yamantaka, looking very similar to Yama but ten times more powerful and horrible, and Manjushri as Yamantaka then defeated Yama and made him into a protector for Buddhism., So what do we learn from this story? According to tradition, however, Buddha taught Guhyasamaja to King Indrabhuti of Ogyen, who ruled during the second half of eighth century. That will be more than enough for you. And it says that this is supposed to be kept secret, private, so why? Secondly, Yamantaka is the most ferocious out of all the deities existent within the Tibetan pantheon of Buddhas. Yamantaka appears there. He has eight heads.The principal head is that of a bull or a buffalo. In the Shiva tantra context (plus you get tantra in the Shaivite system) and in the Buddhist one, you get a very parallel development and parallel names. Je Pabongka Rinpoche. So even the most heinous crimes, if we do Yamantakas tantra very well, we can purify in one life. Shes called Vajravetali, or Dorje Rolangma (rDo-rje ro-lang-ma) in Tibetan. Yama is a common figure that we find in Indo-Iranian culture, both on the Indian side and the Iranian side. Because if you think that secret and hidden means this system of these vajra expressions, you become totally confused when you read the Yamantaka root tantra or the Chakrasamvara one and you see Well, its all explained there very explicitly. In general Buddhas teaching is as wide and deep as the ocean and tantra is like a wish-fulfilling gem in the ocean. The second of the five special features is that in two of his hands he holds intestines and a triangular fire stove. It comes already in this early time. In the Gelug tradition this became very, very strongly practiced. So for this, Yamantaka is the best strong on the outside, Manjushri (wisdom, calm, clear) on the inside. One collects a great amount of merit. The name Bhairava indicating one of Shivas main forms and the various attributes/implements like the trident, tiger-skin, ashes, drum (Skt: damaru), etc. Then within that, Yamantakas tantra was not very popular although existent, prior to the King of Dharma, the Second Buddha, Gyalwa Nyipa, Tsongkhapa. And they exchanged ideas. In many of the tantra systems, you find very similar variants in both the Hindu side (meaning the Shiva side) and the Buddhist side. They passed down the line of Vikramashila masters and there were many commentaries written to them in India. Yamantaka, then, represents the goal of the Mahayana practitioner's journey to enlightenment, or the journey itself: in awakening, one adopts the practice of Yamntaka - the practice of terminating death . Vajrabhairava is sometimes called just Yamantaka. Should you wish to practice a brief visualisation and mantra recitation for Vajrasattva, recite the following: There are either eight or ten directional protectors, and Yama is one of them. Share dan bookmark melalui: 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. 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. 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. Then do a very powerful dedication, to Yamantaka at the end and that will be very good. All the various Indian deities, these various figures, are always riding on top of something. The binding factors that keeps us in Samsara is, ignorance. Next to where the Eastern Mongols lived were the Manchus. So since the Manchus wanted to rule over the Mongols as well, they adopted Yamantaka also. by . This is a Buddha according to Mahayana, who then manifests in so many different forms and in Buddha-fields, and he teaches to hundreds of thousands of devas and asuras and gandharvas all these figures from general Indian mythology or whatever you want to call it all these various beings in these incredible settings, and so on. Please continue to make your life . According to some scholars thats already by the fourth century. Whats so special about this area that Guru Rinpoche comes from there, the tantras all come from there, and so on? Now, personally I find this very interesting. 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). Along with practising Yamantakas tantra, one can perfect memory, clairvoyance, penetrative insight, one can have great debate, one can have great speech, one could have perfect understanding of the Dharma. There was a holy man who was told that if he meditated for the next fifty years, he would achieve enlightenment. 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 ). Tring, U.K., The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1996. Second Buddha means the one thats equal to Sakyamuni after Sakyamuni. It was existent but not popular till Lama Tsongkhapa himself found various types of Yamantaka tantras, example, from the Kagyu and the Sakya. 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. 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 so he wondered, Who is this Vajrabhairava? And so this (motivation) is an enormous, tremendous compassion for everybody. 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). For ease of discussion, Ill just call it Ogyen since thats what its called in Tibetan. Already in the fourth century you find Yamantaka.. 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. Vajrabhairava is the one with the buffalo head and the Manjushri head above it, and he appears in three basic forms. It includes numberless hell beings, preta beings, hungry ghosts, animals, and insects in numberless universes. Along with practising Yamantaka's tantra, one can perfect memory, clairvoyance, penetrative insight, one can have great debate, one can have great speech, one could have perfect understanding of the Dharma. That ignorance is, is manifested as grasping of the self that does not exist. rituals for transforming closely bonding substances into a potion for gaining various powers. So, mother tantra and father tantra, both can bring you to Enlightenment, but they focus on different types of afflictions to be converted. From Tibet, late 19th century to early 20th century CE. People can attain enlightenment with these. What are these three texts? Within, within the four, the highest is the Maha Anuttara tantra. And whats the point here? At the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama, he went back to his own monastery, Tashilhunpo (bKras-shis lhun-po), and many Mongols came to Tashilhunpo to study with him., So already, through the influence of the Fourth Panchen Lama, Yamantaka practice had reached the Mongols. 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. After His Holiness had taken his seat on the throne, Theravada monks once again chanted the Mangala Sutta in Pali. In all these instances, Yamantaka has three heads, six arms and two legs, and is in the Buddha-family of Vairochana. 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 . Before the fire. Yamantaka Initiation July 17-18; Search. So if you have received the empowerment, its a very, very important, very helpful, and very strong practice to involve yourself with, very effective. So the people of Tibet were afraid for their lives, and they prayed to Manjushri to listen to them. So already you get that name Dharmaraja in the non-Buddhist context. 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. Outer and Secret forms have buffalo heads, the Secret Yamaraja form does not. So I hope that when you took the initiation, you werent given a cow as well to bribe you into doing the practice!. Im very, very happy, and Im very pleased to hear that. Its done in so many of the tantra practices. It is not to be given lightly. Already there was an association between the Manchus and the Dalai Lamas. The right legs are bent pressing down on a man, animals and various gods. So you think Well, thats what it means for it to be a hidden tantra. Its not. Ven. And he becomes a guardian of the hells. So to achieve emptiness, Yamantaka is the most profound and the most quickest. Plus in the palace itself of Guhyasamaja, you have four gateways, and Yamantaka is there in one of the gateways as a protector also. Thats in the seventh century. 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.. Then you get three different ways of looking at the same thing. Alright? If you think in terms of Well, it was Buddha Shakyamuni who taught tantra in other words, the historical Buddha as described in the Pali canon, the Theravadin canon then youre going to see, well, thats completely contradictory with the Buddhologist study of the history of Buddhism, completely contradictory. Its very interesting whats actually here in the root tantras. What you find here in all these chapters of these three texts are very, very strong rituals that are dealing with overcoming harmful beings, and you read them and they really sound absolutely violent and horrible., The first one, the Condensed Chapters of the Root Tantra,has seven chapters condensed from that 100,000 chapter version (either 100,000 chapters or verses its unclear because the text is lost)., One of the people later in the lineage is Atisha, one of the people who brought it originally to Tibet. 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. It provides the most detail about the methods for generating the four levels of blissful awareness of voidness within the central energy-channel, enabling access to the subtlest level of mind, clear light. Origins The Sutra path is longer not because the Sutra is slow, the Sutra path is longer is because the Sutric method is less challenging, less pushy and less demanding. 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. If you like, this, this also can be burned. 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. As I mentioned, most people will refer to it as Yamantaka. So what does this tell us? And all these different Indian traditions have their own variant of them, their own version. Then warnings against disasters that will happen if you dont do each of the steps properly. What does it mean in the text that its to be hidden or secret?, You read and study Guhyasamaja which is actually the main thing that is studied in the tantric colleges in the Gelug tradition and the Guhyasamaja Root Tantra is written in so-called vajra language (rdo-rjei tshig). It is possible, though, that in western Tibet (Ngari) where Atisha taught, Vajrabhairava teachings were already present directly via Ugyen. 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. You should offer two sets, of the offering every single day and recite the Yamantaka mantra, the first one, the second one, 21 times or more but you should focus on the third mantra. 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