Yamantaka Initiation July 17-18; Search. 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. The statue is shown with three faces, each with a third eye. Then the lady said that the Guru would manifest as a dog. Its an interesting one. First Yamantaka already appears as a protector early in the development of Buddhist tantra. He stands in (or rather is caught in) the warrior pose that will be familiar to those who practice Hatha Yoga. One Eastern Mongol a Torgud Mongol came to study with the Fourth Panchen Lama, called Neiji Toin. The attributes of the main deity are the same in both forms. There is a version that you find in the Pali canon, where Shakyamuni was a prince, and he had his life, and there are all these accounts of what he did during his actual historical life. So now we have to qualify what I just said. Fire Ritual(Part 4) Fire Ritual(Part 3) Fire Ritual(Part 2) Fire Ritual(Part 1) Yamantaka Initiation July 17-18; Recent Comments. 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. Im very, very happy, and Im very pleased to hear that. Theres nothing especially Buddhist about it. 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. They passed down the line of Vikramashila masters and there were many commentaries written to them in India. those that use anger or transform it into the path (like Vajrabhairava). Thank you for anything you can offer to help. The protectors are like a dog, a very vicious, powerful dog. Remember Manjushri is the embodiment of the discriminating awareness, the clear mind, the intelligence, the so-called wisdom of the Buddhas. Lets focus on the nine-headed Vajrabhairava. Out of these words you can derive all the different levels of practice, and it presents a system. 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. This is very similar to the water/pus/nectar discussion, that: All three of these visions of what a Buddha is are all valid, but theyre valid within their own context, and that you have to understand within their own context. That is symbolized by Yamantakas set of hands, on the left side set of hands, you will see one row, one row, one hand is holding one man impaled on a stick. 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. There are many, many powers to doing Yamantakas tantra. 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? Yamantaka also appears in other tantras before Lalitavajras time. 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. 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. 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. To this very day it is considered one of the most important yidam practices, both for monastic and lay practitioners alike. (1) The first is that in this age of degeneration, practitioners will not be harmed by interferences. So it has to be explained by a teacher, and thats the aspect of secrecy in this tantra system. All the former are yidams (meditational deities) whereas Yamaraja (sometimes also called Dharamaraja) is a Dharma protector. 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. It can also subdue the four maras, Devaputra mara, Skanda mara, Klesa mara, and Mrtyu mara. That is not the full teaching. So he went back to the Guru and requested the actual teaching. 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. Once you have that yidam, it is the yidam of Tsongkhapa, it is the vehicle in which Tsongkhapa became Enlightened. Maybe it has that connotation. Thats a Buddha as understood in tantra. And all these different Indian traditions have their own variant of them, their own version. Vajrapani wears a loin-cloth around his hips. June 2014. So, Yamantaka's practice is very powerful for protecting oneself against negative, destructive energy. These are called the Three Rounds of Tantras (rGyud-skor gsum). It gives it a context. If you memorize this verse, well give you cattle. (5) And the fifth point is that to attain enlightenment we need to rely on the deep awareness of Manjushri. Tring, U.K., The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1996. "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). So it comes from this general Indian background. And so in this highest class of tantra practice what we want to do is imitate death in our meditation by using very subtle methods to get down to that subtlest level as well. And so Yama rides on a male water buffalo. There are many variants of everything. And this historical stuff is unimportant. By dawn of the next day, the dakas and dakinis were singing etc. He took these as manifestations of the teachings of the Guru. Proofread by Sarah Yap Thats really quite odd, isnt it? A lot is explained. So you have to understand whats going on here., The main thing is the division between whether you explain the fourth initiation explicitly or not. So it combines all the practices always with Manjushri in your heart. Thats the reason. 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). And it works but not by some power of some magic or miracle. Theres no separate me experiencing it.) I dont feel like going and helping somebody. You have to cut through that. How did something like this develop in Ogyen, in Oddiyana?, First of all, where is Oddiyana? 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. 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. You understand on a deeper level a Buddhist analysis of different points of view. This sadhana practice is intended only for those people who have received this. He has eight heads.The principal head is that of a bull or a buffalo. Only give it to a few disciples. Later Ra Lotsawa regretted that he had given it to too many disciples so he couldnt attain enlightenment in his lifetime. The benefit of that is, that if we do Yamantakas practice, we can overcome our inner, real, self-grasping anger. ), 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. 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. And weve used great force to get down there. Yamntaka is seen as awrathful manifestation of Majur, the bodhisattvaof wisdom, and in other contexts functions as adharmapala, or 'Dharma-protector'. So already in this iconography or mythology whatever you want to call it already you have Yama associated with a water buffalo. So if you have received the empowerment, its a very, very important, very helpful, and very strong practice to involve yourself with, very effective. One collects a great amount of merit. Yamantaka: Yama is death, the Lord of Death, and antaka, the one who puts an end to, so the one who puts an end to the Lord of Death. 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 hes called Dharma, the Lord of Dharma, and thus he becomes called Dharmaraja (Chos-rgyal). To meditate on Vajrasattva is the same as to meditate upon all the buddhas. It is one of the mother tantra deity systems within which the six yogas of Naropa are practiced. Ive already spoken in previous visits about Chakrasamvara and Guhyasamaja, so now we have Vajrabhairava left. So these ideas about Yama are percolating in this cultural area, with influence from these three different ways of thinking the Iranian, the Indian non-Buddhist, and the Buddhist. And it was very, very difficult theres a whole long story and account of how much difficulty he had to get these teachings and to translate them with his Indian master Bharo Chag-drum (Bha-ro Phyag-drum), with whom he studied in Nepal but anyway he translated them and brought them to Tibet., Although a Yamantaka lineage was present at Radreng Monastery, teachings on it were not easy to find. The mantra has 6 syllables and so is also popularly known as the Great 6 Syllable Mantra. 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. 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. I think its very important to be realistic and understand that Buddhism did not develop in a vacuum. 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. Secondly, Yamantaka is the most ferocious out of all the deities existent within the Tibetan pantheon of Buddhas. And underlying it is what? 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 . There are either eight or ten directional protectors, and Yama is one of them. 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