First they beheaded the water buffalo in front of the hermit, and the hermit pleaded with them Please wait a few minutes more till I finish my fifty years of meditation but they beheaded him as well, before he could finish. And it works but not by some power of some magic or miracle. 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. 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. 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. Yamantaka is the wrathful emanation of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. (1878 - 1941 C.E.) The (mostly secret and arcane) practices involve different activities for various purposes. So I hear that you have Yamantakas teachings. Yamantaka Meditation. Shes called Vajravetali, or Dorje Rolangma (rDo-rje ro-lang-ma) in Tibetan. He said, If you keep the secrecy and do the practice, there is no doubt that you will attain enlightenment in this lifetime. 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. This is how that came about. 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. 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. He did all the practices and obviously he was very, very advanced and in three months he gained the actual attainments. This is what we hear from the Buddhist version of the history. 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. Alright? [See: What Is Guhyasamaja Practice? 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. 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. That ignorance is, is manifested as grasping of the self that does not exist. So if you think Well, did the historical Buddha do that? then you get very confused. 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. This is the real enemy its all these disturbing emotions and negative attitudes in our own minds. The teaching of Yamantaka is even more special. Later, Yamantaka becomes associated with Manjushri, who embodies wisdom or the understanding of reality. 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. The complete book is now available to initiates as a pdf file. He took this as a teaching about impermanence and how we are oblivious to the Lord of Death. 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. 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. There was one big Sakya lama who was out there, and he complained to the Manchu ruler, saying Come on. We have:, I have here what each of the chapters of this talk about. In these texts you find a very clear description of what Yamantaka looks like how many arms, how many legs, what the arms are holding, what are underneath his feet. A student asked Rinpoche about putting Yamantaka mantras inside a prayer wheel. She has calm, partially furious, and fully furious looks. Yamantaka's command carries tremendous power to perform purification, enhancement, harmonization and subjugation. (Pardon the dualistic way of saying that that we are experiencing it, as if theres a separate me. 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). This is very, very dangerous, very delicate. 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). It has been identified archaeologically as Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan, present-day Pakistan. Ikuti link ini Download Sutra , Download Mantra . So, the only higher tantric system that focuses on both mother and father combined simultaneously is the Yamantaka set of tantras. She asked, Have you received the full teaching? He told her what he had received. Tring, U.K., The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1996. 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. According to tradition, however, Buddha taught Guhyasamaja to King Indrabhuti of Ogyen, who ruled during the second half of eighth century. So that means that he incorporates the Guhyasamaja type of practices. Discourses on the main commentary of the text of the Single Deity from Serkong Rinpoche and Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. And it says that this is supposed to be kept secret, private, so why? So everybody really thought this was very special and worshipped there. those that use desire as a path (Guhyasamaja is the example). 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: Okay, how do we understand that? 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. . Mother tantra emphasizes the practices for getting the clear-light mind (od-gsal) and understanding of voidness and the mind of a Buddha. So its not for the weak-hearted ones that Ooh, Ill try doing a little bit and Do I like this? You dont need to get many, many other initiations. So for this, Yamantaka is the best strong on the outside, Manjushri (wisdom, calm, clear) on the inside. Thats the Concert of Names of Manjushri, a Kalachakra text (probably also seventh century). 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. Outer and Secret forms have buffalo heads, the Secret Yamaraja form does not. 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. Yamantaka imitates Yama by both of them having the buffalo head. 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. 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. 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. Numerous discourses on the fire puja, the self-initiation, the mandala measurements, and many of the auxiliary practices of Yamantaka from Serkong Rinpoche. I think that basically what is possible is to just give a little bit of information about it. So now you look: Why Oddiyana? 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? You can envision this person with a Pali canon type of vision. Well, youd have to say, Yes, theyre all the same person. Ive already spoken in previous visits about Chakrasamvara and Guhyasamaja, so now we have Vajrabhairava left. And underlying it is what? It was like the greatest occasion of his life., Then the Guru gave the full series of initiations. rimersburg, pa obituaries. Yamantaka practice became especially popular and widespread not only among the Tibetans, but also in the Mongol and Manchu regions in which Tibetan Buddhism spread. instructions for accomplishing various extremely forceful actions against harmful beings through fire pujas, meditation practices for extremely forceful actions against harmful beings and warnings about keeping secrecy about these practices.. Whats the difference between the two? 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. He went there and encountered the Wisdom-dakini (in the form of Vajravetali) and other dakinis who eventually revealed the various Yamantaka tantras to him. This sadhana practice is intended only for those people who have received this Highest Yoga Tantra Initiation from a qualified Lama. 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. 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. (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.) 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. 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. 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). 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. It can also subdue the four maras, Devaputra mara, Skanda mara, Klesa mara, and Mrtyu mara. 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. With Yamantaka's tantra alone one can become fully Enlightened. He just stood by doing nothing, fully amazed. Next to where the Eastern Mongols lived were the Manchus. Hence, if you do Yamantakas practice and you combine it with the four preliminary practices such as offerings, mandala, prostrations, Vajrasattva, etc. That is not the full teaching. So he went back to the Guru and requested the actual teaching. So Ogyen was pretty much in the geographic center of a large empire called the Kushan Empire. That will be more than enough for you. So it combines all the practices always with Manjushri in your heart. Please read, please read and its in Chinese also, if you need, we have it here, The Wheel of Sharp Weapons. 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. Already there was an association between the Manchus and the Dalai Lamas. Transcript for Advice to a Yamantaka Initiate. More precisely, the Manchus identified Beijing as the Vajrabhairava manadala with the Forbidden City, the Imperial City and the Outer City forming three concentric mandala circles, with the Emperor as Vajrabhairava in the center. All Buddhist textual sources refer to Lalitavajra as the revealer of the Vajrabhairava and Yamari tantras to an originally Indian tantric audience. Why Ogyen? The deity yamantaka, as the name suggested, is terrifying to behold. ), 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. Were talking about the early seventeenth century. Please continue to make your life most meaningful ,with the thought of bodhicitta in every action that you do. 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? Okay. 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. You can work with this person from an anuttarayoga tantra vision. We have in Guhyasamaja, as I mentioned in my previous lecture about that, a whole different system of secrecy than we have here in Vajrabhairava. Yamantaka's command carries tremendous power to perform purification, enhancement, harmonization and subjugation. 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. Share dan bookmark melalui: So every single day, the bare minimum for the first, second and fourth mantra, is 21 times. And so this (motivation) is an enormous, tremendous compassion for everybody. The understanding is the same in all practices, of course, but youre using the forceful energy of Vajrabhairava to get to it, so its strong (with, of course, bodhichitta; thats to be understood). So that means the third mantra, if you do 21 times a day, youll do that three times extra on the tsog day to cover your tsog commitments for now, okay? Then warnings against disasters that will happen if you dont do each of the steps properly. Yamantaka Initiation July 17-18; Search. Yamantaka Self-Initiation PDF -This practice is restricted to only those with the appropriate tantric empowerment. 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. So thats a little bit different. 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. That is one version that fits in with the Pali canon account of what a Buddha is. Its done in so many of the tantra practices. 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 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. So this is basically the tantra path of the highest class of tantra. Lalitavajra was studying this Concert of Names of Manjushri, and in that text he came across some lines in the section Praising Mirror-like Deep Awareness. I wont read the full lines, because we dont have so much time, but just the parts of the lines. Yamas also called Kala in these texts. Theyre not different people. But how do you understand this person? So Yamantakas practice is very, very powerful, extremely, extremely powerful for removing the self-grasping I that doesnt exist. When the Manchus conquered China, they identified themselves with Yamantaka and Vajrabhairava and Manjushri. The subtlest energy of it to transform and appear in the form of a Buddha. Because a Buddha in Mahayana is one that teaches the entire universe. 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. [See: Explaining Vajra Expressions: 6 Alternatives & 4 Modes.] Highest Yoga Tantra Initiation from a qualified Lama. Thats not the Buddha that theyre talking about. 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. So another name for Yama is Kalarupa, and you find this in the protector practices. 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. The type of Buddha that is in the Mahayana sutras is a completely different type of Buddha. Composed by. So, mother tantra and father tantra, both can bring you to Enlightenment, but they focus on different types of afflictions to be converted. 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. He went to return to Tibet and a lady pulled him back when he was about to go. And so he wondered, Who is this Vajrabhairava? So whats the Buddhist version of the legend? And the palace every little feature of it represents some other aspect of the path and realization. Its the fact that a Buddha can appear in any form whatsoever in order to be able to benefit others. So its not surprising that you find all these so-called Hindu deities in the Buddhist practices. Rilbu means qualified inner nectar pill put inside. So he is that powerful. 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. Thats called the Avesta, just as the proto-Hindus have the Vedas. 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. 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. Other emanations of Yamantaka appear as residents in various mandalas (13-, 17-, 21-, and 49-Deity). Inner and Outer Yamaraja are blue/black, and the Secret Yamaraja is red. Not that I want to scare anybody, but be realistic. You can look at it two ways, cant you? He was the first mortal to die, and thus, because of that, he became the Lord of Death. 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. I wish you the best. Whats so special about this area that Guru Rinpoche comes from there, the tantras all come from there, and so on? You want so much, because of your motivation, to have a clear mind, that you focus. If you memorize this, well give you a yak, well give you a camel, stuff like this. Thats what a Buddha does. So I have received your wonderful offering, and I thank you. Vajrabhairava is one of the principal three meditational deities of the Gelug school (Tib: gsang bde jigs gsum; the others are Chakrasamvara and Guhyasamaja). And in fact he meets a female practitioner, a so-called deep-awareness dakini (ye-shes mkha-gro). 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. One really has to have already reached the point at which you are no longer affected by the disturbing emotions, but where you can still call upon the energy of them in order to use them in a beneficial way in your internal-yoga practice. Heinous. Media in category "Yamantaka". and its nothing from its own side you cant find it as anything from its own side and yet all three are valid. So its a method.) Theres no separate me experiencing it.) That was kept in the Dharmaganja Stupa it was kept inside which was venerated by all the dakinis. Buddhism is an Indian religion, an Indian system, and it shares many, many, many things in common with what later becomes Hinduism and Jainism. Many months passed. Photo by Lobsang Tsering. If you memorize this verse, well give you cattle. Why? All of that is completely clear in these texts. 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 statue is shown with three faces, each with a third eye. Okay? Anyway, enough of history and stories. Where is Ogyen? 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). 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. The next day he requested a dog who transformed into fire, water, wind and earth--the four elements--to show that he has power over the elements. Then on top of that, Guru Devotion, very strongly, and Wheel of Sharp Weapons, and Lamrim, and take complete refuge in Yamantaka. He went back to Mongolia, to the very most eastern tribes of the Mongols and he was like a missionary. Now, normally we get down to that subtlest level when we die. Its much easier to say Yamantaka in Mongolian than to say Vajrabhairava, and so because of that, most of the time its called Yamantaka and not Vajrabhairava. See also: What Is Chakrasamvara Practice?]. Vajrapani wears a loin-cloth around his hips. In this tantra theres Manjushri. Tibetans and Indian practitioners have always focused on Manjushri in order to gain super intelligence, super clarity of mind. 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. Second Buddha means the one thats equal to Sakyamuni after Sakyamuni. In the Gelug school, Yama- or Dharmaraja is part of the Vajrabhairava practice. Dont just look at these things as little fairy tales to tell children. May 29, 2022 in new york v united states quizlet. Hence, thats called habituation. everything is 100% complete. Thats one of the early tantras that was translated into Tibetan and which was incorporated in the Nyingma textual tradition. Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug school, emphasized and promoted the practice of Vajrabhairava. Note that Vajravegas root mantra contains the praise in Sanskrit: To the one who acts on behalf of Vajrabhairava. The name Vajrabhairava also appears in Vajravegas 72-line garland mantra., Manjughosha is another name for Manjushri., Lalitavajra reads these lines and here you have all these names of Yamantaka and Vajrabhairava and Manjughosha. Sponsoring initiations and teachings is a practice of the highest form of generosity - giving the Dharma. We want to help others as much as possible. It can also subdue the four maras, Devaputra mara, Skanda mara, Klesa mara, and Mrtyu mara. So since the Manchus wanted to rule over the Mongols as well, they adopted Yamantaka also. ARGHAM, PADYAM, PUSHPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, GHENDE, NAIWITYE, SHABTA PRATICCHA HUNG SOHA. When you talk about different cultures being present in one area, they dont exist in isolation, do they, in isolation from each other?. The second of the five special features is that in two of his hands he holds intestines and a triangular fire stove. The principal practice texts come from Tsongkhapa (13-Deity) and Pabongka (Solitary Hero). For people who have taken the Yamantaka initiation and registered with us, we have an extensive collection of practice materials. The pads of the feet and palms of the hands are red, and the nails are like iron hooks. As we see with how we set our motivation in the Buddhist practice, we are moved by compassion. 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). 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. This represents two types of practices in Guhyasamaja: illusory body and clear light. Thats why he is also called Yamantaka, the Slayer of Death. Black Yamari and Red Yamari dont have a buffalo head. Its very late, so lets end here with a dedication. Then within that, Yamantakas tantra was not very popular although existent, prior to the King of Dharma, the Second Buddha, Gyalwa Nyipa, Tsongkhapa. 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. Its 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. 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. 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