Machig Labdron - The Yogini

This is a field of merit from the Chod (cutting through) lineage. It is features the Yogini namely Machig Labdron in the center of this Tangka printing. She is surrounded by other lineage masters. and as well surrounded by the other semi-wrathful divine beings. 

In front of Machig Labdron are the Dharma protectors from this lineage  and the four great kings appear below them and the Buddhas of the three times are indicated above of Machig Labdron, with great Mother of Prajnaparamita above them. Gifts bearing gods and goddesses are shown at the very top of this Tangka printing.

Machig Labdron is often depicted with the attributes of a Dakini or a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the Buddhas. She is a representation of enlightened female energy and she holds a drum in her right hand and a bell in her left. Her right leg is often lifted and the standing left leg is bent in motion. 

Machig Labdron is white in color with three eyes and wears the six bone Ornaments and she is which is traditional for a practicing Yogini. The different between Yogini and Dakini.  The Yogini wears the six bones Ornaments and the Dakini wears five bones Ornaments and both are the wisdom beings.

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and profit. 

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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