God of Time, Maya, Creation, Destruction and Power - Mahakala

Mahakala is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. He is also being referred to as the God of Time, Maya, Creation, Destruction, and Power. 

In Buddhism, Mahakala is regarded as a Dharmapala ("Protector of the Dharma") and a wrathful manifestation of a Buddha, while in Hinduism, Mahakala is a fierce manifestation of the Hindu god Shiva and the consort of the goddess Mahakali he most prominently appears in the Kalikula sect of Shaktism. 

Mahakala appears as a protector deity in the various traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism, like Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism. He is known as  the Great Black One(大黑天)

Numerous traditions of Mahayana Buddhism rely on Mahakala as a guardian deity (Dharmapala, "Dharma protector"). 

Mahakala is one of the most popular protector deities in Tibetan Buddhism, and he is also sometimes used as a meditational deity (yidam) in tantric Buddhist yogas. 

He is depicted in a number of variations, each with distinctly different qualities and aspects. He is generally depicted as a wrathful deity. 

Mahakala is also an important deity in East Asian Buddhism, where he is generally known as a protector figure. In Japanese Buddhism, Mahakala transformed into a more friendly wealth and luck deity, known as Daikokuten. 

Mahakala is commonly regarded as the emanation of different beings in different cases, such as Hevajra, Vajradhara, Amitabha, and Avalokiteshvara or Akshobhya Buddha. Different tantric cycles, like Guhyasamaja and Chakrasamvara, each contain Mahakala as an emanation of their central Buddha deity. 

Mahakala is almost always depicted with a crown of five skulls, which represent the transmutation of the five klesas (negative afflictions) into the five wisdoms.

He also wears a garland consisting of fifty severed heads; the number fifty is in reference to the number of letters in the Sanskrit alphabet and is symbolic of the pure speech of Buddha. 

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The Great Manifestation of Avaloketishvara Bodhisattva - Mahakala

Mahakala is one of the most popular protector deities in Tibetan Buddhism, and he is also sometimes used as a meditational deity (yidam) in tantric Buddhist yogas. 

He is depicted in a number of variations, each with distinctly different qualities and aspects. He is generally depicted as a wrathful deity. 

What is the meaning of Mahakala? Mahakala: “Great Time." Mahakala is one of the most popular guardians in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. 

Here he tramples a corpse while wielding a flaying knife and a blood-filled skull cup, signifying the destruction of impediments to enlightenment. 

In the crooks of his elbows he supports a gandi gong, a symbol of his vow to protect the community of monks. His principal companions, Palden Remati and Palden Lhamo, appear to his left, and Legden Nagpo and Bhutadamara are at his right. 

At lower left is Brahmarupa blowing a thighbone trumpet. He is especially revered by the Sakya order, which commissioned this work. 

This thangka, one of the earliest and grandest of this subject, can be related to murals preserved in the fifteenth-century Kumbum at Gyantse monastery, central Tibet, likely painted under Newari direction.

Mahakala appears as a protector deity in the various traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism, like Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Shingon, and Tibetan Buddhism. 

Numerous traditions of Mahayana Buddhism rely on Mahakala as a guardian deity (Dharmapala, "dharma protector"). Mahakala is one of the most popular protector deities in Tibetan Buddhism, and he is also sometimes used as a meditational deity (yidam) in tantric Buddhist yogas. 

He is depicted in a number of variations, each with distinctly different qualities and aspects. He is generally depicted as a wrathful deity. 

Mahakala is also an important deity in East Asian Buddhism, where he is generally known as a protector figure. In Japanese Buddhism, Mahakala transformed into a more friendly wealth and luck deity, known as Daikokuten.

Mahakala is commonly regarded as the emanation of different beings in different cases, such as Hevajra, Vajradhara, Amitabha, and Avalokiteshvara or Akshobhya Buddha.

Different tantric cycles, like Guhyasamaja and Chakrasamvara, each contain Mahakala as an emanation of their central Buddha deity. 

Mahakala is almost always depicted with a crown of five skulls, which represent the transmutation of the five klesas (negative afflictions) into the five wisdoms. 

He also wears a garland consisting of fifty severed heads; the number fifty is in reference to the number of letters in the Sanskrit alphabet and is symbolic of the pure speech of Buddha. 

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The Great Manifestation of Avaloketishvara Bodhisattva - Hayagriva

Hayagriva 馬頭明王is a wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. Avalokiteshvara embodies the compassion of all the Buddhas and connects to the enlightened mindset. 

In Tibet, Hayagriva was taught especially by Buddhist teacher Atisa and appeared as a worldly dharmapala. His special ability is to cure diseases, especially skin diseases, even as serious as leprosy, which is said to be caused by nagas.

According to Tibetan Buddhism, Hayagriva is the wrathful form of Vajrasattva, who assumes the form Avalokiteśvara and turns into Hayagriva in order to defeat the powerful demon Rudra, who has submitted the gods. He is accompanied by Vajrapani, who assumes the power of Tara and then becomes the wrathful Vajravarahi. 

Hayagriva is a wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. Avalokiteshvara embodies the compassion of all the Buddhas and connects to the enlightened mind. 

In the Hayagriva manifestation, he represents the enlightened speech of all Buddhas. He is the Heruka of the Lotus (Padma) Buddha Family. 

Referred to as “Lotus-like Speech,"  he is usually depicted as red in color with a dark-green horsehead with a blazing red mane emerging from his fiery red crown. 

The fierceness of his speech is represented by the screaming or neighing horsehead. The neigh or cry of a wild horse on the Tibetan plains is known to have the loudest cry, but in this guise, it symbolizes the roar of Dharma carried by the wind. 

Hayagriva can be depicted in a number of ways, often with three heads representing the three doors of body, speech, and mind. His six arms symbolize his overcoming of the suffering of the six realms through the practice of the six perfections (paramitas, Sanskrit paramitas). 

Hayagriva can be shown with three faces: a smiling green face on the right, a white face on the left showing covetousness, and a red face in the center. Each face has three wrathful, bulging eyes, each seeing the three times of past, present, and future. 

There are two stories associated with Hayagriva. In the first, Hayagriva is the wrathful form of Vajrasattva, who first appears as Avalokiteshvara. 

He then manifests as Hayagriva in order to defeat the powerful demon Mahesvara/Rudra, who has overpowered the gods. All peaceful means to suppress Rudra had failed, and thus the skillful means of wrath was necessary to overcome the destructive ego and attachment represented by Mahesvara/Rudra. 

This story is told at length in chapters 5-8 of the Padma Thangyig Serteng, or The Golden Rosary of the Lotus-born, written down by Khandro Yeshe Tsogyel. 

Hayagriva joins forces with Vajrapani, who assumes the power of Tara and then becomes the wrathful Vajravarahi. In their previous lives, Vajrasattva was Rudra’s master, and Vajrapani was his fellow disciple, who unlike Rudra understood and respected the Buddhadharma. 

Hayagriva and Vajravarahi engage with Rudra in a series of nine dances and fierce battles. Finally, Hayagriva shrinks in size and enters Rudra through his anus. Once inside, he then grows to gigantic proportions and destroys him from the inside out. 

Defeated, Rudra pledges to become a protector of dharma. Hayagriva then wears Rudra’s demonic body as a garment.Donations for our Buddhist research and development. 

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The Great Manifestation of Avaloketishvara Bodhisattva - Chenrezig

Why is Chenrezig known as the Buddha of compassion?

Chenrezig is a Buddha who symbolizes the compassion of all the Buddhas. He vowed himself that he would not rest until all beings entered Nirvana.

In that process, he takes a vow: "May I be able to establish in emancipation all the living beings in the cruel Land of Snow, where beings are so hard to discipline and none of the Buddhas of the three times has stepped out.

I may be able to mature and liberate them, each according to his way. May that gloomy, cruel country become bright, to the island of precious jewels." and takes a form with 1000 arms, 1000 eyes, and 11 heads to see and help everyone who is needed.

The meaning of the word chengrezig is CHAN means "eye, RE means "idea of continuity, and ZIG means 'to look." 

He is one of the celebrated deities, and he was the lord gifted with complete enlightenment who refrains from entering the blissful state of nirvana to remain below and save the living being of the earth. 

He is visualized in many forms, with various
numbers of faces armed and with various
colors and ornaments. He is four-armed
Chenrezig; his two arms are joined in the
prayer position, and his left arm is holding a
lotus flower, and his right hand is holding a
crystal mala (rosary).

He used to count that rosary and repeat his mantra, "Om Mani Padme Hum." He is the Boddhisattva of boundless compassion, which is the very embodiment and realization of the four immeasurable hands and arms signed of his. 

Universal love and compassion are the very foundation of every bodhisattva's spirituality, yet nowhere are they more evident than in Chenrezig. In many ways, he is the archetypal expression of compassion, which is the prerequisite for attaining enlightenment. 

What is the power of Chenrezig?

Reciting the Chenrezig mantra can bring all these incredible benefits because the act of reciting it with a strong, pure motivation has the power to transform our mind in two ways: 

By diminishing our negative minds and thus purifying our delusions, and by increasing our positive minds and thus accumulating great merit. 

What are the benefits of Chenrezig's mantra? 

Then the particular benefit of these mantras is that you generate great compassion for all sentient beings. Therefore, this is the best thing that you can do for world peace. Reciting these mantras is unbelievably important, it makes one's mind more peaceful, more calm, and more compassionate to others. 

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Homage to Goddess of Love Red Tara Kurukulle

Kurukulla is a goddess of enchantment, attraction, and love in Vajrayana Buddhism. She goes by the name Rigjema, or the Mistress of Knowledge, in Tibetan.

As a dakini, Kurukulla embodies the highest wisdom, eradicating ignorance and transforming unpleasant emotions into pure consciousness. 

She is associated with the four enlightened practices described in the Buddhist tantras (Tib. le shi): pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and subduing. She is especially strongly linked to the attractiveness and magnetism of ideal circumstances. 

She also has the capacity to control and transform sensual desires into a means of accessing Dharma, the greater reality. Her enlightened mind is thought to be full of passion (chag thug) and fervent loving compassion (tse we je chag) in Vajrayana. 

However, in her instance, these deep feelings are thought to be wholly devoted to the well-being of sentient creatures and free of any self-serving intent. Her main goal in offering her sympathy and love without conditions is to end their pain. 

She has one face, four arms, and three eyes. Her exquisite, enlightened body is colored the ruby color of passionate, loving kindness.She carries a bow, a floral-tipped arrow, and an enticing hook with grace.I prostrate and honor the victorious one, Kurukulle. 

Her red color symbolizes her ardor and her bond with love. She is identified with the goddess of love in this capacity. Her most recognizable symbol, the bow and arrow, is reminiscent of the Roman Cupid or the Greek Eros. 

These qualities are present in practically every form of Kurukulla and help with the ritual subjection of a specific object as well as the alteration of awareness. 

The bow and arrow are employed, on the one hand, to draw in the target and, once inside, pierce it to release a wave of love and passion. 

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The practice of Kurukulla helps to achieve numerous secular and spiritual goals. Worldly benefits include attracting love, improving relationships, increasing respect and support from parents and friends, subjugating demonic powers, healing, accumulating wealth, finding work, and gaining approval. 

What is the power of Kurukulla? 

Kurukulla is a powerful, semi-wrathful female deity belonging to the Lotus family. She is a feminine embodiment of enlightened wisdom and is a dakini skilled in magnetizing everything required by the practitioner. Her magnetizing and increasing power attracts wisdom, happiness, health, wealth, and long life. 

What is the mantra of Kurukulla?

Om Kurukulle Hrih Svaha 

This mantra uses the vocative form (Kurukulle) of her name. 

Is Kurukulle an enlightened dakini?Kurukulla is an enlightened dakini. Who embodies the most incredible wisdom that vanquishes ignorance and converts negative emotions into pure consciousness. 

She is related to the four tantric Buddhist enlightened activities of tranquility, enrichment, attraction, and subjection. She is also the goddess of magic and miracles. She is also the goddess who always surprises the worshiper with her prowess. 

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