Zangdokpalri - A Prayer of Aspiration for the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory

Zangdokpalri - The Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory is the pure land where Guru Rinpoche now dwells, said to be located in Ngayab Ling. At the peak of the Copper-Coloured Mountain, Padmasambhava liberated the king of the rakshasas, Raksha Thötreng, and assumed his form. Now he dwells in Zangdokpalri as a ‘vidyadhara of spontaneous presence,’ the fourth vidyadhara level.

There,” writes Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche, "he manifested the inconceivable Palace of Lotus Light, and presides as a king, with one of his emanations in each of the eight continents of the rakshasas, giving teachings like the Eight Great Methods of Attainment of the Kagyé, and protecting the people of this world of Jambudvipa from fears for their life.

Even to this day, he reigns as the regent of Vajradhara, the ‘vidyadhara of spontaneous accomplishment of the ultimate path’; and thus he will remain, without ever moving, until the end of the universe.

About the Copper - Colored Mountain

While Pure Land Buddhism is generally thought of as an East Asian tradition with an Indian origin, the Copper-Colored Mountain is in fact the first and only pure land with scriptural origins entirely in the Tibetan tradition. 

It represents Tibetan culture’s fascinating intersection of traditional history with the liturgical Tantric practice. The Copper-Colored Mountain is understood to be the current abode of Padmasambhava, the Indian master credited with first bringing Buddhism to Tibet and founding Tibet’s first monastery, Samye.

After leaving Tibet, it is said that Padmasambhava set up residence on Cāmara, one of the two islands on either side of the continent of Jambudvipa, our world according to Buddhist cosmology. After taming the resident ogres of Cāmara and converting them to Buddhism, he then built an octagonal palace where Buddhist practitioners may be transported in visions and dreams or reborn through aspiration prayers.

Zangdokpalri - A Prayer of Aspiration for the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory

(By Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa)

Dömé shi dang yermé pema jung

Lotus-Born, you are inseparable from our original nature.

Rangnang dakpé zangdok palri zhing

Your realm, the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory, is our experience in its purity.

Nang rik yermé machö nyukmé ngang

May we take birth in this primordially pure realm.

Döné namdak zhing du kyewar shok

May all be born in the original pureland.

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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

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Prayer To Guru Rinpoche - To Clear Away Obstacles On The Path

Precious guru, embodiment of all Buddhas of the three times; Great bliss, the lord of all accomplishments; Wrathful power, who dispels all hindrances and subdues demons; Pray bestow your blessings. Please remove the outer, inner, and secret obstacles and grant your blessings to accomplish the wishes spontaneously.

When, due to the obstacles of the elements, earth, water, fire and wind, This illusory body, which is rented, is meeting the time to be perished. Requesting undoubtedly, without two pointed mind to Padmasambhava and the Goddess of the Elements, [there is] no doubt the four elements get naturally pacified. 

I request, Orgyen, the One Arising From the Lotus (Orgyen Pädma Chung Nä), Please bless the wishes to succeed naturally.

Hung urgyen yulgi nubchang tsam. Pema gesar dongpo la. 

In the northwest country of orgyen appearing miraculously on the stamen of a lotus stalk

Yat sen chogi ngodrup nye. Pema jungne she su dra.

Prossessed of the supreme accomplishment. Your are called pema jungne - the lotus born

Khordu khandro mangpo kor. Kyeki jesu dagdrup kyi.

Surrounded by a retinue of many dakinis, please come to this place and bless that i may follow after you.

Chingyi lopchir shegsu sol.Nechog diro chinpob la.

Bless this sublime place.

Drubchog dagla wongshi kur. Gegdang logtren barche sol.

Bestow the four empowerments to me the sublime practioner. Clear away obstructions and misleading forces.

Chogdang thunmong ngodrup tsol.

Pray and bestow the ordinary and supreme accomplishments

Om ah hung bendza guru pema siddhi hung.

Om ah hung bendza guru pema thotreng tsal bendza samaya dza dza sarwa siddhi phala hung ah hri ma hari nisa ratsa hri ya tsitta hrim hrim dza dza.

Guru kandroi tsokche kyi. Dakchak mopei bunam la.

Guru, host of dakinis and so on, to i and all your faithful sons

Lula kuyi chingyi lop. Ngak la sungi chingyi lop.

Bless our body by your body. Bless our speech by your speech,

Yidla thukkyi chingyi lop. Wangshi kurwar chingyi lop.

Bless our mind by your mind. Bestow the blessing of the four empowerments.

Gyushi takpar chingyi lop. Lamshi chongpar chingyi lop.

Bless us to purify the four streams. Bless us to traverse the four paths.

Kushi thoppar chingyi lop. 

Bless us to attain the four bodies.

Om ah hung bendza guru pema dewa dakini kaya abhikentsa om waka abhikentsa ah tsitta abhikentsa hung sarwa abhikentsa hri.

"Om ah hung bendza guru pema siddhi hung"

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For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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

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Golden Drink (Serky) and Torma Offering Prayers

Golden Drink (Serkyem) and Torma Offering Prayers - Written by Dudjom Lingpa

Könchok sum dang tsa sum chökyong tsok

Hosts of the Three Jewels, Three Roots and Dharma protectors,

Chi yi dé gyé nang gi dé gyé dang

The outer eight classes, the inner eight classes,

Sangwé dé gyé chok gi dé gyé dang

The secret eight classes, the supreme eight classes,

Trulpé dé gyé nangsi dé gyé sok

The emanating eight classes, the eight classes of all that appears and exists and so forth,

Trulpé yangtrul kadö drenyok ché

Together with your further emanations, attendants and servants,

Dir shek serkyem tormé chö bul zhé

Please come here, accept this offering of golden drink and torma,

Tünkyen samdön drub la galkyen dok

Avert bad circumstances, bring us favorable conditions, let our wishes and aims be fulfilled,

Rabjam trinlé malü yongdrub dzö

And accomplish all the infinite enlightened activities, I pray!

Ka dang dam lé ma da samaya

Do not transgress the sacred vows and commands! Samaya!

Who is Dudjom Lingpa?

Dudjom Lingpa aka Chakong Tertön (1835-1904) — a great Nyingma master and tertön whose revelations fill twenty volumes. He was considered to be the emanation of Khye'u Chung Lotsawa, one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche. His immediate incarnation, born even before he himself passed away, was Dudjom Rinpoche.

Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1904) was a Tibetan meditation master, spiritual teacher and Trenton.  He stands out from the norm of Tibetan Buddhist teachers in the sense that he had no formal education, nor did he take ordination as a monk or belong to any established Buddhist school or tradition of his time.

He was met with great skepticism by many of his contemporaries, due to the fact that, despite not studying under any established Buddhist teachers of his time, he claimed to receive teachings on meditation and spiritual practice directly from non-physical masters like Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal, as well as Bodhisattvas such as Avalokitesvara and Manjushri. It was not until his disciples started showing clear signs of spiritual maturity, that he was accepted by his contemporaries as an authentic teacher and terton. 

Today his teachings and literary works, especially those on non-meditation (Dzogchen), are highly regarded within the Nyingma-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism

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May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

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May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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Terton - The Great Discoverers of Ancient Hidden Buddhist Texts or Terma

Terton -  The Discoverers of Ancient Hidden Buddhist Texts or Terma

Terton is a term within Tibetan Buddhism meaning a person who is a discoverer of ancient hidden texts or terma. Many tertöns are considered to be incarnations of the twenty five main disciples of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), who foresaw a dark time in Tibet. He and his consort Yeshe Tsogyal hid teachings to be found in the future to benefit beings. 

A vast system of transmission lineages developed. Scriptures from the Nyingma school were updated by terma discoveries, and terma teachings have guided many Tibetan Bon and Buddhist practitioners.

The Termas are sometimes objects like statues, and can also exist as Dharma texts and experiences. Tertöns discover the texts at the right time and place. The teachings can be relatively simple transmissions as well as entire meditation systems. Termas are found in rocks, water and the minds of the incarnations of Guru Rinpoche's students.

Who was the first Terton?

Sangyé Lama

Starting with the first tertön, Sangyé Lama (1000–1080) and Drapa Ngönshé (1012–90), discoverer of the Four Medical Tantras, there have been hundreds of masters who specialized in the discovery of terma, continuing up until the present day with Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche and Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Sangyé Lama (1000-1080) — the first tertön, or revealer of spiritual treasures (termas) hidden by Guru Rinpoche for the benefit of future generations. He was the first incarnation of Gyalsé Lharjé—one of the sons of Mutik Tsenpo and the immediate incarnation of King Trisong Detsen. One of his main termas was Tsa Sum Dril Drup , which was later rediscovered as a yang ter by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo—the thirteenth emanation of Gyalsé Lharjé.

There are said to be one hundred great tertöns and one thousand minor ones, of whom five in particular are known as the ‘Five Terton King or Sovereigns’:

The Five Terton King / Sovereigns:

Nyang Ral Nyima Özer (1124–1192)

Guru Chöwang (1212-1270)

Dorje Lingpa (1346-1405)

Pema Lingpa (1450-1521) 

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820-1892).

Female Tertön  

Some influential female tertöns have all been considered to be emanations of Yeshe Tsogyal: 

1. Jomo Menmo (13th century), the consort of Guru Chöwang

2. Mingyur Paldrön

Sera Khandro (1892–1940)

Other influential female tertöns include:

Tāre Lhamo (1938–2003)

Ayu Khandro (Long Life Dakini, 1839–1953) 

Other important Nyingma tertöns include:

1. Zhangtön Tashi Dorjé (1097–1167), reveled the Vima Nyingthig
2. Rinchen Lingpa (1295–1375)
3. Sangye Lingpa (1340–1396)
4. Rigdzin Gödem (1307–1408), revealed the Northern Treasures
5. Karma Lingpa (14th. century), revealed the Kar-gling zhi-khro, which includes the Bardo Thödrol
6. Thangtong Gyalpo (1385–1510)
7. Ratna Lingpa (1403–1471)
8. Kunkyong Lingpa (1408–1489)
9. Tennyi Lingpa Padma Tsewang Gyalpo (1480–1535)
10. Lhatsün Namkha Jikmé (1597–c.1650)
11. Jatsön Nyingpo (1585–1656), revealed the Könchok Chidü
12. Namchö Mingyur Dorje (1645–1667), known for the Namchö (Sky Dharma)
13. Terdak Lingpa (1646-1714)
14. Jigme Lingpa (1729–1798), known for the Longchen Nyingthig
15. Orgyen Chokgyur Lingpa (1829–1870)
16. Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1904), revealed part of the Dudjom Tersar
17. Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (10 June 1904 – 17 January 1987), reincarnation of Dudjom Lingpa, revealed part of the Dudjom Tersar

The Great Tertons In other Tibetan Buddhist schools

The 15th Karmapa Khakyab Dorje of the Karma Kagyu Lineage was a tertön. There was a prophecy from Yeshe Tsogyal that he should take Tantric consorts. Initially, he wished to stay a monk, but his health was failing. Meditation masters told him he would die if he didn't fulfill his functions as a tertön. In 1892, he was convinced to marry when he was 20 years old. By the time the 15th Karmapa died, he had accumulated 40 boxes of termas, texts and objects.

The 5th Dalai Lama was a tertön who revealed a Dzogchen terma cycle through his pure visions known as the Sangwa Gyachen (Bearing the Seal of Secrecy).

Another noteworthy tertön is Tsangpa Gyare, founder of the Drukpa Lineage (12th century).

The Drikung Kagyu also has a Dzogchen terma tradition, the Yangzab Dzogchen, based on termas revealed by Rinchen Phuntsog (16th century).

The Fifth Lelung Jedrung, Lobzang Trinle (b.1697 - d.1740) was also a terton.

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For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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

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100 Deities of Bardo State - The Eight Wrathful Females (Part 7)

Bardo, The Intermediate State:

Bardo is the Tibetan word for between, or an in-between, state. In a religious context the term is most referenced in regard to the state of existence that occurs between death and rebirth. Under the subject of bardo some of the topics of interest that are related to art are the sights and visions that a being is believed to experience during that time. In the West this subject is most commonly referred to as 'The Tibetan Book of The Dead.

Bardo is an abstract concept. There are no actual images of the bardo. Deity figures and mandala-like shapes are used to convey the ideas of the state between death and rebirth.The 'Terton' Karma Lingpa (1326–1386), in the 14th century, is credited with the discovery of the 'treasure text' known as the Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo (Tibetan Book of the Dead).

A text intended to be read to the deceased and to influence positively the subsequent rebirth. (There is evidence to suggest that the famous 'Treasure Finder' of the Bon Religion - Shenchen Luga (996-1035) - had discovered similar texts in the 11th century).

The assembly mandala of Bardo deities depicts a perfected state of beings and the central deities within, symbolizes the perfected states of the meditators' own awareness, psycho-physical aggregates, elemental properties and sensory and mental process.

The peaceful deities symbolize the natural purity of these fundamental components of beings while the wrathful deities are the transformative aspects of the energies. The outer deities of these mandalas are the mode of activities of an enlightened being.

100 Deities of Bardo (Intermediate State)

Bardo, The Intermediate State: The assembly of 100 deities: 1) The 42 peaceful deities 2) The 58 wrathful deities

The 58 wrathful deities - The Eight Wrathful Females

The eight wrathful females or eight gaurima are counted among the mandala of the fifty-eight wrathful deities. They are:

1. Gauri - The White Lady (dkar mo)
2. Pukkasi - The Fragrant Lady (spos mo)
3. Chauri - The Thief Lady (chom rkun ma)
4. Ghasmari - The Voracious Lady (sme sha can)
5. Pramoha - The Bewildered Lady (rab tu rmongs ma)
6. Chandali - The Fierce Lady (gtum mo)
7. Vetali - The Undead Lady (ro langs ma)
8. Shmashani - The Charnel Ground Lady (dur khrod ma)

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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

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100 Deities of Bardo State - Fifty-Eight Wrathful Deities (Part 6)

Bardo, The Intermediate State:

Bardo is the Tibetan word for between, or an in-between, state. In a religious context the term is most referenced in regard to the state of existence that occurs between death and rebirth. Under the subject of bardo some of the topics of interest that are related to art are the sights and visions that a being is believed to experience during that time. In the West this subject is most commonly referred to as 'The Tibetan Book of The Dead.

Bardo is an abstract concept. There are no actual images of the bardo. Deity figures and mandala-like shapes are used to convey the ideas of the state between death and rebirth.

The 'Terton' Karma Lingpa (1326–1386), in the 14th century, is credited with the discovery of the 'treasure text' known as the Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo (Tibetan Book of the Dead).

A text intended to be read to the deceased and to influence positively the subsequent rebirth. (There is evidence to suggest that the famous 'Treasure Finder' of the Bon Religion - Shenchen Luga (996-1035) - had discovered similar texts in the 11th century).

The assembly mandala of Bardo deities depicts a perfected state of beings and the central deities within, symbolizes the perfected states of the meditators' own awareness, psycho-physical aggregates, elemental properties and sensory and mental process.

The peaceful deities symbolize the natural purity of these fundamental components of beings while the wrathful deities are the transformative aspects of the energies. The outer deities of these mandalas are the mode of activities of an enlightened being.

100 Deities of Bardo (Intermediate State)

Bardo, The Intermediate State: The assembly of 100 deities: 1) The 42 peaceful deities 2) The 58 wrathful deities

The fifty-eight wrathful deities are:

The Assembly of 58 Wrathful Bardo Deities :In this mandala of deities are the wrathful emanations of Samantabhadra, the five Buddhas and his consorts, gatekeepers, offering goddess and many more. 

The five wrathful Herukas and their five consorts—the wrathful aspect of the Buddhas of the five families and of the five female Buddhas are:

1. Buddhaheruka and his consort Buddhakrodhishvari

2. Vajraheruka and his consort Vajrarodhishvari

    3. Ratnaheruka and his consort Ratnarodhishvari

       4. Padmaheruka and his consort Padmakrodhishvari

                                    

                                   5. Karmaheruka and his consort Karmakrodhishvari

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.


Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.


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