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Abbreviated Sadhana Method for Actualization of Thirteen-Deity Vajrabhairava abbreviated by Dagyab Rinpoche from the Namgyal Monastery edition of the full sadhana translated by Alexander Berzin, May 2009. www.berzinarchives.com The text was slightly edited by Wolfgang Saumweber and formatted it in 2009 with the expressed permission of the translator. www.vajrabhairava.com Line drawings were taken from traditional wood-prints, line drawings by Andy Weber, and illustrations by the editor. The traditional painting on the front cover comes from the collection of the editor. This edition has been created on the occasion of the Venerable Sharpa Chojay Rinpoche giving the 13-Deity Yamantaka (Vajrabhairava) empowerment at the Gyuto Vajrayana Center in San Jose, California in June 2009.
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Lalitavajra
Instantaneous Arising
Instantaneously, I arise in the bodily form of a glorious Vajrabhairava, the Vajra Terrifier,with one face and two arms, holding a cleaver and skullcup. I am embraced by my motherly partner Vajravetali (Rolnagma), the Lady Vajra Zombie.
Consecration of the Outer Offerings to the Figures before Us and to Ourselves Generated as Vajrabhairavas
OM HRIH SHTRIH VIKRITA-NANA HUM PHAT (chase away interferences) OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHAH SARVA DHARMAH SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM (Everything) becomes devoid. Within a state of voidness, from AHs, (eight) skullcups come, broad and expansive; inside (each of which) stands a HUM. The HUMs melt and become the offerings, having, by nature, the three special features. OM ARGHAM AH HUM (water to rinse the mouth) OM PADYAM AH HUM (water to wash the feet) OM GANDHE AH HUM (cologne water for refreshing the heart) OM PUSHPE AH HUM (flower-garland crown) OM DHUPE AH HUM (incense) OM ALOKE AH HUM (butter-lamp) OM NAIVIDYE AH HUM (food) OM SHABDA AH HUM (music)
Calling Forth and Prostrating to the Field for Growing the Enlightening Networks
Radiant as a Vajrabhairava, with one face and two arms, I have in my heart, on a variegated lotus and sun, a HUM, from which light-rays (stream forth), illumining the boundless realms of the universe. They bring back in the space before me Vajrabhairava together with the gurus, encircled by a host of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, furious figures, and pure awareness holders residing therein. The light-rays dissolve back into my heart. I bow at your lotus-feet, O my vajra-holder jewel-like guru. By your kindness, I instantaneously attain A state of great bliss. I prostrate to you, Vajrabhairava, Supreme Form, Supremely Magnificent Ferocious One, Hero having supreme objects of experience, You act to tame those difficult to subdue. Making Offerings to the Figures in This Field From light-rays (emanating) from the seed-syllable at my heart, Come white Charchika, blue Varahi, Red Sarasvati, and green Parvati. Holding various offering substances in their hands, They make the offerings: OM HRIH SHTRIH HA. (blood of those with vicious intent whom weve vanquished used to rinse the mouth) OM HUM HUM PHAT. (their blood, used to wash the feet) OM VIKRITA-NANA DUSHTAM-SATTVA, DAMAKA GAH GAH. (blood from their hearts, used as refreshing cologne water) OM KUMARA-RUPINI, JAH JAH HUM PHAT. (a crown made of their five sense-organs strung together like a flower-garland) OM HRIH HAH HAI PHAT. (incense made from their flesh and fat) OM DIPTA-LOCHANA, VIKRITA-NANA, MAHA-ATTATTA, HASA-NADINI, DIPTAYE SVAHA. (butter-lamp made from their melted grease) OM VAJRA-NAIVIDYA, AH HUM SVAHA. (their five solid internal organs as food) OM VAJRA-SHABDA, AH HUM. (music from instruments made from their bones)
Taking Bardo as a Pathway for Sambhogakaya On it, I arise in the bodily form of a Causal Vajra-Holder, Manjushri. Taking Birth as a Pathway for Nirmanakaya Arising in the Form of a Resultant Vajrabhairava from my heart, as a clearly (appearing) Hero Manjushri, light-rays emanate and bring back before me all the Blissfully Gone Buddhas in the aspect of Glorious Vajrabhairavas. They dissolve into me. Description of the Father Deity I transform, on a stand of a variegated lotus, a moon, and a sun, into a Resultant Vajra-Holder, a glorious and mighty Vajrabhairava. My body is dark blue-black in color, with nine faces, thirtyfour arms, and sixteen legs standing in the pose of right ones bent and left outstretched. Able to devour (the lords of) samsaras three planes of existence, diabolically, I chortle HAHA, with my tongue darting, fangs bared, and (brow and nose furrowed) with creases of wrath. To the sides of my wrinkles of fury, my eyebrows and eyes flare like an era of destruction, and my (long) brown hair stands up on end. (With all my hands), I make threatening mudras at both mundane and extra-worldly gods, terrifying even the horrific ones, and scream, with an explosive thunder-like roar, the syllable PHAIM. I gobble human blood, grease, marrow, and fat, and have five gruesome dried skulls crowning my head. Decked with a skull-garland of fifty fresh and dripping (human) heads, Im equipped with (two) black snakes as Brahmin threads and with ornaments of bone, such as wheel-shaped crowns, earrings, and so forth, made from human bones. My belly bulges; my body is naked; my organ towers erect. My eyelashes, eyebrows, whiskers, and bodily hairs blaze like the fires of the end of time. My principal face is that of a black water buffalo, extremely ferocious and having two sharp horns. On top of it, between my horns, I have a red head, totally frightening, with blood dripping from its mouth. On top of that, I have a yellow head of a Manjushri, stern-looking, but merely on purpose, adorned (with flowers behind its ears) the ornaments of a youth and with its hair in five buns on its crown. As for my faces to the right of the base of my horns, the primary (central) one is blue, the face to its right is red, and the face to its left is yellow. As for my faces to the left of the base of my horns, the primary (central) one is white, the face to its right is grey, and the face to its left is black. These faces are extremely furious, and all nine faces have three eyes each. With my first right and left hands, I hold the fresh dripping hide of an elephant stretched open by the skin of its left front and hind legs, with its head to my right and its hairy back showing. As for my other right hands, I hold in the first, a cleaver, in the second, a dagger with three peacock feathers on its end, in the third, a wooden pestle (shaped like an hourglass), in the fourth, a squiggly fish-knife, in the fifth, a harpoon (with a rope on its end), in the sixth, an axe, in the seventh, a spear, in the eight, an arrow.
(In the back row, I hold), in the ninth, an elephant-hook, in the tenth, a skull-headed club, in the eleventh, a khatvanga-staff, in the twelfth, a weapon-wheel of blades, in the thirteenth, a fivespoked vajra, in the fourteenth, a vajra-hammer, in the fifteenth, a sword, and in the sixteenth, a large damaru-like drum. As for my other left hands, I hold in the first, a skullcup filled with blood, in the second, (by its hair, a four-faced, yellow) head of Brahma, in the third, a shield, in the fourth, a (human) leg, in the fifth, a grappling-rope, in the sixth, a bow, in the seventh, intestines, ind in the eight, a bell. (In the back row, I hold) in the ninth, a (human) arm, in the tenth, a shroud, in the eleventh, a man impaled on a stake, in the twelfth, (a triangular) fire stove, in the thirteenth, a (human) scalp, in the fourteenth, a (hand in the) threatening mudra, in the fifteenth, a triple-pointed pennant (tied to the end of a stick), and in the sixteenth, a cloth fan (tied by one side along the end of a stick). As for my right feet, (starting from the center and going back, I stand with) the first on a man, the second, a buffalo, the third, a bull, the fourth, a donkey, the fifth, a camel, the sixth, a dog, the seventh, a sheep, and the eighth, a fox. As for my left feet, (starting from the center and going back, I stand with) the first on a vulture, the second, an owl, the third, a crow, the fourth, a parrot, the fifth, a gull, the sixth, an eagle, the seventh, a mynah bird, and the eighth, a swan. (Beneath them) I also tread under my feet with their faces down, Brahma, Indra, Vishnu, and Rudra (under my right), and six-faced Kumara, Ganesha, Chandra, and Surya (under my left), as I stand in a whirlwind of a blazing mass of flames. Description of the Triple Stack Heroic Minds With myself as the commitment being, I have, at my heart, on a moon disk seat, as a being for deep awareness, a Manjushri changed to a youth. His body is yellow in color and hes sternlooking, but merely on purpose. In his right hand, he wields a sword and in his left, he holds a scriptural text at his heart. Sitting with his legs crossed in the vajra position, he is arrayed with the thirty-two excellent signs and eighty exemplary features (of a Buddha), has five buns of hair (on his head), and is adorned with all ornaments. In his heart, from an AH, comes a symbolic disk of a sun. In its center, is a being for absorbed concentration: a dark-blue syllable HUM, emanating five-colored rays of light. Description of the Motherly Partner In my lap is my motherly partner, Vajravetali (Rolangma), blue, with one face and two arms, embracing me, the father, with her right hand holding aloft a cleaver and holding with her left a skullcup filled with the blood of those having vicious intent. She has five dried skulls crowning her head, is decked with a garland of fifty dry skulls, and adorned with five ornaments of bone. Her right legs outstretched and with her left, she embraces me.
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OM RATNA-DHRIK Miserliness Yamantaka, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the miserliness of all limited beings and set them in the deep awareness of equalities, they gather back into one and settle on the seat in the south. OM ARO-LIK Desire Yamantaka, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the Ignorance of all limited beings and set them into individualizing deep awareness, they gather back into one and settle on the seat in the east. OM PRAJNA-DHRIK Jealousy Yamantaka, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the jealousy of all limited beings and set them in accomplishing deep awareness, they gather back into one and settle on the seat in the north. OM MUNGARA-DHRIK Hammer Yamantaka, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having vanquished the mara of the aggregates of all limited beings and set them in the force of belief in fact, they gather back into one and settle in the middle of the eastern portal. OM DANDA-DHRIK Club Yamantaka, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having vanquished the mara of the disturbing emotions of all limited beings and set them in the force of joyful perseverance, they gather back into one and settle in the middle of the southern portal. OM PADMA-DHRIK Lotus Yamantaka, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having vanquished the mara of death of all limited beings and set them in the force of mindfulness, they gather back into one and settle in the middle of the western portal. OM KHANGA-DHRIK Sword Yamantaka, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having vanquished the mara of the son of the gods of all limited beings and set them in the force of absorbed concentration, they gather back into one and settle in the middle of the northern portal.
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OM MOHA-RATI Charchika, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the earth elemental source of all limited beings and set them in immeasurable love, they gather back into one and settle in the southeastern corner, within (the ledge). OM DVESHA-RATI Varahi, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the water elemental source of all limited beings and set them in immeasurable compassion, they gather back into one and settle in the southwestern corner within (the ledge). OM RAGA-RATI Sarasvati, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the fire elemental source of all limited beings and set them in immeasurable joy, they gather back into one and settle in the northwestern corner, within (the ledge). OM VAJRA-RATI Gauri, father and mother, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the wind elemental source of all limited beings and set them in immeasurable equanimity, they gather back into one and settle in the northeastern corner, within (the ledge). OM AH HUM The four skullcups, incited to action, multiply to an unfathomable number, emanate out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the stains from the six cognitive objects of all limited beings, they gather back into one, outside (the ledge). OM AH HUM The immeasurably magnificent palace, incited to action, multiplies to an unfathomable number, emanates out through the pores of my motherly partner, and stream forth to the ten directions. Having purified the faults from the environment of all limited beings and secured them a state of bliss, they gather back into one and dissolve into the immeasurably magnificent palace for making a close bond.
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The Root Mantra: OM YAMA-RAJA SADO-MEYA / YAME-DORU NAYO-DAYA / YADA-YONI RAYAKSHAYA / YAKSHE YACCHA NIRAMAYA / HUM HUM PHAT PHAT SVAHA
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The Mantra of the Motherly Partner: OM VAJRA VETTALI, AGACCHA HUM JAH SVAHA
The Mantra of the Other Deities of the Mandala OM JINA-JIK HUM PHAT OM RATNA-DHRIK HUM PHAT OM ARO-LIK HUM PHAT OM PRAJNA-DHRIK HUM PHAT OM MUDGARA-DHRIK HUM PHAT OM DANDA-DHRIK HUM PHAT OM PADMA-DHRIK HUM PHAT OM KHADGA-DHRIK HUM PHAT OM MOHA-RATI HUM PHAT OM DVESHA-RATI HUM PHAT OM RAGA-RATI HUM PHAT OM VAJRA-RATI HUM PHAT (Recite each of these as much as possible.)
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Concluding Practices
Abbreviated Prayer
By the constructive force arising from my efforts in this method with pure resolve, may all wandering beings, beyond any number, never be parted, but always be cared for, n birth after birth, by the peaceful and furious Manjushris. Having manifested a supreme state of a united couple with seven features, having a nature of the five Buddha-Bodies lasting as long as space, may I lead, in an instant, all endless wandering beings quickly and easily to this very state.
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Visualization on the Final Dissolution of the HUM Syllable and its Meaning
1. Stage
e whole universe, the deities and mandalas - melt into light and dissolve into one single deity. Earth element dissolves into water element.
2. Stage
e outer deity dissolves into the syllable HUM at the heart level. Water element dissolves into re element.
3. Stage
e bottom part (=shabkyu) dissolves into the middle and upper part of the syllable HUM. Fire element dissolves into wind element.
4. Stage
e middle part dissolves into the head (= horizontal top bar) of the syllable HUM. Wind element dissolves into consciousness.
5. Stage
e head (= horizontal top bar) dissolves into the crescent (and drop and nada). Inner sign: Clear White Appearance.
6. Stage
e crescent dissolves into the drop (and nada). Inner sign: Radiant Red Increase.
7. Stage
e drop dissolves into the nada. Inner sign: Black Near Attainment.
8. Stage