White Heruka Chu Len
White Heruka Chu Len
Entitled:
Composed by
Yangchen Drupai Dorje
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Translation:
2007 David Gonsalez, with permission
(www.dechenling.org)
All Rights Reserved.
Cover Image:
From the Rubin Collection in New York, with permission
All Rights Reserved.
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Introduction
This practice of White Heruka is a method for receiving
the blessing of the four empowerments you received at
the time of taking the empowerment from your Guru. It
is also a method for blessing and transforming the longlife substances that are used as a basis for receiving those
four empowerments.
To be qualified to be able to do this sadhana you must
have not only received the empowerment but have
completed the Action Permitting Retreat of this Deity.
Arrange the substances as explained in the introduction
below; the life pills can be made of any edible substance.
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Colophon
This supreme instruction was a direct command given by
Manjushri
Directly to both Venerable Father Holy Conquerors
[Lama Tsongkhapa and Lama Umapa].
This very instruction for accomplishing life contains all
the essential points,
Like the tip of a victory banner possessing
Eight branches or like a well compared to
The shore of an ocean.
It is difficult to find the instructions of this profound
Tantra;
If others mistaken views are accepted, ones own
tradition will suffer.
In the past, I myself have made unmistaken dedication
prayers
To be cared for by a completely valid Lama with all the
characteristics
And to cherish these unmistaken vast and profound
Instructions and to be entrusted to this very Deity of Life.
For that purpose, do not defile the teachings of the secrets
of the Venerable Lama
Through your own effort and spoil them by mixing.
In short, the rosary of this poem is for the purpose of increasing
ones own practice and from that obtain the pure, white
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Dedication
Your blazing body subdues attachment in the three worlds
With a thousand white light rays like a hundred thousand
suns.
May the many passionate beings of your bodily parts
All simultaneously dance.
The valid goddesses, with valid commitments,
And the supreme valid explanations they have taught,
By the truth of these, may the goddesses
Take us into their care.
May I myself become Heruka
For the sake of all living beings,
And then lead every living being
To Herukas supreme state.
Through the power of the blessing of the Buddhas and
Bodhisattvas
And my single-pointed accomplishment of practice and
prayers,
May we be cared for by our Lord and Master,
And may his life be as stable and limitless as
Chakrasamvara.
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Conclusion
Propitiate the Deity by making offerings, praises, and requests.
Then make dedication and auspicious prayers.
Outer offerings
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA
AHRGHAM PRATITZA SHA
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA PADM
PRATITZA SHA
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA PUPE
PRATITZA SHA
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA DHUPE
PRATITZA SHA
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA DIWE
PRATITZA SHA
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA
GNDHE PRATITZA SHA
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA
NEWIDE PRATITZA SHA
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA
SHAPTA PRATITZA SHA
Inner offering
OM CHAKRASAMVARA SITA SAPARIWARA, OM
AH HUM
Praise
Your body with the marks and signs is beautiful to behold,
Your melodious Brahma speech is wonderful to hear,
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receive the secret empowerment. I become a knowledgeholder of life and achieve the attainment of immortality.
Recite this and meditate.
Wisdom-Mudra Empowerment in Dependence
upon Heruka Father and Mother
I myself enter into embrace with the Wisdom Mother and
a duplicate of the central Deity separates and arrives at
the crown of my head.
Recite this and place a flower on your crown.
The two Deities at my crown enter into embrace. The
red and white bodhichitta melts and enters into the crown
of my head and descends to my throat, heart and navel.
My whole body is filled I generate the four joys in stages
and I attain the realization of bliss and thatness. All of my
negative karma accumulated since beginningless time is
purified, in particular that of the mind. In particular
taking the life of others and all the negative karma and
obscurations that cause a short life are purified. I receive
the wisdom-mudra empowerment, I become a
knowledge-holder of life, and I achieve the attainment of
immortality.
Recite this and meditate.
Precious Word Empowerment in Dependence
upon the Life-Pill
Once again from the HUM at the heart of the central
Heruka Chakrasamvara, a duplicate emanates. It leaves
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