Other emanations of Yamantaka appear as residents in various mandalas (13-, 17-, 21-, and 49-Deity). and its nothing from its own side you cant find it as anything from its own side and yet all three are valid. Thats really quite odd, isnt it? Shantideva points out that there are two supports of it: Excuse me if Im speaking a little bit strongly, but this is Yamantaka, and I had strong coffee before I started the lecture supporting circumstances. But if we analyze deeply, then we see that what we need to really work with is the subtlest level of our minds and the subtlest energy of that subtlest level of our minds. But very strong energy is very dangerous to work with. Its very interesting. But as they extended their hold over the Eastern Mongol regions, they needed to incorporate Yamantaka so as to win over the Eastern Mongols. But if you understand the way that ancient Indian society functioned, then you see that all of these people lived together, and so you have this common pool there. The Guru said It was worthwhile to lie. (1878 - 1941 C.E.) Its So thats a little bit different. those that use desire as a path (Guhyasamaja is the example). And on tsog day you do Yamantakas mantra three times more than your normal. From Tibet, late 19th century to early 20th century CE. [See: Explaining Vajra Expressions: 6 Alternatives & 4 Modes.] By dawn of the next day, the dakas and dakinis were singing etc. The traditional account of how Buddha gave these teachings was that he arose in the form of Yamantaka just as when Buddha gave the teachings of other tantras, like Guhyasamaja and Chakrasamvara, he arose in that form and gave the teachings and he gave these teachings in 100,000 chapters. And you should do that. Consequently the practice became one of the three principal tantras taught at the tantric colleges and monastic universities. Not only is he terrifying to look at but according to the Vajrabhairava Tantra he also has conquered all evil spirits, including the Lord of Death, Yama. This is the real enemy its all these disturbing emotions and negative attitudes in our own minds. But if its, if things change because we understand, then things would have changed because many people understand that point once they have studied Buddhism. subsidiary factors for success in the rituals namely helpful factors, the sequence of the practices, and the results attained when they are performed successfully: (a) pacifying brings protection from the eight fears, (b) increase brings the six good qualities, (c) controlling brings success in attaining the white appearance, red increase, black near attainment and clear light, (d) separating brings maintaining secrecy and avoiding the various types of demonic interference, (e) suppressing brings binding the six senses. This is a Puja of the Tantric Deity Yamantaka (the wrathful manifestation of Manjushri). everything is 100% complete. Please continue to make your life most meaningful ,with the thought of bodhicitta in every action that you do. Then one should do, use a inner offering every single day, as part of the practice and make torma offerings, also two sets of sensory offerings and the sets of sensory offerings is very important. Sometimes the study of Sanskrit and Tibetan is quite useful for clearing up some of these confusing issues., In the Upanishadic period, what we also find is that you have directional protectors. He practiced it, and he achieved visions, and he achieved results. One can guess though. Theres this whole thing that you get in the study of mythology to see what are the lessons behind the mythology, and is there a deeper psychological thing that is going on, and so on. Depending on the Yamantaka manifestation, Tibetans call him either gSin-rje-gsed or in the buffalo-faced aspect of Vajrabhairava rdo-rje jigs-byed. He has eight heads.The principal head is that of a bull or a buffalo. The Guru refused and said, Ask my disciples if I have any further secret teachings. The disciples said no. Yamantaka is the manifestation of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Stainless Wisdom. the ritual for collecting the syllables of the three Vajrabhairava mantras. This is earlier than when Hinduism itself became codified, so it was in the pre-Hindu Indian tradition. There was one big Sakya lama who was out there, and he complained to the Manchu ruler, saying Come on. So Yamantaka is already one of the protectors on this wheel in Guhyasamaja as well as on this wheel in the Yamantaka and Hevajra practices. Meditation on the deity, Yamantaka with it's five unique features is considered a crucial practice for our times. One who has achieved Yamantaka, they simply say, I am Yamantaka. You can work with this person from an anuttarayoga tantra vision. That has to be explained by a teacher. Secondly, Yamantaka is the most ferocious out of all the deities existent within the Tibetan pantheon of Buddhas. They built the Forbidden City and the Imperial City, and all these things, and it was envisioned and laid out like a Yamantaka mandala, and the emperor was Yamantaka in the center of this. Another day he saw several parrots involved in eating rice while another larger bird was killing them. I think thats a clearer way of saying it. So if you have received the empowerment, its a very, very important, very helpful, and very strong practice to involve yourself with, very effective. Chakrasamvara (Heruka) is a mother tantra practice of anuttarayoga tantra. He adopted this form in order to defeat Yama, the lord of death who was arrogantly interfering with karma by claiming victims before their time was up. Before the Manchus conquered China (in 1644), they had already accepted certain elements of Gelug when they built the Yellow Temple in Mukden, their capital (1636-38). And also, no other deities, spirits, gods, of the sky, male, female, earth, whatever, or even other protectors can overcome a practitioner of Yamantaka or one who has achieved Yamantaka. So the Second Buddha is called Gyalwa Nyipa. As Bulcsu Siklos explains in his book, the lineage of the Vajrabhairava tantra texts was brought to Tibet by Atisha, who had many Indian masters. We need a combination of compassion we want to help others and force and strength that Im not going to let all this junk thats going on in my mind prevent me from being able to help others, like laziness: I dont feel like doing it. It should be the same for other mantras, but I don't want to say that, as the benefits of OM MANI PADME HUM are what is explained. I am not being miserly about the teaching, but the Yamantaka teaching is like the heart of the dakinis. So I hope that when you took the initiation, you werent given a cow as well to bribe you into doing the practice!. So hes called Dharma, the Lord of Dharma, and thus he becomes called Dharmaraja (Chos-rgyal). So its the same thing: the practice of Yamantaka imitates the practice of death, what happens at death. So environmental, meaning place, time meaning how far away it is from the Buddha first turned the wheel of Dharma to the end of the Dharma, which is 5,000 years. Yamantaka, then, represents the goal of the Mahayana practitioner's journey to enlightenment, or the journey itself: in awakening, one adopts the practice of Yamntaka - the practice of terminating death . And underlying it is what? There are two main traditions: Okay, enough of art history or iconography. All these names that you hear for Yama in the protector practices Dharmaraja, Yamaraja (King Yama) all of that already you have in the non-Buddhist variant. Were talking about a very different type of Buddha that will appear when it is helpful and necessary. Its not an easy trip., I always find it quite helpful to think of these things as actually happening, not just some legend. Right? Theres nothing especially Buddhist about it. Psychologically its very important, actually, because in order to feel safe even in a group-therapy session or in any type of psychological session you need to have a protected space in which you feel that no harm can come from the outside and you can relax. Vajrabhairava is the one with the buffalo head and the Manjushri head above it, and he appears in three basic forms. Then do a very powerful dedication, to Yamantaka at the end and that will be very good. Its supposed to be kept that way because it could be completely misunderstood as some horrible thing, and that practitioners actually go out and kill people. It can also subdue the four maras, Devaputra mara, Skanda mara, Klesa mara, and Mrtyu mara. It was like the greatest occasion of his life., Then the Guru gave the full series of initiations. Already before you get the development of Yamantaka as a meditational deity that you actually visualize yourself in that form, already Yamantaka appears as a protector to chase away interference. Its much easier to say Yamantaka in Mongolian than to say Vajrabhairava, and so because of that, most of the time its called Yamantaka and not Vajrabhairava. So you read them, and you see that it has a full description of Yamantaka and what he looks like and what hes holding, So much is totally explicitly explained there and you say, What? This holy man meditated in a cave for forty-nine years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days so he was one day short of the fifty years and he was interrupted by two thieves who broke into his cave with a stolen water buffalo. So already in this iconography or mythology whatever you want to call it already you have Yama associated with a water buffalo. Vajravetali is the emanation of White Saraswati (dbyans can ma dkar mo). So if you think Well, did the historical Buddha do that? then you get very confused. Another name for Shiva is Bhairava. Are they all the same person that you find in the Pali canon, that you find in the Mahayana sutras, that you find in the tantra texts? That is symbolized by Yamantakas set of hands, on the left side set of hands, you will see one row, one row, one hand is holding one man impaled on a stick. For some disciples, one type of form is more helpful; for other types of disciple, another form is helpful. For that you need a teacher.. This cleansing is most easily accomplished at this time of the year and helps to decrease suffering and increase peace. [See: What Is Guhyasamaja Practice? The second of the five special features is that in two of his hands he holds intestines and a triangular fire stove. That will be more than enough for you. All the former are yidams (meditational deities) whereas Yamaraja (sometimes also called Dharamaraja) is a Dharma protector. When in union, he is so with his consort, Vajravetali (Skt: for Adamantine Ghoul; Tib: rDor-rje ro-lang-ma), who has one face, two hands, and is blue in color with orange hair pressed against her back, holding a skull cup in her left hand. Siklos, Bulcsu, The Vajrabhairava Tantras (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua VII). So Kalantaka, and then you have the Buddhist variant Yamantaka, the one that puts an end to Yama.. Each face has three large round eyes, bared fangs and frightful expressions; brown hair flows upward like flames. With Yamantakas tantra alone one can become fully Enlightened. Dharma in that tradition means justice, justice in the sense of what maintains the order of karma in terms of rebirth. When the Manchus conquered China, they identified themselves with Yamantaka and Vajrabhairava and Manjushri. For those who are interested in iconography, Black Yamari is either with: Red Yamari is usually just in the one head, two arms, two-legged version. What is it that is going to prevent us from attaining that state of a Buddha? There is also an emanation of Yamantaka (called Yamantaka or Yamantakrt) in the Ten Wrathful Ones / Uncommon Protection Wheel of the Vajrabhairava and Guhyasamaja practices. There are also some Yamantaka terma revelations in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools. But the long term disbenefit is that it will take you much longer to become an Enlightened being. Ive already spoken in previous visits about Chakrasamvara and Guhyasamaja, so now we have Vajrabhairava left. You can envision this person with a Mahayana sutra type of vision. Lalitavajra, a 10th-century scholar from the Nalanda monstary in Bihar whose main yidam was Manjushri, one day had a vision of the deity telling him to go to the land of Oddiyana and retrieve the tantras of Yamantaka. Your donations support this site and the annual costs of maintaining it. I mean, these three tantra texts have been translated into English, by the way. One has to be very, very well prepared and have a very realistic idea of how difficult its going to be. Now, he wanted to take more, and the dakini told him, Thats enough. So whats the Buddhist version of the legend? If you memorize this verse, well give you cattle. Yamantaka Meditation. Im very, very happy, and Im very pleased to hear that. So dont get too attached to one form, thinking that This is the way that it is and My tradition is correct, and all the others are wrong. Thats a very closed-minded attitude. The Yamantaka empowerment is a secret mantra empowerment of the highest class known as Highest Yoga Tantra. Youre just praying Oh God, give me a clear mind, and God in the form of Manjushri gives you it Woo-ooh-ooh! and now you have a clear mind? Not like that, please. They built big statues of Yamantaka and so on in the Beihai Temple in Beijing and one of the main halls of the Yungho Gung temple was devoted to Vajrabhairava practice, with a portrait of Qianlung Emperor as Manjushri/Tsongkhapa hanging inside it. We have this division in anuttarayoga tantra, the Gelugpa version of anuttarayoga tantra, of the obscure (or hidden or secret) tantras (sbas-rgyud) and the clear tantra (gsal-rgyud) (which is Kalachakra). All Buddhist textual sources refer to Lalitavajra as the revealer of the Vajrabhairava and Yamari tantras to an originally Indian tantric audience. Yamantaka practice became especially popular and widespread not only among the Tibetans, but also in the Mongol and Manchu regions in which Tibetan Buddhism spread. 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