Dark Red Amulet (p. xi Dark Red Amulet of Unsurpassable Yanphur)

pp. xx-xxi, xxiii-xxv biography of Tsasum Linpa

p. xx

"From the Dakini Assembly Hall of Zhoto Tidro, received the Heart Practice of the [B]Lama That Accomplishes the All the Sugatas and Fulfills All Wishes. This was the first terma [gter-ma] he revealed.

 

In a dream, Tsasum Lingpa went to the Pure Land of Lotus Light ... . ...

 

Tsasum Lingpa went back to Kham[s] and opened the secret mountain door of Jowo Zegyal, the second Tsari. This was the first of many other secret doors in sacred mountains that he opened."

p. xxi

sites identified by him in Puwo area of Khams :-

 

direction

site

of deity __

 

eastern

Gawalun valley

Haya-griva

 

southern

Jala Sindam

Yama-antaka

 

western

mt. Bonri

D.akini

 

northern

Ma Kunlun

the 8 Heruka-s

 

"Tsasum Lingpa recounted his life up to this point in his own autobiography, which is known as the Clear Garland Crystals of Fire."

p. xxiii

Tsasum Linpa’s gter-ma "teachings that include lineage transmissions and empowerments" :-

 

#

teaching

whence revealed

vol.s

 

1.

Heart Practice of the Bla-ma Who Embodieth the All the Sugata-s

Dragmar Keutsan cave in Samye Chimphu

2

 

2.

wrathful practice of Guru Rinpoche

?

2

 

3.

the 8 Great Heruka teachings

Waterlily Hidden Grove in Namchen Ron forest of Puwo Trimzig

7

 

4.

Dark Red Amulet of Vajra-kilaya

Mo:n S`a>ug Taggo

1

 

5.

Long-Life Practice Which Overpowereth Yama

Tsari

¼

 

"

Long-Life Practice of Vajra Armor

mt. Lho Wazhab

¼

 

"

Long-Life Practice of Padma Santin

neck of mt. Richen Pun Jowo Zegyal in eastern Dos`ul

¼

pp. xxiii-xxiv

"

Firm Iron Knot Which Hindereth Death

D.akini Heart cave in Dos`ul

¼

p. xxiv

6.

Practice Which Overpowereth Samsara and Nirvan.a

Waterlily Crystal cave in hidden valley Dragge

1

 

7.

Essence of the Sun Which Enjoyeth the Supreme Horse

boulder at Puwo Darna

 
 

"

Condensed Power of the Wrathful Deity Haya-griva

" " " "

 
 

"

Waves of Light of Wisdom

Riwoche region

 
 

"

Vajra-pan.i Practices Which Dominate All the Mighty Ones

" "

 
 

"

Sadhana Practice Which Hindereth Hailstones

" "

 
 

8.

Blazing Poisonous Lava Mountain

Namchen Ron valley

1

 

9.

Secret D.akini Practice Which Fulfilleth All Wishes

Secret D.akini cave of Drigun Z`otod Tidro Dragkar

1

pp. xxiv-xxv

10.

Lioness-Faced D.akini Practice Which Subdueth All Devils

Dark Red Glacial Lake of mt. Jowo Zegyal

1

p. xxv

11.

Sin Chug Gonpo practices

mt. Tsari

½

 

12.

Wealth-Deity Practice

mt. Lagon Genyen in Chamdo

½

 

13.

Black Mountain of the Devil Caste reversing invasion by armies of "foreign smokers"

?

½

p. 14 descriptions of Vajra-kilaya

according to the __

Vajra-kilaya hath __

 

__ heads

__ arms

other

Secret Tantra of Vajra-kilaya

1,000

1,000

1,000,000 eyen

Nirvan.a Tantra of Vajra-kilaya

9

18

8 legs

12-Kilaya-s Tantra

1

2

2 legs

pp. 15-16 great deities transmitting the practice of Vajra-kilaya to lesser deities, enabling those lesser deities to attain the vidya-dhara level

p.

great deity

category of lesser deities

15

Man~ju-s`ri

deva-s

 

Avalokita-is`vara

naga-s

16

Vajra-pan.i

raks.a[sa]-s & yaks.a

pp. 17-18 human vidya-dhara recipients (from a d.akini) of one casket apiece containing tantra-s

p.

__ casket

containing __

was received by __

17

copper

padma-family speech-teachings, incl. the Supreme Haya-griva Root Tantra

Naga-arjuna

 

quartz

Yandag Heruka transmission, incl. the Powerful Heruka Tantra

Hum-kara

 

bone; turquoise

Vajra-kilaya tantra-s, incl. the Vidya-uttama Tantra

Padma-sambhava; Prabha-hasti

 

gold

a-mr@ta tantra-s

Vimala-mitra

 

"red-gold"

d.akini (ma-mo) tantra-s, incl. the rGyud-lun >bum-tig rGyud (‘essence of a laks.a of tantra-s’)

Dhana-samskr@ta

18

garnet

Tantra of All the Mighty Ones ("how to control the hearts of powerful worldly beings")

Rombu-guhya Deva-candra

 

dzi

White Crystal Mala [‘Necklace’] of Wrathful Mantra-s

S`anti-garbha

 

8 metals

Embodiment of All the Su-gata-s

Padma-sambhava [again!]

{if Padma-sambhava be deemed to be in the centre square of 9 (3 * 3) square of squares -- as implied in his casket of "eight precious metals" (p. 18) -- then cf. the "turquoise" (p. 17) casket with the turquoise of Xiuh-tecuhtli (Aztec god of the centre).}

pp. 19-20 miracles performed by pointing a phurbu toward a scene

p.

person pointing

phurbu at __

miracle thereby performed

19

Padma-sambhava

sandalwood-forest-fire

"all the trees returned." {cf. Orpheus}

 

Vimala-mitra

river Ganga

"made the waters part" {cf. Mos^eh}

20

S`ila-man~ju

rock mt. in Khargon area of Nepal

"split the mountain into hundreds of pieces."

pp. 20-21 teaching received according to place in man.d.ala a tossed golden flower hath fallen into

p.

place

teaching concerning man.d.ala of __

concerning __

20-21

centre

Chemchog Heruka

--

21

western

Padma Heruka

--

 

eastern

Yandag Heruka

mind

 

southern

Yama-antaka

--

 

northern

Vajra-kilaya

activity

 

southeast

d.akini-s

"inciting and dispatching"

 

northwest

"worldly deities"

"offering and praise"

 

northeast

" "

"exorcism"

 

southwest

vidya-dhara-s

--

pp. 21-22 further miracles performed by means of phurbu-s

p.

person

site, action with phurbu

miracle thereby performed

21

king Trison Deutsen

pointed at mt. Hepo Ri

"the mountain caught fire."

21-22

+Yes`e Tsogyal

21 days at "Lion’s Nest" in eastern Bhutan

"twenty-one ritual phurbas ... started to dance and fly in the sky."

22

Namkhai N~inpo

at Lhodrag (of Marpa the Translator)

"pressed a wooden phurba into solid rock."

 

Nub Sanye Yes`e

at Drag Yandzon

"left a phurba print ... its marks are still visible."

 

Nanam Dorje Dudjom

pointed at river Tsanpo nigh Lhasa

"stopped its flow".

 

Chim S`akya Prabha

pointed "at some rock boulders,

which came together and stacked one above the other."

pp. 24-26 praevious incarnation (re-linking) of Tsasum Linpa

p.

praevious incarnation

24

"Tsasum Lingpa, who was a reincarnation of Nub Sangye Rinpoche, one of the nine heartlike students of Guru Padmasambhava."

"Nub Sangye Rinpoche went back and forth to India seven times."

25

his "vision at Bodhgaya" : "While meditating in the great vajra samadhi, he saw a golden five-pointed vajra hovering one cubit above his head. ... the vajra descended and ... it transformed into VaraPani. ... Vajrapani gave him the Sanskrit name Buddha Jnana, which is Sangye Yeshe in Tibetan." "Sangye Yeshe Rinpoche ... is considered the first Tibetan lineage holder of Anuyoga."

26

"Sangye Yeshe Rinpoche lived for 125 years and then transformed into the wisdom rainbow body."

pp. 27-34, 36-41 further biography of Tsasum Linpa

p.

biography

27

"Tsasum Lingpa is famous for recovering terma teaching from objects. The recovered termas within rocks and mountains, in the earth, and in rivers. ...

Tsasum Lingpa was born in Kham in eastern Tibet near the pilgrimage mountain of Jowo Zegyal."

28

"harelip was the identifiable trait ... of the Tsen family of mountain spirits, one of the tribes of the invisible world." Members of this family are "red".

29

"Tsasum Lingpa had a dream in which a wrathful black lady appeared. ... On the third night ..., ... she

30

said, "... the teaching is about me! You must receive that teaching.""

31

"One day while he was alone, he ... saw a ... cloud in the southwest. ... That night Guru Padmasambhava and the wisdom dakini Yeshe Tsogyal, along with many dakas and dakinis, appeared to Tsasum Lingpa in a dream. ...

32

Guru Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal ... in this dream ... took him by the hand and pointed to a large storehouse filled with countless jewels and precious objects and said, "... choose one!" A lady appeared (who was actually a dakini), and they told him, "She will be your companion. ... Today you must select the terma keys you would like from among these treasures." ... Tsasum Lingpa and the lady in the dream went into the storehouse, and he took a blue key made of sapphire. She told him to take another one, and he took a red key made of ruby. The lady took a white key made of silver. ...

33

effects of the keys in the praeternatural storehouse :-

 

__ key

its effect : to unlock __

 

sapphire

"oceanlike tantra teachings"

 

ruby

"voice of the Buddha’s teaching"

 

silver

"skilful means of visualization, the creation-stage practice."

 

yellow

"become very wealthy ... as a universal king"

 

green

"benefited yourself, but not others."

 

"Padmasambhava said, "... near the right side of the glacier mountain of Jowo Zegyal there is a mountain called Ahmye Mutri [Aa-mye Mu-khri], ... you will find special instructions about that ruby key you took ... . ... after you reveal this, you must travel far and wide, don’t stay in one place." ...

34

Yeshe Tsogyal said, "Now ... we will return to Udiyana ... ." ... She and another dakini then flew up in the sky, and then Tsasum Lingpa woke up."

 

"After that experience, he dressed up in a strange fashion; he pulled his long skirt {kilt} above his knees and put on a fox hat. He carried a thighbone trumpet and a long sword".

 

He met a 16-year-old woman who said, "I am an emanation of the O:ser Chang, and I’m planning to go to Pema Ko:." [p. 195, n. 42 : "Pema Ko: (padma bkod) is the "hidden land" at the confluence of the Tsangpo and Brahmaputra rivers in Tibet, north of the border with Assam".]

36

On mt. Ahmye Mutri, "Suddenly, Tsasum Lingpa saw a large man with blue-black skin and a lion face that filled the sky standing right in his path. He knew that this must be the Zhing Kyong Dharmapala ... . At that moment, the dharmapala picked up Tsasum Lingpa, put him on the back of his horse, and took him for a brief ride in the air. ... [At their destination,] Tsasum Lingpa ... saw a fierce woman with a lion[ess] face whose long, fiery red hair filled the sky. The was the female dharmapala Singha Rama. From every pore of her body, red blood was sizzling, and in her hand she held a khatvanga. It looked as though she was [were] eating a whole human body ... . When he woke {false awakening}, fire was burning everywhere, and there were so many

37

corpses on the ground that he couldn’t go on the ground that he couldn’t go on, he couldn’t even walk. ... the female dharmapala ... opened a door in that rocky mountain, ... and then lifted him up and pulled him inside. There he saw so many jewels, and from them she picked up one small locket shaped like a sealed vase, made of dark blue semiprecious stone [p. 195, n. 45 : "mu men, lapis lazuli"]. ...

38

When he listened carefully, he could hear the sound of bees humming and also some beautiful music coming from the locket." "He also became famous as an expert on ... the ability to control the channels and wind energy in the body. For example, he could use his wind energy to travel great distances in a very short time ... going to the pure land of Guru Padmasambhava, the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain, and he stayed there for more than a month."

39

"in Lhasa, Tsasum Lingpa had a vision of a magnificent red dharmapala who was wearing armor and a helmet, and carrying a shield, a spear, and a sword. He was riding a large red horse in the midst of his retinue of seventeen servants."

40

"The next morning, ... he saw a white light, stretching out like a white scarf from a mountain in the Drikung area to where he was. In the midst of the white lightthe wisdom dakini and dharmapala Achi Ch:dro:m appeared, riding a mule. ... She told me, "Ride behind me on the mule, and keep your eyes closed until I tell you to open them.""

41

Having arrived at a mountain via the dakini’s flying mule, "Tsasum Lingpa climbed the rock mountain ... . There he found a dark red locket that had insects crawling on it (the presence of insects was a sign that it was almost too late to retrieve the teachings). Inside the locket were yellow scrolls containing the Vajrakilaya teachings. Along with the locket, he discovered a meteoric iron vajra ... . When he pulled out these things, he looked around and saw the sky was filled with rainbow light, and celestial music was playing. ... As Tsasum Lingpa looked around, he saw many doors cut into the rock, which were opening and closing. He could see many statues and terma teachings and other things behind the doors. But as soon as he tried to get those things, the doors would close."

p. 67 relationship among the 3 "inner" categories of tantra-s, according to the rDzogs-chen tantra "Dorje Sempa Nying Gi Melong Gyu:, or the Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva" :-

__-yoga

is the __

Maha-

ground

Anu-

path

Ati-

result

pp. 69, 71-73 divine world of Vajra-kilaya; Vajra-kilaya’s divine spouse

p. 69

"From E, ... the frightening palace and the deities arise. ... In the center of the palace is a wheel with ... four sharp blades. It is like a weapon the ninjas use; it looks like a throwing star.

Above that is a triangular source of dharmas, a cho:jung, dark blue in color. This triangle is like a thick, flat slab made of blue light. ...

Above the triangle is a vajra rock, and

above the rock is a lotus with sun and moon disks on it.

Lying on the disks are the tiras ... . Tiras is a Sanskrit word that refers to male and female demons ... . ... They are lying side by side with their heads facing opposite directions. The male tira is lying face down, and the female tira is lying face up."

 

"Dorje Zho:nu" – "in this visualization Vajrakilaya has one face and two arms.

p. 71

... His vajra and phurba are made of meteoric iron and are sending out sparks of fire. He has two wings; the right wing is made of vajras, and the left wing is made of precious stones. ... Vajrakilaya ... wears a crown of five skulls and a garland of skulls. His upper garment is made of an elephant skin; at his waist, he wears a human skin; and his skirt {kilt} is made of a tiger skin. ... He has thick, long, dark yellow hair, which stands straight up and has flames coming out of each strand. On top of his head is a five-pointed half vajra, which is also decorate with snakes. A wisdom garuda hovers above Vajrakilaya’s head, emitting sparks of fire from every feather."

p. 72

"Vajrakilaya’s consort, named Khorlo Gyebed in Tibetan or Diptachakra in Sanskrit, ... is light blue and has one face ... and three eyes. ...

p. 73

She wears cemetery bone ornaments ..., and a leopard-skin skirt."

pp. 93, 97 deity internal to the divine and human body; divine colored lights entering one’s body

p. 93

"At the navel center, a powerful crocodile consumes the heart blood of the wild demons of broken samayas. ... In this sadhana, Vajrakilaya’s lower body is shaped life the three pointed blades of a phurba. The ritual-object phurba has a crocodile mouth at the navel, and the lower part is made of a meteorite."

p. 97

"the samadhisattva in your heart center radiates light to create a jnanasattva Vajrakilaya right in front of you. ... That jnanasattva Vajrakilaya radiates five-colored wisdom light back to you ..., from the forehead, speech, and heart centers of the wisdom Vajrakilaya, white red, and blue light radiates to your three centers. Finally, five-colored light again radiates from his heart center and enters your heart center."

pp. 119-120, 122 cakra-s in the body; gtum-mo; linga

p. 119

[subtle body]

cakra at __

hath __ spokes

 

great bliss

top of head

32

 

enjoyment

speech

16

 

dharma

heart

8

 

emanation

navel

64

 

great bliss [again!]

"secret"

~ 60

p. 120

"Four finger widths below the navel is the seat of tummo ... . It resides there in the shape of a Tibetan short AH and produces a fire that travels up the central cannel to the crown chakra. When he fire reaches the syllable HAM and unites with it, the white essence element melts and drips through the body."

p. 122

"clay sculptures of the objects to be liberated, called lingas in Sanskrit, ... are fashioned in the form of human beings or animals and put in a pecial kind of triangular iron box."

pp. 123-125 Jn~ana-kumara

p. 123

Jn~ana-kumara was pursued by an iron-hammer-wielding owner of 7 nanny-goats, and

p. 124

by a hunter of deer.

p. 125

"The name of the man who owned the goats translates as "the Crow of Chim." "Nyag pointed the phurba at one particular bird, rotated it and said, "This is for the Crow of Chim!" ... [At the behest of] Vimalamitra ... the crow got up and flew into the sky."

The Dark Red Amulet : Oral Instructions on the Practice of Vajrakilaya. With commentary by the Samye Translation Group. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca (NY), 2008.