Chakrasambhava（2）

Chakrasambhava（2）

Vajravarahi is red faced, with 3 eyes. She holds a crescent moon blade in the right hand while her left holds human-bone skull bowl filled with ghost blood and offers it to Buddha father, symbolizing five kinds of amrita and happiness. Vajravarahi rotates the curved blade, terrifying the four directions. The red and naked body represents purity without blemish. Her hair is also half up and half flowing. She has five kinds of body prints: head decoration, ear decoration, throat decoration, two stringed necklace, two bracelets of hand and leg, and wears a necklace of by 51 five-coloured human heads, symbolizing that the 51 heart places are all empty.

Also considering the aspect of culture, the author has written a summarising eulogy according to written works of many saints. The parts about the image of Chakrasambhava are only provided as a reference for researchers and must not be taken as supplementary content for visualization. In the meditation ritual of the Creation Stage of the “Five Golden Dharma of Niguma”, Jianggong Guru transmitted the pure dharma teaching inherited from all lineage ancestor gurus, disciples must not mix worldly emotions, personal will and random dharma into it. The content below is recorded for the sake of cultural aspects and should not be used in the religious aspect of practical meditation. This book of mine contains researched contents, and moreover I would keep a piece of documentary material for history. I dare not keep any discoveries to myself, and publish to the public, offering a few commonplace remarks by way of introduction so that others may come up with valuable opinions; and maybe I can lay brick and tile for the research on Shangpa Kagyu.

Now I put my summarizing eulogy below:

My heart is innately pure and clear, I am the yidam body.

Buddha crown and vajra, two dharma perfectly achieved

Skulls as Buddha crowns, the five wisdom achievements arise.

Yellow face increases longevity, and white face extinguishes disaster.

Red face has respect and love, and blue face subdues the devil army.

Three eyes three wisdoms of past present and future, benefiting all living beings

Black hair half towering, two eyebrows surging fire.

Blue Moni Pearl, top bun uses human-bone wheel.

Jade rings as ear decoration, half-moon endless happiness.

Human-bone necklaces and bracelet rings, bony decoration and tassel.

Ribbons at the armpit green and flying, bony ash smearing the body.

Human head bleeding necklace, tiger teeth revealed outside.

The body glows with blue light, human-bone hairpin ring decoration.

Human heads represent transience, arms represent truth.

Overcoming all condition-arising, the liberating tiger skin tied.

Two hands embracing consort, mercy and wisdom transformed into vajra and bell.

Two hands spread the elephant skin,

extinguishing foolishness subduing sentient beings.

The third pair of hands hold axe and bowl, skull bone offers amrita

The fourth pair hold a crescent moon blade, wisdom arises and frustration is silenced. Lasso and vajra hook, skilfully redeem both evil and kind.

The fifth pair hold a halberd and head, subduing Brahma and outside paths.

The sixth hold a hand-drum, a staff of human-bone on the left.

Leg extended means not entering nirvana,

redeeming living beings and preaching religion.

Leg bent means root concentration, not stepping on the way of life and death.

The left foot treads on the terrorist, subduing all anger.

The right stands on the time-girl, subduing my lust.

Subdue all outside paths, eliminate dharma obsession。

Transcending time and space, with upright-class upright enlightenment.

Buddha mother has three eyes, with curved blade in right hand.

Punishing the evil and salvaging the kind, skull bowl offers amrita.

Bright knife shining in the four directions, naked pure clear body.

The body wears five kinds of prints, yellow hair half flying.

Chain bracelet and ring belt, human heads as decoration.

Showing essential meanings of scripture,

heart empty enlightening into the tenth stage.

Lotus seat surpasses transience, foul mud cannot contaminate.

Big sun indicates empty wisdom, and wise merciful heart detached.

Thirty-two appearances good, eighty spledoured body.

Wisdom fire flame shooting, foam-like rainbow light body.

Big small Vajra, wheel-shaped and tightly strewn.

Fire melts like egg shell, Vajra tip protecting self.

Evil devils lost their gall, all obstruction-conditions disappear. 

I am the body of Yidam, non being and non empty.

Like dreams and like illusions, like light and like rainbows.

No obsession and no sacrifice, no distraction and no stupor.

Empty like air-bubble body, frankly freely carry heart.