 Dearest Friends @ CAS,
We will like to
share with you, some of the very precious and interesting accounts
of the Yidams ( or Meditational Deities ) related
to HE Luding Khen Rinpoche's programmes next week.
[ See www.casotac.
This is sent so that all
our friends will more fully appreciate and treasure the programmes
bestowed by some of the most precious and holy Masters alive today,
the organising and hosting, of course, at great sacrfice to so
many !!
To come into contact
with the Buddha's nectar-like, healing teachings and blessings
in this Dark Degenerated Age of Ours is awfully and unbelievably
precious.
The Buddha's teachings
offer us a certain path out of blistering, ceaseless pain in
samsara.
However, we will
only seriously embark upon our Dharmic journey if only first,
we are convinced of the greatness and effectiveness of the teachings
right ??
Hence, we attach
to all our friends here, the below, a "Who's Who" and "What's
What" of Maha Vairochana, Ganapati and Manjushri, whom we
hope, needs no elaborated musings.
"Namo
Amituofo !!"
"Namo
Shakyamuni Buddha, our Teacher, the Enlighten Lord !!"
bb & some awful friends
 @ CAS of Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa____________ The Maha Vairocana Buddha:
The Avatamsaka Sutra ( "Hua-Yen Jing" )
Perceiving the
inconceivable purity of the form body of Vairocana Buddha, adorned
by the marks of greatness, I experience exalted joy and serenity.
Observing his array of lights, vast as the cosmos, moment to
moment manifesting an infinitely varied ocean of colours, in
each moment of consciousness i experience floods of great joy.
Also, seeing as
many oceans of great beams of light as atoms in infinite buddha-lands
emanate from each pore of Vairocana Buddha's body, each beam of
light accompanied by as many oceans of light beams as atoms in
infinite buddha-lands, pervading all buddha-universes and extinguishing
the suffering of all beings, in each moment of consciousness i
experience floods of great joy.
Also, seeing massive
clouds of lights the colour of all jewels, as many as atoms in
all buddha-lands, emerging from Vairocana's crown moment to moment,
pervading all universes, i experience great floods of joy.......
This is the range
of the ocean of means of the enlightening liberation of supernal
manifestations of a moment of thought producing immense floods
of joy. This liberation is infinite.... this liberation is inexhaustible.
-- Chapter 39: "Entry into the Relam of Reality"
( The Flower Ornament Scripture -
a translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary, Shambala Pulbications )
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Ganapati's play:
One night, the
16th Karmapa had a dream.
It was then the
hazardous days of the 1960s, the early days in-exile from the
Land of Snows.
In His holy vision,
His Holiness saw the mighty Elephant-Headed Protector, Ganapati,
exercising His divine powers, assisting His monks in the
re-estalishment of Rumtek, the Karmapa's main seat in-exile.
The Karmapa joyfully told
His painter that He wanted the Powerful Lord Ganapati on the main
entrance of Rumtek.
Ganapati, now, lives
there ( sometimes ) and being an Enlightened Protector, He
pervades phenomenon existence and manifests whenever sentient
beings' karma connects.
Ganapati is also
a frequent guest at the main Palyul Monastery in-exile, the Namodroling,
in south India, where the few thousand Palyul monks make offerings
to Him at the behest of Guru Padmasambhava'
He shows His magnificent
Red Twelve Arm dancing aspect especially to the Sakyapas when
they called upon Him in their most esoteric cycles of the
Thirteen Golden Dharma.
Ganapati's relationship
to the Sakya Masters runs deep.
The holy biographies of the Sakyapas echoed this:
Chogyal Phagpa's father, Sonam Gyaltsen, was a great practitioner who concentrated on Ganapati practice.
At
one point Ganapati appeared before him and lifted him up into
space to the height of a mountaintop, saying: "Look below."
But Sodnam Gyaltsen was afraid. After some time, he looked and
beheld the three provinces of For
a long time Sodnam Gyaltsen had no son, and being sorely disappointed
he performed special praises to Ganapati. At length Ganapati
appeared at the dwelling of Saton Ripa and said, "Sangtsa
Sonam Gyaltsen is constantly invoking me, saying that he needs
to command the three provinces of
[ The above story from "Pal Sakya" ] ____________
An "Aside" --
The Venerable Atisha, on His way into Tibet, passed-by what is today the greyish-coloured mountainous plains of Sakya. Atisha took out His mandala ( which He kept and took wherever He went ), offered many mandalas and prostrated many times, then informing His bewildered students that in a few hundred years whence, the holy Manjushri, the holy Chenrezig and the holy Vajrapani would each take birth in this area and would establish a holy lineage, a prime upholder of Lord Buddha's teachings and a well-spring of blessings and benefits to all beings.
The Venerable Atisha is, of course, the Founder of the Kadampa Lineage.
His teaching-transmissi
[ Source: HH the 14th Dalai Lama in "The Path to Enlightenment" - Snow Lion Publication ]
Students wishing to attend the Empowerment of the Red Twelve Arm Ganapati will require a prior Highest Yoga Tantra Initiation of Hevajra OR Yamantaka OR Kalachakra OR Vajrakilaya OR the like.
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Sakya Pandita answers http://mahajana. The Ngor - Sakya Abbacy http://www.palsakya
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