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The Five Wisdom Manifestations of Sherap Jamma & The Yidam Divination During the Empowerment

Künsal Jamma Chenmo, the All-Clarifying Great Loving Mother, also known as Sherap Jamma

Enlightened beings have no purpose in manifesting from the space of abiding other than to benefit sentient beings. Spontaneously manifesting, they can appear in any way that is helpful. Although Buddha Künsal Sherap Jamma has innumerable manifestations, her five primary wisdom manifestations with individual characteristics and essence mantras are an embodiment of one of the five enlightened bodies as well as the five wisdoms, and are the source of one of the five main volumes of scripture for the teachings related to Künsal Sherap Jamma, The All-clarifying, Wise Loving Mother.

“She is the source of the essence of wisdom, as well as the source of the natural mind of all the enlightened ones. She is the empty aspect of space in which everything is arising, everything is abiding, and everything is dissolving. She is the essence of absolute reality. In order to lovingly care for all sentient beings like a mother cares for her only child, she engages in supreme activity by teaching in the manner of a goddess. She is the great mother who has given birth to all the buddhas of the three enlightened bodies.” 

Excerpt from A Ladder to Liberation, An Abridged Commentary Regarding the Words and Meaning of the Praise of the Mantra of Jamma, the Deity Who Protects From All Things

According to the tantric practice of Jamma, these five wisdom manifestations are related to as meditational deities, or yidams. The disciple takes refuge in Jamma, makes offerings and supplications to Jamma, receives purification of wrongdoing from Jamma, and practices with the pure view of the phenomenal universe as Jamma’s mandala and all beings as divine beings in her retinue. Practicing with Jamma in this way, the visualized self as Jamma and the actual wisdom deity merge. This unification arises as an action deity that is inseparable from the enlightened deity. From this state, the essence mantra is recited many hundreds, thousands, or millions of times. During a restricted personal retreat of seven to twenty-one days, the mantra is recited a minimum of 100,000 times without being interrupted by ordinary speech, eating, drinking, sleeping, and so on.

Künsal Jamma Chenmo surrounded by her five wisdom and eight protector manifestations

“The essence of the five enlightened states is Jamma. All the enlightened ones of the three times come from Jamma. Because of the swift ripening and liberation, and the attainment of all the common and supreme accomplishments that arise from this Mother of the Victors, fortunate sentient beings of future generations should focus on her essence. It will be like finding gold inside a stone. If you practice with great diligence without giving it up or diminishing the practice, you will attain the common and extraordinary results in one lifetime. Every accomplishment will be attained.”

Advice of Buddha Tönpa Shenrap Miwoché when completing his teaching of Jamma’s Root Tantra.

As with any tantric practice within the Yungdrung Bön tradition, a practitioner of the Jamma tantra should receive the oral transmission, teaching, and empowerment in order to establish a connection with the lineage and the deities, and to receive their blessings. Receiving the oral transmission gives permission to read, study, and practice the Jamma texts. From that, one can practice the Jamma texts without having received the empowerment, but it will be difficult to fully accomplish the results of the tantric practice.

During the Jamma empowerment, disciples take part in a divination in order to determine their karmic connection with one of the five wisdom manifestations of Künsal Sherap Jamma. Revealing this connection allows the disciple to focus their attention on the continuation of their Jamma practice from previous lifetimes. The disciples cover their eyes with a cloth to symbolically represent the darkness of their mind before being introduced to the enlightened deities. Those assisting with the empowerment go to each of the disciples holding a representation of Jamma’s mandala. Then, the disciple holds either a small flower or their mala above the mandala and lets it fall. Because each of the five wisdom manifestations are associated with a specific direction within the mandala, the place where the flower or mala falls determines which of the five yidam deities are karmically connected with the disciple. For example, if it falls in the East section of the mandala, this reveals that the disciple has a karmic connection from previous lifetimes with the practice of Tapgyi Jamma, the wisdom manifestation associated with the East. When their karmic yidam has been determined, the disciples remove their blindfold which represents the opening of their wisdom eye which has the ability to perceive the divine face of Jamma. Practicing with their karmic yidams and reciting their essence mantra is greatly beneficial and will bring unimaginable blessings and protection.

Depiction of the mandala palace of Sherap Jamma

Details of the Five Wisdom Manifestations of Sherap Jamma

Each of the five wisdom manifestations appear in dzok ku form, a state endowed with all perfected qualities and appear as wisdom light with no solid existence, like the bright moon reflected in water. In their appearance, they are all seated peacefully on a throne and wear the thirteen ornaments of a dzok ku: a crown, earrings, a short necklace, two longer necklaces, armlets, bracelets, anklets, a head silk, a long scarf, an upper garment, a lower garment, and a belt.

Within the commentary written by the 23rd Menri Trizen Nyima Tenzin Rinpoche entitled A Ladder to Liberation, An Abridged Commentary Regarding the Words and Meaning of the Praise of the Mantra of Jamma, the Deity Who Protects From All Things is a description of Sherap Jamma and the benefits of practicing each of the five manifestations. 

Künsal Jamma Chenmo, the All-Clarifying Great Loving Mother, is also known as Sherap Jamma. From the scripture for the empowerment:

If it falls in the center, it is designated as Künsal Jamma Chenmo, the All-Clarifying Great Loving Mother, the One with the dynamic energy of being without delusion. “Oh fortunate child of the lineage, your yidam deity is the great mother called Künsal Jamma. She has the color of molten gold. On her head is a turquoise crown, and she has turquoise earrings. In her right hand she holds a golden vase filled with the essence of nectar. Her left hand is in a dancing pose and, at the top of an uḍumbara flower, she holds a mirror that symbolizes primordial awareness. Her necklaces are the colors of the moon and crystal and are an encircled forty drops of great wisdom. Her bracelets contain precious jewels. She has bright, divine clothes with a large, flowing, silk skirt that gently moves with the wind. She is peaceful with a radiantly smiling face that expresses her loving kindness. She sits peacefully with her legs are crossed. Because she was your yidam deity in the past, she is your yidam deity now. Because she is your yidam deity now, don’t forget to meditate on her as your yidam deity. Because she will be your yidam deity in the future, she will compassionately protect you. Therefore, continually proclaim her essence mantra.”

Künsal Jamma Chenmo is the central manifestation from which the other manifestations emanate. Therefore, by focusing on her and reciting her mantra, the practice is connected with all of the countless manifestations of Jamma.

  • Direction of the Mandala: Center, The Suchness Buddha Family, Seated on a Lion Throne
  • Appearance: She has a color like blazing gold.
  • Hand Objects: She has two hands. R: a Golden Vase of Nectar, L: a Udumbara Flower that supports a Mirror of Wisdom Awareness.
  • Five Wisdoms-Five Poisons: She embodies the Wisdom of Emptiness and Victory over Confusion and Dull-mindedness.
  • Five Scriptures: She is the source of the Kham Gyé, The Unsurpassed Scripture regarding the Eight Realms.
  • Organ: Heart
  • Seed Syllable and Mantra: She arises from the seed syllable OM, which is also the source of all five wisdom manifestations. Her mantra is the essence mantra for all manifestations and also specifically associated with her. OM MA WA MA DÉ MA HI MO HA E MA HO MA YÉ RU PA YÉ TA DU DU SOHA*

Brief Description of the benefits of practicing Künsal Jamma Chenmo: You will have the ability to befriend all of appearance and existence. Immeasurable impermanence will be born in the mind-stream. Having purified the ten wrongdoings, the ten virtues will increase. Self-awareness will arise within itself, and you will awaken in the expanse of the nature of space and abide in the state of equanimity and great bliss. You will have power over cyclic existence and nirvana.

Tapgyi Jamma, or Tapchen Jamma, the Loving Mother of Great Skillful Means. From the scripture for the empowerment:

“If it falls in the east, it is designated as Tapchen Jamma who has the dynamic energy of unchanging, blissful liberation. “Oh fortunate child of the lineage, your yidam deity is the great mother Tapchen Jamma who has one face and four arms. Her two right hands hold a net and a lotus, and her two left hands hold a lasso and a yungdrung mala. She is seated on a throne of great skillful means. Because she was your yidam deity in the past, she is your yidam deity now. Because she is your yidam deity now, don’t forget to meditate on her as your yidam deity. Because she will be your yidam deity in the future, she will compassionately protect you. Therefore, continually proclaim her essence mantra.”

  • Direction of the Mandala: East, The Yungdrung Buddha Family, Seated on a Dragon Throne
  • Appearance: White like Stainless Crystal
  • Hand Objects: She has four hands. R: a Lotus and a Net, L: a Yungdrung Mala and a Lightening Lasso of Skillful Means
  • Five Wisdoms-Five Poisons: She embodies Mirror-like Wisdom and Victory over Hatred and Anger.
  • Five Scriptures: She is the source of the Der Drol Lam Bum, The Hundred Thousand Verses on the Blissful Path of Liberation.
  • Organ: Spleen
  • Seed Syllable and Mantra: She arises from the seed syllable SA. Her specific essence mantra is: OM MA MA YÉ MU YA LI CHÖ CHÖ RAM DÉ MA RI RA MU YA KHAM SOHA**

Brief Description of the benefits of practicing Tapgyi Jamma: All pain, faults, contaminated energy, defilements and impurities will be purified. The physical body will be without illness and blissful. Fears will be overcome. You will be able to proclaim the melodies of Bön with a pleasant voice. You will have power over appearance and existence. All food and resources are accumulated. Having obtained a wealth of precious treasure, the wealth of merit is never diminished. All dull-mindedness is completely abandoned and you have the supreme clarity of wisdom. Having obtained the supreme purity free of faults, you will never experiences blindness, muteness, deafness, or loss of the mental faculties.

Mönlam Jamma, or Namkhé Dzö Dzinma-Holder of a Sky-Treasury, the Loving Mother of the Path of Aspiration. From the scripture for the empowerment:

If it falls in the North, it is designated as Mönlam Jamma, Loving Mother of the Path of Aspirations, also known as Namkhé Dzö Dzinma, Holder of a Sky-Treasury, who has the dynamic energy to cause wonderful things to arise. “Oh fortunate child of the lineage, your yidam deity is the great mother Namkhé Dzö Dzinma. She is green with one face and four hands. Her two right hands hold a wisdom knife and a staff of monastic discipline with two stacked chortens [Sanskrit: stupa] on top, and her two left hands hold a renunciate’s alms bowl and and a vase of purifying water. She sits on a horse throne and is all-knowing. Because she was your yidam deity in the past, she is your yidam deity now. Because she is your yidam deity now, don’t forget to meditate on her as your yidam deity. Because she will be your yidam deity in the future, she will compassionately protect you. Therefore, continually proclaim her essence mantra.”

  • Direction of the Mandala: North, The Wheel of Bön Buddha Family, Seated on a Horse Throne
  • Appearance: Reddish Green like the heart of a flame
  • Hand Objects: She has four hands. R: Wisdom Knife and a Staff of Monastic Discipline with Two Stacked Chortens on Top, L: a Renunciate’s Alms Bowl and a Vase of Purifying Water
  • Five Wisdoms-Five Poisons: She embodies the Wisdom of Equanimity and Victory over Jealousy.
  • Five Scriptures: She is the source of the Dül Bum, The Hundred Thousand Verses on Discipline.
  • Organ: Lungs
  • Seed Syllable and Mantra: She arises from the seed syllable HA. Her specific essence mantra is OM MA MA SANG SANG LAM LAM DRUM NA GA LI GHEN DHÉ CHÖ PHUR DU DU SO HA

Brief Description of the benefits of practicing Mönlam Jamma: All defilements and obscurations will be purified and all positive qualities will be produced in the mind-stream. You will be untainted with the defects of wrongdoing. You will be like a lotus risen from the mud. The body will accumulate glory and riches and the mind will be filled with elixir. You will teach others without attachments to your activities. Your mind will be at peace and will find happiness.

Tukjé Jamma, the Compassionate Loving Mother

Tukjé Jamma, Loving Mother of Compassion. From the scripture for the empowerment:

If it falls in the West, it is designated as Tükjé Jamma, the Loving Mother of Compassion who has the dynamic energy of unceasing compassion. “Oh fortunate child of the lineage, your yidam deity is the great mother Tükjé Jamma. She is red with one face and four arms. Her two right hands hold a lasso and a sun, and her two left hands hold a jewel and a victory banner. She sits on a throne of garudas. Because she was your yidam deity in the past, she is your yidam deity now. Because she is your yidam deity now, don’t forget to meditate on her as your yidam deity. Because she will be your yidam deity in the future, she will compassionately protect you. Therefore, continually proclaim her essence mantra.”

  • Direction of the Mandala: West, The Lotus Buddha Family, Seated on a Garuda Throne
  • Appearance: Red like Coral
  • Hand Objects: She has four hands. R: An Extended Lasso and a Sun of Compassion, L: Wish-fulfilling Jewel of Happiness and a Victory Banner
  • Five Wisdoms-Five Poisons: She embodies Discriminating Wisdom and Victory over desire and Attachment.
  • Five Scriptures: She is the source of the Dön Bum, The Hundred Thousand Verses on the Meaning.
  • Organ: Liver
  • Seed Syllable and Mantra: Depending upon the source text, she can arise from either the seed syllable RI or NI. Her specific essence mantra is: OM MA MA SA LÉ É PHU TÉ YANG NI DU RAM TÉ SOHA

Within the cycle of the MA TRI tantra, Tükjé Jamma is one of the primary buddhas along with Buddha Tönpa Shenrap and the six buddhas who tame and liberate the six kinds of beings migrating within cyclic existence.

Brief Description of the benefits of practicing Tukjé Jamma: Poverty of oneself and others is removed, and you will attain great resources and treasures. You will have stainless ethics and moral discipline, and all faults will fall way. Unsuitable things as well as suffering and misery will naturally be pacified. Every good quality will be amassed. You will accomplish your wishes for the roots of virtue and you will dwell on the ground of bliss and virtue. You will never be harmed when challenged by others of great power. Your complexion will be bright and radiant. Your knowledge to explain what is learned increases. Immeasurable compassion will be born in your mind-stream and you will have the ability to help other sentient beings. Whatever you want to do will be accomplished through mindfulness.

Topgyi Jamma, the Powerful Loving Mother, or Nangsi Kündrakma, Mother who is Renowned Throughout All Phenomenal Existence. From the scripture for the empowerment:

If it falls in the South, it is designated as Nangsi Kundrakma who has the dynamic energy of spontaneous accomplishment. “Oh fortunate child of the lineage, your yidam deity is the great mother Nangsi Kundrakma. She is blue, with one face and four arms. Her two right hands hold a hook and a banner, and her two left hands hold an astrological chart and as utpal flower. She is seated on a powerful elephant throne. Because she was your yidam deity in the past, she is your yidam deity now. Because she is your yidam deity now, don’t forget to meditate on her as your yidam deity. Because she will be your yidam deity in the future, she will compassionately protect you. Therefore, continually proclaim her essence mantra.”

  • Direction of the Mandala: South, The Jewel Buddha Family, Seated on a Powerful Elephant Throne
  • Appearance: Blue like a Sapphire
  • Hand Objects: She has four hands. R: a Military-style Banner and a Hook of Compassion, L: an Utpal Flower and an Astrological Chart
  • Five Wisdoms-Five Poisons: She embodies All-accomplishing Wisdom and Victory over Pride.
  • Five Scriptures: She is the source of the Gé Bum, The Hundred Thousand Verses on Virtue.
  • Organ: Kidneys
  • Seed Syllable and Mantra: Depending upon the source text, she can arise from either seed syllable NI or RI. Her specific essence mantra is: OM MA MA DI RO CHÖ CHÖ SA LÉ É HA HI YANG DÉ SOHA

Brief Description of the benefits of practicing Topgyi Jamma: Afflictive emotions and enemies will be overpowered with your majestic brilliance. Opponents will abandon or settle their opposition. You will perfect the ten powers within yourself. Your lifespan, vitality, and charismatic power will flourish. You will attain children, wealth and riches. You won’t have any destruction coming from the eight classes of gods and spirits such as illness, negativity, poison, and so on. You will be able to withstand all infectious diseases. You will become a king of healing and medicine. Without exception, the accumulation of virtues will increase. You will be able to tame the demon army of the afflictive emotions. You will thoroughly stop rebirth into the impure lower realms. Positive qualities and virtues will become inexhaustible treasures. 

Jamma Prayer Flag

Prayer flag of The Great Mother Sherap Jamma

“I prostrate to the Supreme Mother of the buddhas of the three times, a completely pure unsurpassed enlightened one, the actually manifest and perfected Buddha Jamma Chenmo!

Hri! Within a completely pure, self-manifested realm, just by paying homage and offering this supplication to the enlightened state of Yumchen Tukjé Jamma may we have victory over the eight fears!

OM MA WA MA DÉ MA HI MO HA É MA SA HA NI RI DZA HO BAM HUNG MA YÉ RU PA YÉ TA DU DU SOHA

Five Bodies, Eight Protector Goddesses, and groups of sixteen, thirty-two, and fifty manifestations, goddesses who tame birth, aging, and death, together with the buddhas and sempa [Sanskrit: bodhisattvas] of great loving kindness, please bestow protection from the eight fears of enemies, curses, infertility, the lu [Sanskrit: nagas], faults, a decreased lifespan or vitality, and harm from planetary causes! Please bestow glory and riches! Support perfect buddhahood! By expressing this king of all praises, may we have enlightenment within the space of the essence of the Great Mother Sherap Jamma, the Great Bliss Bönku, free from elaboration!

Whatever pure virtue that has been done through the three doors, we dedicate for the benefit of all the sentient beings of the three realms. Having purified every defilement and cumulative activity of the three poisons, may we quickly attain the perfect buddhahood of the three bodies!

OM MA WA MA DÉ MA HI MO HA É MA SA HA NI RI DZA HO BAM HUNG MA YÉ RU PA YÉ TA DU DU SOHA

Translation of the Jamma Prayer Flag

“A OM HUNG I and all the other sentient beings who are equal to the sky, in order to progress along the stages of the path of liberation and attain supreme enlightenment, we supplicate with an intense, single-pointed faith and longing to the unsurpassed five wisdom bodies of Jamma and to her retinue of 108 outer and inner manifestations. Incinerate the two obscurations and karmic potentialities with wisdom fire! Manifest the vital essence of an ocean of attainments within the three secret places! Manifestly increase the thousand lights of the four kinds of enlightened activity!  Bless us with the attainment of the fruit of the five bodies!”

Excerpt from Prayer of Supplication within The Daily Practice of Künsel Jamma Chenmo
Sa tsa of Künsal Jamma Chenmo

“It is necessary even when sitting, think of Jamma. Even when sleeping, concentrate on Jamma. Even when eating, it is a feast offering to Jamma. And when moving about, move about within the state of Jamma. Apply these key points to the four kinds of activities. Practicing the deity without being separate from one another is the highest yoga of Jamma.”

Excerpt from The Daily Practice of Künsel Jamma Chenmo

*This is the essence mantra for Künsel Jamma Chenmo. There are other essence mantras that include the syllables for the five wisdom manifestations and the four protectors specifically.

**Mantras are according to the text compiled by H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizen Lungtok Tempa Nyima Rinpoche

To hear the chanting of 108 of Sherap Jamma’s heart mantra by Geshe Yongdong Losar, follow this link: https://sherabchammaling.com/teachings/videos/

The Jamma Nying Tik, The Heartdrop of Jamma is a practice that was given as an aural transmission to the 22nd Menri Trizin Kündun Sonam Lodrö directly from Sherap Lo Pelma. This practice is commonly recited each day especially by Bönpos living in the village of Dhorpatan, Nepal. According to this text, reading the practice once has the same benefit as reading the entire collection of Kangyur scriptures. This text has been translated and published in English, Spanish, and French and can be ordered here: https://www.lulu.com/search?page=1&q=jamma+nying+&pageSize=10&adult_audience_rating=00

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Annual Retreat of the Completely Pure Lotus Deities: Ritual of the Namdak Péma Long Yang

Deities of the Namdak Pema Long Yang

Every year at Menri Monastery on the 22nd-29th lunar days of the 7th lunar month, there is the retreat of the Namdak Péma Long Yang, The Vast Expanse of the Completely Pure Lotus Deities. In 2024, these dates correspond with September 22nd-Oct 1st. This practice clears away the suffering and misery of sentient beings and purifies all defilements and wrongdoing.

This ritual cycle is part of the Outer Mother Tantra and is traditionally practiced within the Shen tradition, the system followed by Menri Monastery. The Tantra of Vast Expanse of the Completely Pure Lotus was a terma, or hidden treasure text, rediscovered by the tertön Shenchen Luga. (For more information about Shenchen Luga, see previous article: https://ravencypresswood.com/2017/04/23/lord-of-the-teachings-shenchen-luga/ ) The 15th Menri Trizin Khenchen Yungdrung Tsultrim also wrote a practice text entitled, A Bouquet of Utpala, Practice of the Completely Pure Lotus Mother.

The principal deity of this practice is the Enlightened Mother Satrik Érsang. She is golden and has a turquoise crown ornament on her head. She sits upon a lotus seat above a throne of intertwined, energetic lions. She is adorned with the thirteen peaceful ornaments. Her right hand holds a golden vase of healing nectar and her left hand holds a clear, magical mirror.

Surrounding her in every direction and pervading all of space are the completely pure lotus deities who are her emanations and her assistants who work for the benefit of clearing away the suffering and misery of all sentient beings.

Pages of the handwritten Elegant Practice of the Completely Pure Lotus Mother and Her Spiritual Heirs

“I, and the limitless other sentient beings, pay homage and go for refuge to the multitude of enlightened ones. By offering this divine palace that is filled with precious treasure, please be seated and remain inseparable from the objects of support. Please pay heed to us!

Come here with the power of your great love and pacify the actions of the poison of anger and hatred!

Come here with your great compassion and seize the six causes for cyclic existence! From a state of compassion for the six kinds of migrating beings, bring those causes to ruin!

Come here with your great wisdom and clear away the darkness of mental dullness!

Come here with your great openness and destroy the prison of jealousy!

Come here with your great peacefulness and destroy the mountain of pride from the top!

Come here with your great generosity and pacify the raging fire of desire and need!

Come here with your great joyful diligence and remove the apathy of sentient beings within cyclic existence!

Come here with your great patience and pacify the enemy of the afflictive emotions!

Come here with your great concentration and pacify suffering due to change for sentient beings!

Come here with your great, skillful methods and loosen the tethers of misconceptions!

Come here with your great discipline and ethical behavior and tame the afflictive emotions of sentient beings that are difficult to tame!

Through your great prayers of aspiration, may I and all the limitless sentient beings obtain the unsurpassable fruit!”

Excerpt from The Victorious Enlightened Activity of the Completely Pure Lotus Mother
Mandala of the Namdak Pema Long Yang

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Special Day for Healing Waters Practice

His Eminence Menri Yongdzin Pönlop Yangtön Thrinley Nyima Rinpoche gives blessed water for cleansing obscurations and bestowing blessings to the school children of the Tapriza School in Dolpo, Nepal.

The 5th lunar day of the 7th month each year is a powerful day for receiving blessed water or for practicing with water for cleansing or healing. In 2024, this lunar date corresponds with September 8th. Healing from blessed water or other types of medicine taken on this day will continue to have great power for seven days.

It is a widespread belief shared among many religious traditions that particular bodies of water can bestow purification, healing, eternal youth, or special knowledge. Within the Yungdrung Bön religious tradition, there are many rituals to imbue water with the blessings and power of the enlightened ones in order to wash away negativities and provide healing and protection. This kind of water and its associated ritual cleansing is known as trü [Tibetan: khrus]. One of the most widespread is Nampar Jompa’s Healing Waters Mantra practice. The enlightened deity Nampar Jompa has a wrathful appearance with a light-blue body and distinctly having serpents as ornaments on his arms, legs, waist, and hair.

“I, myself, as the deity Nampar Jompa hold in my right hand a vessel filled with elixir.  In my left hand, I hold a mirror which removes all illness and injury.  Having washed with this healing water, I clearly imagine that any remaining contamination is washed away because of this medicine.”  

— From The Practice of the Washing Rite within Nampar Jompa’s Healing Waters Mantra

At the conclusion of the practice after the practitioner has transformed into the deity Nampar Jompa, empowered the water with mantra, and then washed with the water, the practice text concludes with a notation emphasizing the power of the practice.

“Thus, through this supplication prayer of the washing rite, having purified all traces of previous illness and negative external influences, just like the overflow of water from a crystal vessel, imagine that all negativity and illness leave from the tips of the fingers and toes, the nostrils and the secret place.

There is no place what-so-ever for the creation of even the smallest thing to arise.  Not even a single atom remains that needs to be purified!”

Sigyal Drakngak Walmo, the enlightened deity who protects from contagious disease through empowered water

During the beginning time of the global pandemic of Covid 19, many Yungdrung Bön lamas advised their disciples to engage with the mantra and practice of Sigyal Drakngak who is one of the most wrathful manifestations of Sipé Gyalmo that specifically protects from infectious disease through the use of empowered water. Translation of this text, The Heartdrop of Si Gyal that is All-pervasive and Clears Away Afflictive Emotions and Illness, has been published in both English and French. Because this is a restricted text, it is available only for those who have received transmission for the practice. (If you have received transmission and would like to order a copy of the translation, email Raven Cypress Wood at the email address listed below with the name of the teacher and the year that you received transmission and you will be given the ordering information.)

“OM!

This water of nectar has the nature of wisdom and medicine.

May all negative karma, afflictive emotions and discursive thoughts of migrating beings be washed away!

May all illness, external negative forces, karmic potentialities, and contaminations be purified!

Like a deity of medicine, may you have health and happiness!”

— From The Heartdrop of Si Gyal that is All-pervasive and Clears Away Afflictive Emotions and Illness

In addition to the practices specifically using water as a method of purification, healing, and empowerment, there are many practices and mantra that can be used to transform water from an ordinary substance to one that is imbued with extraordinary qualities. For example, the great mantra of the Yungdrung Bön tradition has extraordinary power and is not considered secret. It can be recited aloud and also shared. This mantra can be recited one hundred times or more, without the interruption of ordinary speech, then the breath is blown onto clean water used for drinking or cleansing. According to the chapter within the MA TRI tantra entitled The Thirty-two Benefits of the Sufficient Recitation of the Precious Lamp:

“Anyone affected by contaminated energy, latent karmic potentialities, misfortune, or defilements, having recited this MA TRI mantra into pure, clean water, if they ritually wash for seven mornings, even karmic defilements will be purified.  Removing defilements is a benefit of this precious lamp.”

— From The Thirty-two Benefits of the Recitation Practice of the Precious Lamp

The Heartdrop of Jamma is an aural transmission from Khandro Sherap Lo Pélma who is a manifestation of Sherap Jamma and a deity who is specifically practiced to develop the intellect. In The Heartdrop of Jamma, the practitioner uses the power of the mantric syllables to transform each aspect of their body into one of Jamma’s countless manifestations. This text is commonly recited by Yungdrung Bön families after the final meal of the day. This texts lists many benefits of its recitation. This includes the use of water.

“If you recite the mantra to good quality water mixed with powdered, medicinal incense containing blessed medicine and the six excellent substances, and then cleanse with that water, all illness and sickness caused by negative forces will be pacified and all defilements and contaminations will be purified.” 

— From The Heartdrop of Jamma

The English, Spanish, and French translations of The Heartdrop of Jamma have been published and are available to anyone through this link: https://www.lulu.com/search?page=1&q=raven+cypress+wood&pageSize=10&adult_audience_rating=00

In addition to the above-mentioned practices, the Yungdrung Bön tradition includes the daily practice of washing with empowered water that is used each morning most commonly by those with ordination or genyen vows. However, this practice is open to anyone. One of the commonly used prayers for this practice is The Cleansing Rite Supplication. The English translation of this prayer has been made freely available to the worldwide sangha and can be downloaded from the Publications page of this website.

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The Great Mantra of Yungdrung Bön

The MA TRI mantra carved on a cliff face

In the Yungdrung Bön religious tradition, there are countless mantra for various purposes such as to protect from dangers and diseases, to cure various physical ailments, to attain various kinds of magical power, to increase prosperity and extend the lifespan, and to develop positive qualities and wisdom. From all of these, there are three primary essence mantra that encapsulate the totality of the Yungdrung Bön religious teachings. These three mantra are known as the SA LÉ Ö, the MA TRI, and the DU TRI SU mantra. Of these three, the MA TRI mantra is known as “The Great Mantra” because it is the distilled essence of all 84,000 teachings of Buddha Tönpa Shenrap Miwoché. The text of the MA TRI tantric cycle is The Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp that Shakes the Depths of Cyclic Existence. It is called “The Sufficient Recitation” because this single mantra is enough for everything. When teaching thirty-two of the specific benefits of the MA TRI mantra, the Buddha began by instructing his retinue in the profundity of the mantra.

“This Precious Lamp, the extracted heart essence of all of those who have gone to bliss, is the fundamental essence of the entire collection of sacred teachings. It is the quintessential essence of all Bön. It is the ultimate of all recitations. It is the highest of all views. It is the innermost essence of  all meditations. It is the fulfillment of all activities. It is the most superior of all results. It is the heart elixir of the principal teachings. It is a key to the collection of sacred teachings. It is the lamp of the collection of oral transmissions. It is the refined gold of the quintessential instructions. It opens the door of intellectual confusion. It is a lamp that clears away the darkness of ignorance.”

From Thirty-two Benefits of The Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp

Many mantra are secret and are not to be shared with the uninitiated or to be recited loud enough to be heard beyond one’s own shoulder. The MA TRI mantra is different. It can be shared, and read, and heard by anyone. In fact, in Thirty-two Benefits of The Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp, one of the benefits specified by the Buddha involves generating compassion and then reciting the mantra aloud for all sentient beings to hear.

“As for this Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp, if the clear and pure melodic recitation of the mantra from someone who has cultivated the mind of enlightenment enters the ear of any sentient beings living on mountains, cliffs, or water, or any wild animals, birds, or any kind of human or animal; whoever hears it will attain liberation. This is the precious lamp of sufficient hearing.”

In full, the MA TRI mantra is OM MA TRI MU YÉ SA LÉ DU. Each syllable of the mantra has a unique power and potency to manifest enlightened energy and form. Although the text gives an association for each of the syllables, this is not the same as a definition or a translated meaning. Mantric syllables are beyond the limitations and restrictions of intellectual concepts and words. However, in order to support trust in disciples who may doubt that the syllables are meaningful, Buddha Tönpa Shenrap gave the following teaching.

Buddha Tönpa Shenrap and Buddha Tükjé Jamma in union according to The Precious Lamp

“OM is the seed syllable of the external space of the victorious Father. MA is the expanse of phenomenal space of the Mother’s womb. TRI is the enlightened body of Mucho Demdruk who protects from the suffering of the hot and cold hells. MU is the enlightened body of Sangwa Ngangring who removes the hunger and thirst of the destitute hungry ghosts. YÉ is the enlightened body of Tisang Rangzhi who dispels the darkness of stupidity and muteness of the animals. SA is the enlightened body of lord Drajin Pungpa་who fulfills the desires of the constantly busy and impoverished humans. LÉ is the enlightened body of Chegyal Parti ་who destroys the prison of the quarrelsome demi-gods. DU is the enlightened body of Yéshen Tsukpü who arouses diligence in the gods, the lazy ones who are destined to fall.” 

The Father is Buddha Tönpa Shenrap and the Mother is Tükjé Jamma. They manifest as the union of wisdom and skillful means. The other six seed syllables are associated with the six subduing shen who are manifestations of the Buddha Tönpa Shenrap who tame the negative emotions with their associated antidote. Buddha Mucho Demdruk tames the hatred of the beings in the hot and cold hell realms with great loving kindness. Buddha Sangwa Nangring tames the greed and desire of the hungry ghosts with great generosity. Buddha Tisang Rangzhi tames the stupidity and dull mindedness of animals with great wisdom. Buddha Drajin Pungpa tames the jealousy of humans with great openness. Buddha Chegyal Parti tames the pride of the demi-gods with great peacefulness. And Buddha Yéshen Tsukpü tames the laziness of the gods with great joyful diligence.

The syllable OM according to The Precious Lamp

Each of the mantric syllables has an associated color. The five-part syllable OM consists of five colors. The remaining syllables each have a single color that corresponds to the color of the associated deity. The syllable MA is coral red. The syllable TRI is often depicted as purple. The text states that the deity’s body color is red-blue to show his mastery over fire and water. The syllable MU is red. the syllable YÉ is blue. The syllable SA is golden or yellow. The syllable LÉ is pale blue. And the syllable DU is white.

In addition to the recitation, it is beneficial to place the MA TRI mantra over doorways. In that way, whoever passes underneath receives blessing. The MA TRI amulet has the quality of liberation through touching. Thus, it is of great benefit to wear. At the time of death, this amulet is placed at the crown of the head to support realization or at least a positive rebirth. The blessed medicine of the MA TRI cycle is one of the most commonly performed and distributed to the faithful.

Two examples of the MA TRI amulet that liberates through touching

The lineage of the MA TRI tantra passed from Buddha Tönpa Shenrap to his son Tobu Bumsé who accepted responsibility for all of the teachings related to tantra. After the Buddha showed the truth of impermanence and passed into parinirvana, Mucho Demdruk was appointed his representative. He entrusted the MA TRI tantra of The Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp that Shakes the Depths of Cyclic Existence to the scholar from Tazik, Mutsa Trahé. He then divided the teachings into condensed, medium-length, and expanded versions. These he passed on to the three shen who taught among the gods, the humans, and the lu [Sanskrit: naga]. Milu Samlek was the shen who taught among the humans and while he was practicing near Mt. Tisé [MT. Kailash], he widely spread the expansive version of the MA TRI tantra. Drenpa Namkha traveled to the area to take part in a meeting of those translating the Yungdrung Bön texts into their own native languages. During that time, Mutsa Trahé presented him with the MA TRI scripture.

“Listen, Mu Shen Drenpa Namkha. Listen! This cycle of Bön is especially exalted. It is comparable to the heart inside the chest. There is nothing more profound than this Bön that purifies defilements. Great translator, this is a profound gift from me. I am entrusting it to you, fortunate shenpo. Hold this Bön in your mind. With the aspiration that it will spread until the end of time, please accept this.” 

Having accepted the responsibility to hold the lineage, Drenpa Namkha transmitted the teachings to his consort Khandro Öden Barma and spread them throughout Zhang Zhung and Tibet. However, some time later there was conflict between the two countries and the Tibetan king had proclaimed his intention to destroy Yungdrung Bön. Many scriptures were taken out of the country, some were hidden as treasures in the hopes that it would be sage to bring them out in the future, and others were destroyed. As for the MA TRI tantra, Drenpa Namkha memorized the extensive version and held it in his mind. The medium-length version was hidden as a treasure in Mount Gangkar Sha Mé in the far western area of Ngari, Tibet. Then, the practice of Yungdrung Bön declined for many years.

Then, in the Metal Rat year of 1360 CE in Khyungpo, Tibet, Tülku Loden Nyingpo was born. [He is also known as Namkha Rinchen.] He would become a renowned treasure revealer who brought many of the scriptures out of hiding. Among these scriptures was The Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp that Shakes the Depths of Cyclic Existence. During an extraordinary visionary encounter, he was invited to a pure realm where he received the transmissions of the tantra from both Drenpa Namkha and Khandro Öden Barma. He recounts this encounter in great detail in the chapter entitled The Way the Empowerments, Oral Transmissions, and Quintessential Instructions were Received. Khandro Öden Barma instructs him to keep it to himself until he feels it appropriate to begin sharing the teachings. He went on to be a wandering yogi with many disciples to whom he passed on the transmission. It has continued uninterrupted to the present day.

Buddha Tisang Rangzhi who teaches wisdom to the animals

Again and again, Buddha Tönpa Shenrap reminded his disciples that this MA TRI mantra and its practice would be especially beneficial for future generations because of its simplicity. This was stressed by Drenpa Namkha during Tülku Loden Nyingpo’s visionary encounter with him.

“Son, Listen! Fortunate son of the lineage, it is greatly amazing that you have come here to this place. Now, it has become the end of time and The Age of Conflict has arisen. In the future, men and women will not have the opportunity to achieve the attainment of single-pointedness. Illness, famine, and weapons will be widespread during this age. Rulers will have no morality and the rule of law will disappear. Ministers will be senseless and have extensive vanity. Great meditators will only pretend to follow the key points. Yogis will spend time debating over grammar and logic. Those that practice the Great Vehicle will fall into the extremes of externalism or nihilism and be stuck on the path. Masters and disciples will not be in harmony and their association will only last a short time. Spiritual friends will regret their vows, will have hidden intentions, and will speak carelessly. Acts of virtue and acts of wrongdoing will become mixed up. These are the characteristics of the Age of Conflict. For that time and circumstance, this inner essence of The Precious Lamp is recommended for the benefit of migrating sentient beings.”

From The Way the Empowerment, Transmission, and Quintessential Instructions were Received

Even though there is slight variation in the various compilations of The Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp that Shakes the Depths of Cyclic Existence, in general it consists of eight primary sections. This is why it is also referred to as The Eight-branched Sutra. Additionally, there are chapters chapters added by both Drenpa Namkha and Tülku Loden Nyingpo. The list below gives an idea of the chapters within the Volume.

  • Teaching and Ritual that Purifies Obscurations and Clears Away the Darkness: Preliminary, Main, and Concluding Practices
  • Instructions Regarding the Essence of the Precious Lamp
  • Instructions on the View
  • Instructions on Meditation
  • Instructions on Conduct
  • Instructions on Result
  • Instructions on the Mantra, The Inner Heartdrop
  • The Quintessential Instructions
  • Continuously Engaging in Recitation and Accomplishment
  • Instructions on the Ritual for the Worldly Palgön
  • Praise of the Teacher by the Retinue 
  • The Lamp that Illuminates Actual Realization 
  • The Way the Empowerment, Transmission, and Quintessential Instructions were Received
  • Maintaining a Continual Practice
  • The Refined Gold of Quintessential Instructions
  • Thirty-two Benefits of The Precious Lamp
  • Death Ransom Torma that Reverses Negativity
  • The Mirror of Accomplishment
  • Pointing Out The Precious Lamp
  • Wisdom Powa that is like a Meteor
  • Drawing the Protective Amulet
  • Drawing the Protection and Longevity Amulet
  • Drawing the Amulet the Reverses Negativity

“OM MA TRI MU YÉ SA LÉ DU Listen, fortunate ones! The long flowing river of birth is the first. The thunderous waterway of old age is the second. The raging whirlpool of illness is the third. Death that has no escape is the fourth.These four are the demon rivers from which there is no escape. Noble ones who want to cross over those rivers, proclaim the melody of the MA TRI MU YÉ!

OM MA TRI MU YÉ SA LÉ DU Listen, fortunate ones! The churning ocean of cyclic existence is the first. The profoundly deep lake of suffering and misery is the second. The raging whirlpool of unhappiness is the third. Falling into the depths from which there is no escape is the fourth. These four lakes are the four prisons of suffering and misery. Noble Ones who want to be free from those prisons, proclaim the melody of the MA TRI MU YÉ!

OM MA TRI MU YÉ SA LÉ DU Listen, fortunate ones! The legions of mental dullness are the first. The strong coat of armor of pride is the second. The trained army of envy is the third. The sharp weapons of anger and hatred are the fourth. These are the four frightening enemies that come from behind. Noble Ones who want to escape from those enemies, proclaim the melody of the MA TRI MU YÉ!

OM MA TRI MU YÉ SA LÉ DU Listen, fortunate ones! Watching, teaching, and mastering mundane diversions is the first. Laziness and procrastination is the second. Exhausting the lifespan with the fire of distraction is the third. Mistakenly going astray because of illusory appearances is the fourth. These four are hindrances on the path to liberation. Noble Ones who want to be free of those hindrances, proclaim the melody of the MA TRI MU YÉ!”

Inspirational Verses Regarding the MA TRI written by Tülku Loden Nyingpo included in the forthcoming book on The Sufficient Recitation that is a Precious Lamp by Raven Cypress Wood

All translations from the Tibetan by Raven Cypress Wood

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The Time to Practice the Deity Tséwang Rikdzin 

Mural of Lama Tséwang Rikdzin inside Yanggön Thongdrol Phüntsok Ling temple in Dolpo, Nepal

On the 10th lunar day of the Horse month (3rd lunar month) of the Fire Horse year of 914 BCE, the Great Lama Drenpa Namkha was born in the kingdom of Zhang Zhung. (For more information about Drenpa Namkha, see previous article: https://ravencypresswood.com/2016/05/06/practice-of-the-great-lama-drenpa-namkha/ ) On the 10th lunar day of the Monkey month (5th lunar month) in the Water Monkey year of 888 BCE in the kingdom of Zhang Zhung, his twin sons Tséwang Rikdzin and Pema Tongdrol were born. For this reason, the 10th lunar day of each month is designated for the practice of the Great Lama Drenpa Namkha and his two sons, Tséwang Rikdzin and Pema Tongdrol. For the remainder of 2024, the 10th lunar day of each month coincides with July 16th, August 14th, September 13th, October 12th, November 11th, and December 10th. On these days, it is especially auspicious to recite prayers, supplicate, and make offerings to Lama Drenpa Namkha, Tséwang Rikdzin, and/or Pema Tongdrol.

Bhutanese mural of Zhang Zhung Drenpa Namkha

The mother of the twins was the daughter of an Indian Brahmin, Khandro Öden Barma. It is said that Tséwang Rikdzin, named Yungdrung Dönsal at birth, was firstborn from the right side of her womb and had a peaceful, light-colored complexion with the mark of a yungdrung in the center of his forehead. While Pema Tongdrol was born from the left side of her womb and had a more wrathful, dark-colored complexion. As youths, Tséwang Rikdzin had a naturally peaceful disposition and his brother was more active and excitable. However, although they appeared like ordinary human beings to those with impure vision, both brothers were emanations of realized beings. Pema Tongdrol was an emanation of the yogi Takla Mébar and Tséwang Rikdzin was an emanation of Sangwa Düpa. Some years later, Öden Barma wanted to return to her birthplace in India and Drenpa Namkha wanted to stay in Zhang Zhung. Thus, due to various circumstances, the parents separated for a time. Pema Tongdrol went with his mother to India and Tséwang Rikdzin stayed with his father is Zhang Zhung. 

Tséwang Rikdzin’s hagiography in four volumes was discovered as a treasure text by Sang Ngak Lingpa. It details how, like his father, Tséwang Rikdzin remembered the teachings and practices of his previous 500 lifetimes. He attracted his own disciples, traveled to many sacred places in order to teach, meditate, and subdue harmful spirits. He practiced with six different khandro who had devoted their lives to religious practice and who attained their own realization and became lineage holders of Tséwang Rikdzin’s teachings. Although he could appear in any form necessary to help sentient beings, he is described as primarily having six different manifestations corresponding to the six different mountain retreats where he practiced and performed miracles. Because he transcended cyclic existence, purified all obscurations, and perfected all positive qualities, he is practiced as a yidam deity.

Tséwang Rikdzin depiction according to the Tséwang Jarima

The Tséwang Jarima, Tséwang’s Cycle of Teachings Given at Bird Mountain, is a cycle of practices primarily focused on longevity, restoring and supporting the vital life force, and practices to pacify negative spirits endangering the health or lifespan. This cycle was established during his time practicing near Mt. Tisé (a.k.a Mt. Kailash.) At that time, a nyulé demoness and other evil-minded nyulé spirits were attacking the fertility of individuals and also cutting the lifespan of young children. Moved by compassion, Khandro Tukjé Kündrol appeared to Tséwang Rikdzin and transmitted a method for both protecting and restoring the lifespan. This practice for longevity and healing is widely practiced to this day. (For more about the longevity practice of Tséwang Rikdzin, see Indestructible ) 

“How wonderful! In the supreme place upon the summit of Jari, the great Tséwang Rikdzin was surrounded by a retinue of thousands of male and female rikdzin.  At that time, the great mother, Tukjé Kündrol, in order to benefit sentient beings who had an exhausted or damaged lifespan, she spoke this secret long life mantra which is the source of all wish-fulfilling things.” -Extract from the Tséwang Jarima

Tséwang Rikdzin siting atop a white elephant in the longevity temple on Mt. Emei in China. Photo credit: Khedup Gyatso

The Tséwang Böd Yulma, Tséwang’s Cycle of Teachings Given in Tibet, is a tantric text whose view is closely aligned with that of dzogchen. The main body of the scripture is divided into the Ten Scrolls that provide instructions for various practices such as extracting the essence, transference of consciousness, and pointing out naked awareness. This text was found as a treasure text by the tertön Bön Zhig Yungdrung Lingpa. The volume also contains additional and complimentary practices such as Tséwang’s Precious Mala of Beneficial Aspiration Prayers. (The English translation of this prayer is available for download on the Publications page of this website.) The final act of outer religious practice performed by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen before he entered his tent and attained the rainbow body at the time of his passing into nirvana, was to perform the feast offering of the Tséwang Böd Yulma.

The Tséwang Gya Garma, Tséwang’s Cycle of Teachings Given in India, includes works focused on fire ritual, fumigation offering, healing from various maladies, tsa lung, and practices for the khandros Tukjé Kündrol and Kalpa Zangmo, among others.

Some texts record Lama Tséwang Rikdzin’s lifespan as being 800 years, others record it as 500 years. However, there is no record of his passing away in any text. In fact, during the time of the emanation of Drenpa Namkha of Tibet who lived the 8th century, Tséwang Rikdzin actually attended his dzogchen teachings. He was then known as Ritropa, The Hermit. For this reason, it is said that he gained power over life and death in order to continue working for the vast benefit of sentient beings.

In the Tséwang Gya Garma, Tséwang Rikdzin is depicted with a body that is dark-red and with a consort. His hand objects differ according to specific practices.

Supplication Prayer to Tséwang Rikdzin

How wonderful!

Supreme son of The Great Lama, Tséwang, you are a protector of migrating beings who activated the flow of karma and met with the Yungdrung Bön. First, you trained in the study and contemplation of inner and outer Bön. Then, meditating upon the ultimate meaning, you reached the level of a rikdzin. You traveled to sacred places high and low throughout the world such as India, China, Zhang Zhung, Tazik, Orgyen, Drusha, Gilgit, Ménak, and so on. Together with the khandro, you reveled in the ordinary and supreme accomplishments. You attained power over the mind and brought the four elements under your control. You bound with oaths the male and female non-human gods and demons. You greatly increased vast benefit for migrating beings. At this current time, bestow accomplishment upon your faithful children!

“I will proclaim my speech and show my face to those with a karmic connection. Those followers in the 500 years of the dark time, listening steadfastly without distraction and supplicate! I will quickly catch you with my iron hook of compassion!”

If the time has come to keep you promise, reveal your face and bestow the profound oral instructions!

“Because of doubtlessly practicing recitation practice to me, I will certainly reveal my face.”

If the time has come to keep you promise, reveal your face and teach the profound oral instructions!

“Without miserliness, make offerings to me and I will rain down a shower of both the ordinary and the supreme attainments.”

If the time has come to keep you promise, bestow the attainments without exception!

“Without biased nonattachment, wander the mountain hermitages and I will point out the infallible path of liberation.”

If the time has come to keep you promise, show the correct and supreme path of liberation!

“Act effortlessly without hypocritical nonattachment and I will act as a special companion providing supportive circumstances.”

If the time has come to keep you promise, act as my companion and establish the supreme path of the Great Vehicle!

“By extracting the essence of earth and stones and eating that as food, I will bestow inexhaustible great, precious treasure.”

If the time has come to keep you promise, completely supply all necessities!

“Without being covered by the stain of wrongdoing, practice the path of skillful means of tsa lung and meditation and I will ignite the blissful heat of meditative stability.”

If the time has come to keep you promise, provide completely perfect supportive circumstances!

“I am deathless, with an indestructible lifespan. During the 500 years of the dark time, I will send forth a multitude of emanations.”

If the time has come to keep your promise, please come as a multitude of supreme holders of the doctrine!

All translations from the Tibetan by Raven Cypress Wood

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