Hello Friends,
do you know something about the four armed Mahakala?
I saw him on a thangka in sitting posture surrounded by many
dakinis, so he looked quite different to the two armed/six armed
Mahakalas i know so far.
It's difficult to get infos on that, probably because the wang isn't given freely...
Chris
Mahakala Chagshipa
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Re: Mahakala Chagshipa
Now commonly known as protector of the Chakrasamvara teachings, Kagyu and Karmapas but there's also Nyingmapa kama and terma and are secondary guardians in Dzogchen.
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འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།
ཨཱོཾ་མ་ཏྲི་མུ་ཡེ་སལེ་འདུ།།
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།
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Re: Mahakala Chagshipa
There are many, many forms of Mahakala.
I'm guessing the one you are looking at is the 'basic' Kagyu form.
The four arms relate to the four tantric karmas-- pacifying, enriching,
magnetizing and destroying. I think they do a general recitation, but the
more detailed practice is reserved for drupdra.
I'm guessing the one you are looking at is the 'basic' Kagyu form.
The four arms relate to the four tantric karmas-- pacifying, enriching,
magnetizing and destroying. I think they do a general recitation, but the
more detailed practice is reserved for drupdra.
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Re: Mahakala Chagshipa
There is a torma offering and recitation, pretty similar to the short Chagdrupa "Tor Du" if you know that one, for ChagZhipa that is done daily, in Kamtsang, when one is doing Cakrasamvara practice......and Ngodrup is correct, this is normally done in retreat.
There are, as noted, many, many other forms of Mahakala, including other 4 armed forms.
There are, as noted, many, many other forms of Mahakala, including other 4 armed forms.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
Re: Mahakala Chagshipa
Here you go:
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"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)