A Sadhana of
Senghe Dongma
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A Sadhana of
Senghe Dongma
the Lion-Face Dakini
Refuge and Bodhichitta
I go for refuge unti l I am enlightened
To the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly. By this practi ce of giving and other perfecti ons,
May I become a buddha in order to benefi t all senti ent beings.
(3x)
Four Immeasurables
May all senti ent beings have happiness and its cause. May all senti ent beings be free of suff ering and its cause. May all senti ent beings be inseparable from sorrowless bliss. May all senti ent beings abide in equanimity, free of bias, both greed and hatred.
Continual Confession
I go for refuge to the Three Jewels. All negati viti es I confess.
I rejoice in all the merits of migrators. I keep in mind enlightenment.
To the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly I go for refuge unti l I am enlightened.
To realize my own and others’ benefi t I shall generate bodhichitt a.
Having produced the thought of supreme bodhi, I shall look aft er all senti ent beings as guests, And practi ce the pleasing, supreme bodhi conduct. For senti ent beings’ sake, may I realize buddhahood.
Self-generation
From the state of empti ness, from EH[arises] a blue-black trian-gular reality source, extensive and deep, surrounded by a violent garland of fl ames. In the middle of the reality source from PAM
[arises] a large lotus and from RAM, a sun upon which [appears], on the heart of a human corpse, a sky-blue HUM, the enti ty of one’s mind.
From that [HUM] light radiates, annihilati ng all enemies, hinder-ers, wrong teachhinder-ers, and black magic curses, and burning up all evil tokens, omens, and harms.
The light again collects, absorbing into the HUM. From its com-plete transformati on, [I arise] as Lion-face Wisdom Dakini, dark blue, [my] huge body pervading the three realms. [My] limbs and body parts are robust and strong, and [my] lion face [is] extremely wrathful with gaping mouth, curled up tongue, bared fangs, and poisonous breath billowing like fog. With three round red eyes and [my] red-yellow facial hair, eyebrows, and top mane blaze like fi re, some hanging down.
[My] right hand brandishes a vajra curved knife in space while [my] left holds a skullcup of blood at the heart. In the crook of
[my] elbow is a khatvanga, from which hangs a damaru and a three-pointed banner. [I stand in] the half vajra dancing posture with left leg extended and wear a ti ger-skinned lower garment, and an upper garment of joined human and elephant skins. [My] head is adorned by dry skulls. [I wear] snake and bone ornaments and a necklace of human heads, and [am] adorned by drops of human blood, lines of grease, and lumps of ashes.
[I am standing] in the midst of blazing lights of transcendental wisdom fi re. Surrounding [me] are an assem bly of trillions of da-kinis, all of whom hold various weapons in their right hands and like the princi pal [hold skullcups] in the left .
From the lion mouth resounds the roar of the wrathful mantra. At [my] forehead is OM, at [my] throat, AH, at [my] heart, HUM. The
HUM radiates light invoking Lion-face Dakini together with her reti nue from the dakini palace of Uddiyana, saying PHEM PHEM
and radiati ng the blazing mudra.
JAH HUM BAM HO
Offerings
Cleanse the off erings with:
OM VAJRA AMRITA KUNDALI HANA HANA HUM PHAT Purify them into voidness with:
OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM
All becomes voidness. Out of the void [appears] KAM, whence skullcups. In them, from HUM, [appear] off er ing substances, whose nature is voidness, whose aspect is as the disti nct off ering
substances, and whose functi on is to give special uncontaminat-ed bliss as objects of the six senses.
Visualize OM AH HUM sinking into each skullcup (kapala). OM ARGHAM AH HUM
OM PADYAM AH HUM
OM VAJRA PUSHPE AH HUM OM VAJRA DHUPE AH HUM OM VAJRA ALOKE AH HUM OM VAJRA GANDHE AH HUM OM VAJRA NAIVEDYA AH HUM OM VAJRA SHABDA AH HUM Then off er:
OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI SAPARIVARA BHYA ARGHAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
Then:
PADYAM to SHABDA
Inner offering
OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI SAPARIVARA BHYA OM AH HUM
Praise
Glorious vajra dakini, Ruler of the dakinis,
Who found fi ve wisdoms and three kayas: Homage to the refuge of migrators!
Empowerment
Again light radiates invoking the empowering deiti es. VAJRA SAMAJAH
They empower saying:
OM VAJRI BHAVA ABHIKHINJA HUM
The holy body is fi lled and stains purifi ed. From the excess nectar the crown is adorned by Vairochana.
Mantra Recitation
AH KA SA MA RA / TSA SHA DA RA / SA MA RA YA PHAT Recite [the mantra] wrathfully together with visualizati on. Then [recite] the 100-syllable mantra. At the end visualize your right thumb as a golden ax and your left thumb as a silver chopping-block. As you clap at the end of each line, all hinderers and so on are cut to pieces.
O you assembly of blazing wrathful ladies (1x)
Pulverize into dust the bodies and speech (1x)
Of all enemies and hinderers (1x)
And release their consciousness into the sphere of Dharma. (3x)
Offering the torma
(Last session only.)
Arrange a torma ornamented with meat and blood. Aft er bless-ing the inner off erbless-ing [as before] (OM VAJRA AMRITA...), sprin-kle the torma with it to dispel hindrances. Then purify them into voidness (OM SVABHAVA...).
From the state of voidness, from AH comes a vast and expansive skullcup within which from the lett ers OM AH HUM arises the tor-ma, a great ocean of nectar marked by the three lett ers OM AH HUM. Light [radiates] from [the syllables and] hooks the exalted wisdom nectars, which absorb into the three sylla bles. They melt into a great inexhausti ble ocean of nectar.
OM AH HUM HA HO HRIH (3x)
Invoke the exalted wisdom beings as above. Then off er the torma as follows:
To the principal dakini:
OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI IDAM BALIMTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI SVAHA (7x)
To the reti nue:
OM AH KARO MU KHAM SARVA DHARMA NAM ADYANUTPAN NA TVATA NAMA SARVA TATHAGATA AVALOKITE OM
SAMBHARA SAMBHARA HUM (7x)
Offerings
OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI SAPARIVARA BHYA ARGHAM …
to … SHABDA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI SAPARIVARA BHYA OM AH HUM
Praise
O bhagavati wisdom dakini,
Your lion body subdues the vicious:
Homage and praise before your furious face. Holding a drigu [in] your right hand,
Please severe the life nerve of enemies and hinderers without excepti on.
Female dispeller of disharmonious interrupti ons, Homage and praise to the powerful wrathful one. Holding a skullcup of blood [in] your left hand,
Enjoy the heart blood of the four maras of the ten evil spheres. Eliminate completely the conti nuity of samsara’s blood.
Homage and praise to the liberator from curses.
You liberate from the three poisons holding a khatvanga; Your frightf ul body has a skull garland.
Two legs centered upon lotus, moon, and sun. Homage and praise to you amidst a blaze of fi re. The reality source purifi ed of poisons –
Dark blue, triangular, blazing fi res –
Is the fully complete three doors of liberati on.
Homage and praise to the wrathful acti vator arisen from EH. By accomplishing the approximati on, doing off erings and praise, May interrupti ons of the stages and paths be pacifi ed,
May life and wealth increase, and
May I quickly att ain the knower of as pects, buddhahood.
Conclusion
Saying:
the deiti es depart.
At the end dedicate the merit within the state of non-referenti al awareness of the body of the deity (e.g., aft er absorbing into the heart HUM and then into voidness).
Dedication
Then make dedicati on prayers and auspicious verses as much as possible.
During the session break keep yourself inseparable from the di-vine pride of the deity.
Colophon:
Translated from the Tibetan by Ven. Thubten Jampa and Ven. Thubten Tsultrim (George Churinoff ). Reformatt ed by Murray Wright, FPMT Central Offi ce, August 1993. Additi onal editi ng by Ven. Constance Miller, FPMT Educati on Services, Au-gust 1999. All phrases that appear within brackets [ ] are editorial additi ons for clarity.
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