Garchen Rinpoche - Hevajra Empowerment and 4 Dharmas of Gampopa
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Many thanks everyone for this most interesting discussion.
I'm still wondering if anyone has a link or a source for the Hevajra sadhana linked to this empowerment?
Thanks.
I'm still wondering if anyone has a link or a source for the Hevajra sadhana linked to this empowerment?
Thanks.
Re: Garchen Rinpoche - Hevajra Empowerment and 4 Dharmas of Gampopa
Thashi delek to you all!YesheDronmar wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:05 am Many thanks everyone for this most interesting discussion.
I'm still wondering if anyone has a link or a source for the Hevajra sadhana linked to this empowerment?
Thanks.
It will be a truly wonderful occasion indeed. Furthermore, I also would like to know that is there a sadhana?
Many thanks.
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The Zabmo Nangdon has been translated. #2 on your list--it is called the Profound Inner Principles and it is not merely a commentary on Naro Chudruk, but a sort of manual of subtle body mapping, astrology, and the inner and outer relationships stressed in Kalacakra Tantra as well as other tantras.Schrödinger’s Yidam wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:42 amYeah, I found it. It was from the notes that came out of the last retreat, so these notes are from a couple of years ago. From those notes, the 3 books on tantra recommended as background info were:Malcolm wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:22 amI’ll ask her. I see her a couple of times a month via zoom. She’s a very nice person.Schrödinger’s Yidam wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:17 am
When HHK came to the women's retreat he gave them a list of things to study. One was the Hevajra Tantra, which supposedly Elizabeth Callahan was working on. However I just checked the Tsadra Foundation blurb on Callahan and there's no mention of it being in the works.
So maybe it isn't true.
1. Hevajra 2 books (tak nyi): tablam (generation stage). Tsadra Foundation has sponsored Hevajra translation by Elizabeth Callahan.
2. Profound inner meaning: (completion stage) for Naro Chödrak.
3. Gyu Lama (s/a Uttaratantrashastra): (Mahamudra) use JKLT’s commentary for tantric point of view.
I believe the list originally came from HHK.
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So Malcolm, once you talk to E.C. and get an update let me know if it’s happening or not. If not then I’ll get one of the other translations.
Also, any knowledge about a translation for book #2?
Thanks.
Gyu Lama's commentary by Kongtrul is also translated. As for Hevajra, Karmapa specifically recommended the Kongtrul commentary, which I am not sure is being translated at the moment.
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: Garchen Rinpoche - Hevajra Empowerment and 4 Dharmas of Gampopa
A sadhana of the Coemergent Hevajra by Rigdzen Chokyi Dragpa is translated.
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Eric Fry-Miller translated it. You can find him online. He has a thing called Buddha Visions.
It’s a nice sadhana.
It’s a nice sadhana.
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This empowerment was for the 9 deity mandala?
The profound path of the master.
-- Virūpa, Vajra Lines
-- Virūpa, Vajra Lines
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The 9-Deity mandala was not mentioned, as least not that I remember. The image of the deity that was put up on the screen several times matches the image on the Buddhist Visions Coemergent Sadhana.
Two mantras were given during the empowerment and I'll check those with Buddhist Visions to make sure.
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Ah, I see. Maybe the Father and Mother mantras(?) I'm unfamiliar with Hevajra as practiced in Kagyu.YesheDronmar wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:20 amThe 9-Deity mandala was not mentioned, as least not that I remember. The image of the deity that was put up on the screen several times matches the image on the Buddhist Visions Coemergent Sadhana.
Two mantras were given during the empowerment and I'll check those with Buddhist Visions to make sure.
Sarva Mangalam
The profound path of the master.
-- Virūpa, Vajra Lines
-- Virūpa, Vajra Lines
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This was all discussed by HHK while he was in the women’s retreat. I wasn’t there, and didn’t hear about it until a good while after they came out of retreat. So my information is second hand and slightly stale.Cone wrote:As for Hevajra, Karmapa specifically recommended the Kongtrul commentary, which I am not sure is being translated at the moment.
But my understanding is that HHK wanted people better educated before going into retreat. Those 3 texts were the suggestions for studying Tantra before retreat. At least that’s my understanding. Could be off.
He had some Sutrayana recommendations too, like Shantideva’s 9th chapter, etc. It wasn’t all Tantricly oriented. But it definitely not the old Kagyu, “You don’t need to do any studying. Just do the practices, get realization, and then you’ll be able to write that kind of text.” (Maybe his exposure to Gelug approach is showing.)
But like I said, I wasn’t there, and these notes seem a little off.
1.The problem isn’t ‘ignorance’. The problem is the mind you have right now. (H.H. Karmapa XVII @NYC 2/4/18)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
Re: Garchen Rinpoche - Hevajra Empowerment and 4 Dharmas of Gampopa
"Sahaja" here simply means "natural," i.e. one face, two arms, and two legs.
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That makes sense.
I think some people like to translate sahaja as “coemergent”. Which makes some sense from the parts of the Tibetan lhan cig tu skye ba. But I can’t translate, just poke at words.
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Yes, they do, but they miss the meaning. Lhan cig skyes is just a translation of sahaja, and sahaja, in this context, does not mean connate, it means simply "natural" in contrast with the three faced, six arm form, or the eight faced, sixteen arm form, etc.Cinnabar wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:24 pmThat makes sense.
I think some people like to translate sahaja as “coemergent”. Which makes some sense from the parts of the Tibetan lhan cig tu skye ba. But I can’t translate, just poke at words.
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In some sense, isn’t “natural” symbolic of “connote”?Malcolm wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:27 pmYes, they do, but they miss the meaning. Lhan cig skyes is just a translation of sahaja, and sahaja, in this context, does not mean connate, it means simply "natural" in contrast with the three faced, six arm form, or the eight faced, sixteen arm form, etc.
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In this case it just means a deity that is one face two arms, like a natural human, it doesn’t mean anything more than that.Cinnabar wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:21 amIn some sense, isn’t “natural” symbolic of “connote”?