Vajrakīla Series

• A Short Practice for Averting Obstacles through Vajrakīla by Fifth Dalai Lama

This four-line apotropaic prayer is addressed to the deities of the Vajrakīla maṇḍala, requesting that they avert all forms of obstacle and harm.

• Meeting the Buddha Face to Face: A Pith Instruction on Realizing the Fortress, Ravine, and View of the Practice of Vajrakīla by Guru Chökyi Wangchuk

This pith instruction on how to accomplish Vajrakīla (or Vajrakīlaya) was given by Guru Padmasambhava to his closest disciple Khandro Yeshé Tsogyal. Following the Atiyoga approach, the text comments on the oft-quoted verses of the Vajrakīla Root Tantra Fragment (Tōh. 439). This and a short protector offering, also preserved in the Treasury of Revelations (Rinchen Terdzö), are the only two surviving texts from Guru Chöwang’s Vajrakīla revelation.

• Offering Clouds of Samantabhadra: Confession and Fulfilment by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok

Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok composed this confession and fulfilment (bskang bshags) practice for the 'Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) while in Namdrolling Monastery in India in 1990.

• Bestowing the Splendour of All That is Desirable: Fire Offering for the 'Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok

This fire offering for the 'Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle arose spontaneously to Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok in 1990 and was written down by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

• Inventory: The Perfectly Clear Mirror from the Razor of the Innermost Essence by Tertön Sogyal

This inventory (thems yig) provides key details of the Razor of the Innermost Essence (yang snying spu gri), including a list of all texts in the cycle, and important information for the tertön concerning its revelation.

• The Swift Infusion of Blessings: A Lineage Prayer for the Single Mind Kīla Heart-Practice, Part of the 'Neck Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle by Fourteenth Dalai Lama

His Holiness composed this lineage prayer for the Vajrakīla practice of Purba Gulkhukma, a revelation of Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok, on 23 July 1990.

• Vajrakīla Prayer: A Rain of Accomplishments by Gyarong Khandro

A lineage prayer for Tsogyal's Whispered Transmission of Kīla (mtsho rgyal snyan brgyud phur pa), which was revealed by Gyarong Khandro, together with Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and Khandro Tsering Chödrön, from the Zadü (gza' bdud) cave at Khyungdrak Dorjei Yangdzong in the water snake year (1953), and then transmitted by Jamyang Khyentse to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in the wood sheep year (1955).

• The Rain of Enlightened Activity: A Prayer to the Gurus of the Lineage of the Vital Essence of the Aural Transmission Kīla by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

This brief prayer to the lineage of The Vital Essence of the Activity Kīla of Aural Transmission (snyan brgyud phrin las phur pa’i gnad tig) was composed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and supplemented by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

• A Vajrakīla Lineage Prayer by Tertön Sogyal

Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa wrote this prayer to the lineage of Vajrakīla, his yidam deity, during a break while on retreat.

• Vajrakīla Tsok Prayer from Sangtik Korsum by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa

This prayer, to be recited when accumulating tsok offerings on a large scale, is extracted from 'The Essential Drop of Enlightened Activity: A Tsok Offering for the Single Mudrā Form of Vajrakumāra', which is itself part from the Sangtik Korsum cycle, a joint revelation of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa and Jamgön Kongtrul.

• The Eight-Branch Offering from the Gyüluk Phurba by Jigme Lingpa

This practice of eight branches (prostration, taking refuge, offering real and imagined gifts, confession, rejoicing, generating bodhicitta, offering the body, and dedication of merit) derive from the Tantra System Vajrakīla (rgyud lugs phur pa), which is part of the Nyingma Kama collection, but appear in other texts, especially empowerment rites.

• The Roaring Laughter of Vajra Wrath: In Praise of Glorious Vajrakumāra by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

Jamyang Khyentse composed these verses in praise of Vajrakīla while engaged in intensive meditation upon the deity,

• Invocation of the Vidyādhara Gurus compiled by Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche

Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche took the Etrom Lower Activities Manual from the Yangsang Tukkyi Purchik as a basis and added verses from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s Nyakluk Phurba and a Rigdzin Kulwa from the Sakya tradition. The text was compiled during the Netik Phurba Drupchen in Lerab Ling, 2018.

• The Falling Rain of Blessings: A Prayer of Inspiration by Tertön Sogyal

For this prayer from the Vajrakīla cycle known as Yang Zab Nyingpo (Deepest Heart-Essence), the practitioner assumes the form of the deity Vajrakīla and prays to Guru Padmākara and consort, who are visualized above the head.

• The Summoning of Blessings Which Brings Them Swift and Fast by Tertön Sogyal

From the Vajrakīla cycle known as Yang Zab Nyingpo (Deepest Heart-Essence), this is the descent of blessings (byin 'bebs).

• Entrusting Activity by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok

A reminder to the Kīla guardians of their past pledges and a request that they carry out activity on the practitioner's behalf. The text was composed in Yangleshö, Nepal, and transcribed by Khenpo Namdrol.

• Offering to the Dharma Guardians of the 'Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok

A short torma offering to the protectors of the 'Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle composed by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok and transcribed by Khenpo Sodargye.

• Daily Practice of Vajrakīla by Apang Tertön

This short daily sādhana of Vajrakīla concentrates on the ultimate nature of the deity, which is one's very own awareness, beyond imagery and attributes.

• The Essential Daily Practice of Vajrakīla by Dudjom Rinpoche

A popular practice of Vajrakīla in standard form, consisting of refuge and bodhicitta, visualization, mantra recitation, dissolution, dedication of merit, and prayer for auspiciousness.

• Daily Practice of Vajrakīla by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

This simple sādhana of Vajrakīla, requested by Sogyal Rinpoche, contains, in the words of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's colophon, 'the concentrated blessings of kama and terma'.

• The Accomplishment of Supreme Enlightened Activity: A Recitation Manual for The Vajrakīla Root Tantra Section by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

Jamyang Khyentse wrote this recitation guide (bklags thabs) for the Vajrakīla Root Tantra Section (phur pa rtsa dum) at the request of his master of ceremonies, Lama Chokden.

• Inlaid Jewels: Addenda to the 'Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok

The concluding stages of the Purba Gulkhukma sādhana: offering, praise, receiving the attainments, dissolution, dedication of merit and words of auspiciousness.

• The Single Mind Kīla Practice, Part of the 'Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok

This is the main text of the Purba Gulkhukma cycle of Vajrakīla practice, which Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok revealed at the Asura cave in Yangleshö, Nepal. It includes the empowerment, sādhana and gaṇacakra offering.

• The Wisdom Mind Practice of One Kīla by Tertön Sogyal

This brief Vajrakīla sādhana, complete with tsok offering, was revealed as a terma at Katok Monastery.

• A Section of the Vajrakīla Root Tantra from the Words of the Buddha

The Vajrakīla Root Tantra Section (or Fragment) (Tōh. 439), the remains of a much larger Vajrakīla tantra, was discovered and translated into Tibetan by Sakya Paṇḍita (1182–1251). According to the text's colophon, it was Guru Padmasambhava who brought the original to Tibet. The tantra contains several famous verses that appear in most Vajrakīla sādhanas and is the only Vajrakīla text included within the Kangyur. The edition translated here includes a colophon by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and benedictory verse by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.

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