The Green Tārā in the Tradition of the Great Paṇchen Lama of Kashmir

The Green Tārā in the Tradition of the Great Paṇchen Lama of Kashmir is Green in Color, according to the tradition of the great Kashmiri paṇḍitaŚākyaśrī, is the supreme giver with her right hand and holding an utpala in her left hand. She sits with her right leg extended in the half-vajra posture. By relying on this venerable lady, one will accomplish any of the four activities and receive swift blessings and powers. In particular, since the time of their generation of bodhicitta, the teacher, the Lord of Sages, and Avalokiteśvara have had a profound connection, and so they have a special link of blessings and auspicious connection. Not only that, but they also have the special power to protect from poverty. The venerable lady Tārā was given to the great Kashmiri paṇḍitaŚākyaśrī and was propagated in Tibet by TropuLotsāwa.

The Great Compassionate Eye opener

He is white in color, with one face and four arms. His first two hands make the gesture of anointing the eyes, and the lower two hold a vase filled with nectar and a mirror. He is adorned with silks and jewels and sits in the posture of standing. As it says in the instructions Tantra, if one properly relies on this deity, faults such as eye diseases and blurred vision will be pacified, and finally the benefit of accomplishing the wisdom eye will arise.

The goddess Mārīcī

The goddess Mārīcī is yellow with three faces and six arms. Her right face is white and Her left is black Varaha, wrathful, scowling, sideways gazing, her tongue curled. She has three eyes and three arms. Of his six arms, the right ones hold an arrow, vajra, needle, and the left one a bowstring, and a branch of the aśoka tree together with flowers. She wears a blue upper garment and a blue lower garment. She is adorned with ornaments such as a crown of various jewels. His hair is adorned with a stūpa. She is seated on a chariot wheel with eight golden-coloured pigs. Her body is adorned with a garland of aśoka flowers. She is surrounded by a retinue of twenty-four goddesses such as Arcimat. All outer and inner obstructing spirits are pacified, epidemics are pacified, and death is averted. Her lifespan is prolonged and her sins are purified. The benefits worship her are inconceivable such as pacifying harm from external obstacles, thieves, wild animals, and so forth.

The Glorious Main Vajra Yamantaka

The glorious single Vajra Yamataka is black in color. He has one face with two arms. He has a very wrathful face of a buffalo and two sharp horns. He has three eyes and while opening his mouth he bares four fangs. His tawny hair is coiled upward. He stands with right leg bent and left leg extended. He bares his fangs and looks wrathful. His eyebrows and eyes blaze like the time of destruction. His tawny hair is coiled upward. His head is adorned with five dry skulls. His head is adorned with a garland of fifty fresh skulls. The right hand holds a curved knife and the left hand holds a skull filled with blood. The black snake is the sacrificial ladle and a human bone wheel. He is adorned with bone ornaments such as earrings. He has a large belly and a naked body. His red private part is turned upward. He sits in the middle of a blazing fire with the mother bending her right leg and stretching her left leg.

The Glorious Coemergent Cakrasaṃvara

In the Garlog Tradition, the Blue Glorious Heruka is blue in color, with one face, two hands, and three eyes, and baring his fangs. His black hair is tied in a crown, and at the tip of the crown there is a wish-fulfilling jewel. On his cheek there is a crossed vajra, and on his left is a crescent moon. He is ornamented with five dry skulls. He has a garland of fifty fresh skulls, and he has the nine moods of dance and is adorned with the six mudra gestures. He wears a tiger-skin skirt. He stands with his right leg extended and tramples Kālachakra, and with his left leg bent he tramples Bhairava. His two hands hold a vajra and a bell. On his lap is the mother, red Vajrayoginī who has one face, two arms, three eyes, bared fangs, and loose hair. She is adorned with five dry skulls on her head and a necklace of ten dry skulls. She is adorned with the five-mudra gesture. She holds a curved knife with a threatening gesture in her right hand and a skull filled with blood in her left hand, embracing the father and offering it to his mouth, with the right leg bent and the left leg extended.

The glorious Atisha

The great founder of the lamrim teachings, the glorious Atisha was born in Bengal in eastern India in the tenth century. He was the son of the king of Sahor. At the age of ten, he studied the outer and inner sciences of grammar and logic. He renounced the kingdom and at the age of twenty-nine, he took ordination from Lama Dharmarakshita in the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya. He studied with thirty-four gurus, including Serlingpa, and became learned in the three collections of scriptures, gaining the renowned title of great pandit. He was enthroned as the abbot of Nalanda, Vikramashila, and Odantapuri. In Serling and other places, he mastered all the instructions on bodhicitta. In accordance with a prophecy made by the venerable Tara, he arrived in and for about fifteen years purified the teachings by extensively teaching and listening to the stages of the path.He was invited to Tibet by Lha Lama Jangchub Ö, a descendant of the Tibetan kings, and, in accordance with a prophecy from the goddessTārā. After arriving in Tibet in 1040, he carried out marvellous purifications of the teachings and extensive teachingfor about fifteen years and studied the stages of the path. Many holy beings endowed with both scholarship and accomplishment appeared in the land of China and Tibet, such as the three—Khutönkktön, and Dromtön—and NaktsoLotsāwaTsultrim Gyalwa. He wrote more than two hundredeses and sections of teachings, including the Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, some sixty of which were also translated into Tibetan. He passed away in Nyethang, Tibet, at the age of seventy-three.

The forty-nine-deity glorious Vajrabhaivara

The 49 Glorious Vajrabhaivara is as follows: In the centre, there is the Principal deity, the Glorious Great Vajrabhaivara in dark blue colour, with nine faces, thirty-four arms, and sixteen legs, standing in the posture of the right leg drawn in and the left leg extended. His skull is wet and dry, and he wears the ornaments of bones. His hand implements and the gesture and others are similar to the those of the Solitary Hero Glorious Vajrabhaivara. The retinue are as follows: In the main and intermediate directions, such as the east, the deities of the directions are Vajra Head, Vajra Hand, Vajra Intestine, Vajra Leg, Vajra Skull, Skull Grove, Charnel Ground Cloth, and Person stabbed with a pointed stake. On the eastern layer are the vajra hooked knife, the one-pointed weapon, the wooden pestle, the razor knife, the Kanaya, the iron hook, the buffalo, the ox. On the southern layer are the axe, the arrow, the club, the Khatanggha, the wheel, the lasso, the pig and the donkey. On the western layer, the vajra, the damaru, the shield, the bow, the bell, the wind cloth, the camel, and the dog. On the northern layer are the threatening mudra, the victory banner with three ribbons, the ox skin, the hammer, the spear, the sheep, the stove and the fox. The four doors or the deities of the doors are the vulture, the owl, the crow and the parrot. The gods of the four intermediate directions or the outer intermediate directions are the garuda, the hawk, the heath cock, and the Shedma bird. All these forty eight are dark blue in color, with the faces of angry buffaloes, with one face and two arms. Their right hands hold the implements corresponding to their names, and their left hands hold skulls at their hearts. They have three eyes, their tawny hair blazes upwards, they have a crown of five dry human heads and a necklace of fifty fresh heads. Except for the four consorts, the male organs of all stand upright. They sit on human corpses and buffalo seats, with their right legs drawn in and left ones raised. They are naked and adorned with human bones.

The Five-Deity Avalokiteśvara and Wish-Fulfilling Gem according to the Kadam tradition of Atiśa.

Avalokiteshvara is red in color. His first two hands hold a red lotus stem and open it. His second two hands hold a rosary and a gandha. A deer skin covers his left breast. He is adorned with all ornaments and sits with legs in vajra posture. Around him are Vajra Lasso holding a lasso and a jewel, Vajraratnī holds a jewel and a bell, Ekajaṭī holds a lotus and a rosary, and Bhṛkuṭī holds a crossed vajra and a gandha. All four are red in color, adorned with all kinds of jewelry, and seated in vajra posture. The noble Avalokiteshvara taught it to the peerless Atisha, who taught it to Gonpawa, who spread it in Tibet, and it is a special deity of compassion that increases power or magnetizes if one serves it.

The Five Deities of Ghaṇṭāpāda’s Cakrasaṃvara

The five deities of Ghaṇṭāpāda’s Cakrasaṃvara are blue with four faces and twelve hands. The main face is black, the left face is green, the back face is red, and the right face is yellow. Each face has three eyes. They each have a vajra garland at their foreheads. Of their twelve hands, the first two hold a vajra and bell and embrace Vajravārāhī. The next two hold an ox skin. The remaining four right hands hold a ḍamaru, battle-axe, curved knife, and trident. The remaining four left hands hold a khaṭvāṅga, skull, lasso, and Brahmā’s head. They are adorned with garlands of fresh and dried skulls. Their right legs are extended and trample black Bhairava, while their left legs are bent and trample red Kālarātri. They wear tiger-skin skirts and are smeared with great ashes. Vajravārāhī embraces him around the neck, holding a knife and skull-cup, and he stands in the midst of a fire. The retinue includes five principal and attendant deities: black Ḍākinī, green Lāmā, red Kālarātri, and yellow Rūpiṇī.

The Final Supreme Secret

The Final Supreme Secret is a primary deity of the mandala of the mother tantra Sun of Compassion. During the first spread of the teachings in Tibet, in the ancient times of Shangshung, he practised for one-hundred-fifty human years and actualized the supreme deity. A brief description of the basis celestial palace: the central face is deep blue, the two right faces are white and blue, and the two left faces are green and yellow. His hair, the color of green leaves is braided into fine locks and reaches halfway down his body. In his eight right hands are the skulls of eight gods and the heart-blood of eight tirthikas. In his eight left hands are the skulls of the eight planet [deities], and he holds the essence of dormancy as a pourer. His eight legs stand upon a seat of eight black maras. His body is ornamented by the six bone ornaments and the eight garments of a wrathful one. His consort Hail, Powerful Red Light-Lake is ornamented by the six bone ornaments and a bears a shoulder-belt rosary of fifty wet skulls dripping blood. Her right hand holds a moon and chopped-up flayed human skin in the manner of distributing to an assembly. Her left hands hold a sun and a skull-cup with brain-nectar that she offers to the father. She stands entwined with and bringing delight to the father. The assembly of mandala deities, when extensive, are generated as three-hundred-sixty-four, when middling, fourteen, and when condensed, five with one ornament.