"Vajrayoginī is inarguably the supreme deity of the Tantric pantheon. No male Buddha, including her divine consort, Heruka Cakrasaṃvara, approaches her in metaphysical or practical import." --Miranda Shaw "Once an old lady appeared before Nāropa and asked if he had truly mastered all the words of Buddha's teachings. Nāropa confidently answered, "yes." But she laughed… Continue reading “A SYMPHONY FOR THE BLISS QUEEN”: PRAISING AND REVERING VAJRAVĀRĀHĪ: Exploring the female and yogic layperson roots and one-to-one transmission of Vajrayogini as well as a new contemporary musical rendition of the “Eight Verses of Praise To Vajravarahi”
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SCARLET SIREN WITH THE SQUEALING SOW’S HEAD: Who is Vajravārāhi? Name, symbols and meaning of the Highest Yoga Tantra’s “ferociously blissful” red female deity with sow’s head
"Mother of all the Victors, endowed with all supreme aspects, The 'face' of Vajravārāhi, symbolising the signs and meaning With the certain knowing from seeing self-awareness itself May the primordial wisdom vajra descend here now!"--tr. Adele Tomlin (2020) རྒྱལ་ཀུན་སྐྱེད་ཡུམ་རྣམ་ཀུན་མཆོག་ལྡན་པའི། བརྡ་དོན་རྟགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོའི་ཞལ། རང་རིག་ཉིད་དུ་མཐོང་བའི་ངེས་ཤེས་ཀྱིས། རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྟེན་འདིར་དབབ་དུ་གསོལ། A Vajravārāhi/Dorje Phagmo artwork gift from a living incarnation of Dorje Phagmo in… Continue reading SCARLET SIREN WITH THE SQUEALING SOW’S HEAD: Who is Vajravārāhi? Name, symbols and meaning of the Highest Yoga Tantra’s “ferociously blissful” red female deity with sow’s head
SEEING VAJRAVĀRĀHI IN KĀLACAKRA (BHUTAN KĀLACAKRA 2025: PART I): The first mass Kālacakra empowerment in Bhutan by HH Je Khenpo, the Vajravārāhi/Abhayākaragupta tradition of the Vajrāvalī (Dorje Threngwa, Vajra Garland) Kālacakra, and spontaneous meeting, blessings and “priceless” auspicious gifts from Dorje Phagmo Khandro tulku in Bhutan 2025
"Mother of all the Victors, endowed with all supreme aspects,The 'face' of Vajravārāhi, symbolising the signs and meaningWith the certain knowing from seeing self-awareness itselfMay the primordial wisdom vajra descend here now!" (Tr. Adele Tomlin (2020)) རྒྱལ་ཀུན་སྐྱེད་ཡུམ་རྣམ་ཀུན་མཆོག་ལྡན་པའི། བརྡ་དོན་རྟགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོའི་ཞལ།རང་རིག་ཉིད་དུ་མཐོང་བའི་ངེས་ཤེས་ཀྱིས། རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྟེན་འདིར་དབབ་དུ་གསོལ། "Because he had recited the mantra of Vajrayogini in his former life, in this life Vajrayogini… Continue reading SEEING VAJRAVĀRĀHI IN KĀLACAKRA (BHUTAN KĀLACAKRA 2025: PART I): The first mass Kālacakra empowerment in Bhutan by HH Je Khenpo, the Vajravārāhi/Abhayākaragupta tradition of the Vajrāvalī (Dorje Threngwa, Vajra Garland) Kālacakra, and spontaneous meeting, blessings and “priceless” auspicious gifts from Dorje Phagmo Khandro tulku in Bhutan 2025
Part VI Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo: ‘Gathering of all the Ḍākinī’s Secrets’ (Khandro Sangdu), the empowerment ‘Gathering of Vārāhīs’ and the ‘Lady Demoness’ female terton, Jomo Menmo
For Ḍākinī' day today, my sixth short instalment on the Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo transmissions in January 2020 given by HE Schechen Rabjam Rinpoche, is about the 'Gathering of Vārāhīs' empowerment (given on the 11th day of the event) from a Tibetan text revealed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (and a female treasure-revealer, Jomo Menmo) called the… Continue reading Part VI Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo: ‘Gathering of all the Ḍākinī’s Secrets’ (Khandro Sangdu), the empowerment ‘Gathering of Vārāhīs’ and the ‘Lady Demoness’ female terton, Jomo Menmo