Vajrapani, Hayagriva and the King Garuda

Guru Yoga / Gaden Lhagyama

INVOCATIONGA-DEN HLA-JI NGON-JYI THUG-KA NEYRAP-KAR SHO-SAR PUNG-DEE CHU-DZIN TSERCHO-KYI GYEL-PO KUN-CHEN LOZANG DRAGSEY-DANG CHE-PA NE-DIR SHEG SU SOLFrom the heart of the Lord of the Gaden devas (Maitreya Buddha)emerges a brilliant white cloud, like a great mass of fresh yoghurt.Atop sits Tsongkhapa all knowing, King of Dharma;we request your coming to this place along with your great disciples.

REQUESTING TO STAYDUN-JYI NAM-KHAR SING-TI PEE-DEE TENGJE-TSUN LA-MA JYEH-PI DZUM-KAR CHYENDAG-LO DE-PE SO-NAM SHING-CHOG TUTAN-PA JYEH-SHIR KAL-DJAR JUG-SU SOLMy Lord Guru is seated before me upon a lion-throne, lotus and moon cushion.His body is white and he smiles blissfully.Please remain many eons and serve as the great merit field for the growth of my mind’s faith,and for the increase of Lord Buddha’s teachings.

PROSTRATION AND PRAISESHE-JYEH CHON-KUN JAL-WEY LO-DO THUGKAL-ZANG NA-WEY JYIN-JUR LIK-SHEY SUNGDRAG-PI PEL-JYI HLAM-MER DZEY-PI KUTHONG-THO DRAN PI DON DHAN LA-CHAG TSAL

His omniscient wisdom-mind encompasses all that is existent.His voice is a profound teaching, which ornaments the ear of the fortunate pupil.His body’s beautiful radiance evokes wondrous admiration.To Lama Tsongkhapa whom merely viewing, hearing or contemplating earns one great merit, I make prostration.

OFFERINGYIH-WONG TCHO-YON NA-TSOG ME-TOG DANGDRI-JEM DUG-PO NANG-SAL DRID-CHAB SOGNGO-SHAM YIH TUL TCHO-TIN GYA-TSO DISO-NAM SHING-CHOG CHE-LA CHO-PA BULI present to you, great field of merit, Tsongkhapa,beautiful offerings, water, a display of flowers, fragrant incense,butter-lamps, perfumes and more both physical and mental offerings,vast as the clouds and wide as the ocean.

CONFESSIONDAG-GI TO-MEY DU-NEH SAG-PA YILU-NGAG YIH-KYI DIG-PA CHI-JYI DANGCHEY-PA DOM-PA SUM-JI MI-TUN SHONYING-NEH JO-PA TRAH-PO SO-SOR SHAGThe unwholesome actions of body, speech and mind,which I have accumulated over a measureless period,especially actions contrary to the three vows (Vinaya, Bodhisattva, Vajrayana),I regret extremely from the depths of my heart, and I reveal each and every such action.

REJOICINGNIK-MI DU-DIR MANG-THO DRUP-LA TSONCHO-JYED PANG-PI DAL-JOR DON-YO SHYENGON-PO CHEY-KYI LAP-CHEN DZE-PA LADAG-CHAG SAM-PA TAG-PEH YI RANG NGOWe totally rejoice in your magnificent achievements, my Lord,who received numerous teachings and performed the practices

with utmost diligence,who abandoned the eight worldly objectivesand made the most meaningful use of the eighteen opportune conditions during these degenerate times.

REQUEST TO TURN THE WHEEL OF DHARMAJE-TSUN LA-MA DAM-PA CHEY-NAM KYICHO-KU KA-LA CHEN-TI TIN-TIK NEYJI-TAR TSAM-PI DUL-SHIH DZIN-MA LAZAB-JI CHO-KYI CHAR-PA WHAP-TU SOLAll you holy Gurus, unerring in conduct,may you precipitate a rain of realisation of Bodhicitta and Shunyatafrom the clouds of all-knowing compassion which fills the Dharmakaya sky,providing for the field of disciples precisely what is needed.

REQUESTING TO REMAINNAM-DAG WO-SAL YING-LEY JING-PA YIZUNG-JUG KU-LA CHAR-NUB MI-NGA YANGTHA-MAL HNANG-NGOR ZUG-KU RAG-PA NYISEE-THEE BAR-DU MI-NUB TAN-PA SHUGMay the Vajra body of Tsongkhapa created from the purity of clear light,free of the rising and setting of cyclic existencebut visible to the ordinary viewer only in its unsubtle, physical form,stay on unchanging, without waning, until Samsara ends.

DEDICATIONDAG-SOG JIN-NYEH SAG-PA GE-WA DEETAN-DANG DRO-WA KUN-LA GANG-PHAN DANGCHE-PA JE-TSUN LO-ZANG DRAG-PA YITAN-PI NYING-PO RING-DU SAL-SHEH SHOGMay this merit accumulated by myself and others,beneficially serve all sentient beings and the Buddhadharmaand especially may the essential teachings of the unerring

master Tsongkhapa,become clear and enduring.

MIGTSEMA (MANTRA OF JE TSONGKHAPA)This can be recited anytime, anywhere, as many times as possible. It has the benefits of receiving the blessings of Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri and Vajrapani.MIG-MEY TZE-WEY TER-CHEN CHENREZIGDRI-MEY KHYEN-PI WANG-PO JAMPAL YANGDU-PUNG MA-LU JOM-DZEY SANG-WEY DAGGANG-CHEN KE-PEY TSUG-GYEN TSONGKAPALO-SANG TRAG-PEY SHAB-LA SOL-WA DEB(Recite 21x or more, depending on time)Je Tsongkhapa, crown jewel of the holy Masters of the land of snows,You are Avalokiteshvara, great goldmine of Compassion untainted by ego’s delusion.You are Manjushri, great Master of stainless wisdom.You are Vajrapani, great subduer of all the gatherings of demons.At your feet, famed Lobsang Drakpa,I humbly bow and earnestly request that all sentient beings achieve Enlightenment.(Recite 21x or more, depending on time)LAMA TSONGKHAPA SHORT MANTRAOM AH RA BA ZA NA DHI (1 mala, followed by 1 mala recitation of the last syllable “DHI”, under one breath)

DISSOLVING JE RINPOCHE INTO OURSELVESPAL-DAN TSA-WEY LA-MA RINPOCHEDAG-SOG CHI-WOR PE-ME DAN-JUG LAKA-DRIN CHEN-PO GO-NEY JE-ZUNG TEKU-SUNG THUG-KYI NGO-DRUP TSAL-DU SOLDear worthy root Guru, please ascend the lotus seatatop the head of myself and the other beings,and in your great kindness please remain with us.Bestow upon us the blessings of your body, speech and mind.

PAL-DAN TSA-WEY LA-MA RINPOCHEDAG-SOG NYING-KHAR PE-ME DAN-JUG LAKA-DRIN CHEN-PO GO-NEY JE-ZUNG TECHO-DANG THUN-MONG NGO-DRUP TSAL-DU SOLPrecious, noble, root Guru, please occupy the lotus seatwithin our hearts and in your great kindness remain with us.Please grant us your blessings for our temporal successand for the supreme attainment.

PAL-DAN TSA-WEY LA-MA RINPOCHEDAG-SOG NYING-KHAR PE-ME DAN-JUG LAKA-DRIN CHEN-PO GO-NEY JE-ZUNG TEJANG-CHUB NYING-PO BAR-DU TAN-PAR SHUGBeloved, noble, root Guru, please occupy the lotus seatwithin our hearts and in your great kindness remain with us.Please stay on until we achieve the great goal of Enlightenment.

NAMO GURU VAJRAPANAYE

Here is a concise sadhana of Vajrapani with three wrathful aspects.

[Refuge and Generating the Mind of Enlightenment]

I take refuge in the Guru.I take refuge in the BuddhaI take refuge in the Dharma,I take refuge in the Spiritual Assembly.(recite three times)

For the sake of all living beings,I will attain the fully enlightened state of Buddha,For that purpose I will practice the sadhanaVajrapani with three wrathful aspects(recite three times)

[OM SVABHAVA: SARVA DHARMA: SVABAVA SHUDDHO HAM]

Everything becomes empty.Out of emptiness on top of a lotus and sun disc is one’s consciousness in the form of a dark blue syllable HUM which emanates rays of light, fulfilling the two purposes.

Lights gather back and oneself becomes Sri Vajrapani, dark blue in colour, with one face and two arms, the right raising a golden vajra with the five spokes and the left performing the gesture of threatening at the chest.

The yellowish-brown hair is raised up, amidst which is a green head of a horse [Hayagriva] making three neighing sounds.

On the crown of that horse is the King Garuda, with white body, three eyes and a vajra beak. His wings are made of swords, and between the two horns of turquoise is a burning gem.

He holds in his hands the four types of nagas and eats them. Clad with tiger skin garments, he stands amidst a wisdom fire with the right foot bent and the left outstretched.

He is adorned at the crown with a white OM,at the throat with a red AH, and at the heart with a blue HUM.

From the syllable HUM at the heart emanate rays of light, inviting identical wisdom beings.

[Offerings]

OM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA ARGHAM PRATITSA HUM SVAHAOM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA PADYAM PRATITSA HUM SVAHA

OM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA PUSPE PRATITSA HUM SVAHAOM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA DHUPE PRATITSA HUM SVAHAOM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA ALOKE PRATITSA HUM SVAHAOM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA GANDHE PRATITSA HUM SVAHAOM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA NAIVIDYE PRATITSA HUM SVAHAOM VAJRAPANI SAPARIVARA SHABDA PRATITSA HUM SVAHA

[Praises]

I prostrate and offer compliments to the body, speech and mind of the Buddhas of the ten directions, who have taken the form of The Owner of the Secrets, Hayagriva and the King Garuda, Chief among all the wrathful aspects, showing all three as one single nature. Just by remembering you destroys all forms of interferences and evils. Please pacify all interferences and obstacles to the practice of Dharma such as evils, spirits and illnesses that come from above, middle and below, from today until the time of attaining complete enlightenment and grant us all the attainments according to our wishes.

DZA: HUM BAM HO:

The wisdom beings become one with the visualized beings. At one’s heart center on a lotus and sun disc is the syllable HUM surrounded by the mantra ring, which emanate rays of light, purifying all evils, illnesses and defilements of oneself and others. All the blessings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas gather back in the form of light rays and dissolve into the mantra rosary and letter HUM, bringing about an increase in lifespan, merit, and all wholesome qualities related to the verbal and realization teachings of the Buddha.

[Mantra Recitation]

OM VAJRAPANI HAYAGRIVA GARUDA HUM PHET(recite as many times as possible)

[Dedication]By the virtues collected through this practice, May I quickly attain the state of Vajrapani, the Lord of the Secrets, and lead all beings, without exception to the state of Enlightenment.

[Colophon](This concise sadhana of Vajrapani with the three wrathful aspects was written by Bhiksu Dharmabhadra according to the thoughts of the sadhana called Vajra Diamond for his own practice.)