Report October 2022
This month we have published three new translations, all part of the Takhyung Barwa cycle or The Blazing Wrathful Guru, Hayagrīva and Garuḍa. We have also added a new Takhyung Barwa page to our website, which presents a brief account of the history of the cycle and a complete overview of all the available texts. Finally, we were very happy to receive a new endorsement for the Longchen Nyingtik Project, this time from Tulku Rigdzin Pema.
The Takhyung Barwa practice was revealed by the great tertön Jigme Lingpa at the age of 65 in 1795 and is especially powerful for subjugating negative forces and overcoming diseases and was . When Jigme Lingpa himself had fallen ill and there were dangers to his life, the blessing of this practice removed all obstacles.
Our first text is the root terma of the Takhyung Barwa cycle, The Blazing Wrathful Guru, Hayagrīva and Garuḍa, from the Heart-Essence of the Vast Expanse, revealed by Jigme Lingpa himself. Secondly, we translated a short text by Dola Jigme Kalzang, one of the main students of the First Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Özer and the one who recognized Patrul Rinpoche as a tulku. The text is a Concise Averting Ritual for the Practice of Hayagrīva and Garuḍa. Finally we added a supplementary lineage prayer by Adzom Gyalse Gyurme Dorje, Victorious in the Battle with the Four Demons: A Prayer to the Lineage of the Wrathful Guru, Hayagrīva and Garuḍa.
Jigme Lingpa’s anniversary also fell in the past month, and so we want to recommend the biography written by Getse Mahāpaṇḍita Gyurme Tsewang Chokdrup at the start of his Precise Discernment of Dharmas: A Catalogue of the Complete Collected Works of the Omniscient King of Dharma, Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa, one of our longest translations to date, and the Prayer Recalling the Life and Liberation of the Great Perfection Adept Rangjung Dorje (‘Naturally Arisen Vajra’), Jigme Lingpa, written by Jigme Lingpa himself.
“མཉམ་རྗེས་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཆགས་སྡང་རེ་དོགས་ཀྱིས། །
In meditation and post-meditation alike, you are unperturbed
ཁྱོད་སེམས་འཁྲུགས་པ་མ་ཡིན་དབང་པོ་ལ། །
By attachment or aversion, hope or fear.
སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་མགོན་བཞུགས་པའི་བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱིས། །
Through your blessing, Avalokiteśvara in the flesh,
འགྲོ་དོན་འཁོར་བ་དོང་སྤྲུགས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། །
You benefit beings and dredge the depths of saṃsāra—to you I pray!”
