About Dharma Texts and Scriptures

Dharma texts represent the Buddha’s immaculate speech, which can bring us all the way to enlightenment. When we venerate a Dharma text or scripture, we create the causes to achieve a Buddha’s enlightened speech complete with its 60 qualities. It also creates the causes for us to realise the inner and subtle meanings of the teachings, which are the foundation of our attainments.

Dharma texts also help calm the environment and the people living there. Buddha himself stated that wherever there is a holy Dharma text, protective deities will be present to protect the scripture and its surroundings.

For this reason, Dharma texts are a necessary item on all Tibetan Buddhist altars, and are traditionally placed on the left side of the shrine for daily veneration.

About Vajrayogini

A representation of complete Buddhahood in female form, Vajrayogini embodies the qualities of the Buddhas of the ten directions and three times. Her tantra is the most supreme among all the Highest Yoga Tantras. As our lives today are ruled by extreme lust, greed, anger and hatred, she uses these very forces to attract us and then transforms them into liberating energies.

Vajrayogini is particularly suitable for the people of our time because her practice helps to purify and transform desire, which is the current and most pervasive energy within samsara. In fact, she manifested specifically to pacify our self-created inner obstacles that are provoked by the outer environment we live in. Therefore, her blessings are very potent and powerful for this day and age.

Further Reading

• Getting closer to Vajrayogini
• How Lama Tsongkhapa transforms to Vajrayogini
• Bodhgaya & Vajrayogini
• Starting on Vajra Yogini NOW! by Tsem Rinpoche

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