Forms of Vajrayogini

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Himalayan Art Resources, Inc.

3 жыл бұрын

Jeff Watt introduces the main forms of Vajrayogini depicted in Himalayan art.

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@chamekke 3 жыл бұрын

The first of the two Naropa forms of Vajrayogini ("two legs down") is also practiced in the Gelug school. Thank you, great video!

@jeffwatt5114 3 жыл бұрын

All of the ‘Sarma’ forms of Vajrayogini from the Chakrasamvara tantras are practiced to a greater or lesser degree in the Gelug Tradition.

@gerhardheydrich3146 3 жыл бұрын

Very useful video, thanks again!

@adrianaurrutia5640 3 жыл бұрын

Thank u it s wonderfull

@lungtoktenzin3787 2 жыл бұрын

Greetings! @Jeff Watt There is an interest in the walking form of Vajravarahi with a raised cleaver in his right hand, his hair thrown up. Very similar to Dechen Gyalmo or Virochani but differetnt in detail - has a necklace of severed heads and knife. Do you have any information on this form? Not find on HAR.

@gardensofthegods 2 жыл бұрын

I only just discovered this channel just now and this is the only bit I've seen so far but to talk to him you need to click on to where he would have his name where you see him responding to other people and I don't know if he does that here I have to go look but that's how you would make sure she sees your question

@Soumyadeepchatterjee749 9 ай бұрын

Which form is this? I have never seen her in walking form

@lungtoktenzin3787 9 ай бұрын

@@Soumyadeepchatterjee749 On the Refuge tree of Barom Kagyu. Yadm's Branch.

@jerry-mind-sky 2 жыл бұрын

Why Narodakini ( Naropa had vision of her ) is not practiced in Kagyu ?

@djwt20 3 жыл бұрын

It's interesting, because both wild boars, and sows have tusks, and pigs were a sort of sacred sacrificial animal to both the deities Demeter and Persephone in ancient Greece, and to some extent in modern Greece. I'm in the belief that this practice may have been transmitted from Turkey to India along the silk road.

@srimallya 3 жыл бұрын

lol

@urbandiscount 3 жыл бұрын

@@srimallya Not that far-fetched: Guru Rinpoche is "Greek".

@srimallya 3 жыл бұрын

@@urbandiscount According to tradition, he was a native of Udyāna (now Swat, Pak.), an area famed for its magicians. Padmasambhava was a Tantrist and a member of the Yogācāra sect and taught at Nalanda, a centre of Buddhist studies in India. He was invited to Tibet in 747 by King Thī-srong-detsan and arrived at Samye (Bsan-yas), where he is said to have exorcised demons that were inhibiting the construction of a Buddhist monastery by causing earthquakes. He supervised the completion of the monastery in 749.

@djwt20 3 жыл бұрын

Quite right - I should have (at least) understood the traditions of Varaha and Varahi before making such a narrow statement; I'm sorry if I sounded uncompromising and culturally insensitive. I regretfully should have been more acquainted with India's demographic cultural population - but unfortunately, I guess I never got that far - my bad!

@DavidLKechara 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting theory but Buddhist scriptural interpretation of the ‘sow’ as the symbolic representation of ignorance and when the deity like Vajravarahi appears with it, it means the transmutation of ignorance into wisdom.