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ISSN 2753-4812
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Vajrakīlaya Series

Vajrakīlaya Restricted

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Supreme son of all the wrathful buddhas, Kīlaya,

Like a mighty vajra weapon that cuts with no resistance,

Deity of activity, the ultimate of wrathful liberators—

Vajrakumāra, to you I pay homage!

A series of texts related to the deity Vajrakīlaya or Vajrakīla (rdo rje phur ba):

Averting Obstacles

by Fifth Dalai Lama
This four-line apotropaic prayer is addressed to the deities of the Vajrakīlaya maṇḍala, requesting that they avert all forms of obstacle and harm.
Averting Obstacles 13 May 2015

Commentaries

by Guru Chökyi Wangchuk
This concise instruction on the practice of Vajrakīla (or Vajrakīlaya) was given by Guru Padmasambhava to his closest disciple, Khandro Yeshé Tsogyal. Rooted in the Atiyoga approach, the text elaborates on the oft-quoted verses from the Vajrakīla Root Tantra Fragment (Tōh. 439). Preserved within the Treasury of Revelations (Rinchen Terdzö), it stands as one of the few unedited, original revelations by Guru Chöwang from his Vajrakīla cycle, The Extremely Secret Razor Vajrakīla (phur ba yang gsang spu gri).
Termas Rinchen Terdzö Restricted 18 Mar 2020

Confession and Fulfilment

by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok
Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok composed this confession and fulfilment (bskang bshags) practice for the 'Neck-Pouch Kīla’ (Purba Gulkhukma) while in Namdrolling Monastery in India in 1990.
Fulfilment 24 Jul 2018

Empowerment

by Dudjom Rinpoche
This empowerment rite for the Vajrakīlaya practice of Pudri Rekpung, or 'Razor That Destroys at a Touch', was composed at the request of Chatral Rinpoche, Sangye Dorje (1913–2015).
Dudjom Tersar Empowerment Restricted 22 Nov 2024

Fire Offering

by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok
This fire offering for the 'Neck-Pouch Kīla’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle arose spontaneously to Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok in 1990 and was written down by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
Fire Offering Restricted 18 Sep 2018
by Tertön Sogyal
This fire-offering liturgy for the Yang Nying Pudri cycle of Vajrakīlaya practice was revealed in 1895 and deciphered two years later in Kongpo. The text's colophon is of historical significance as it lists some of the people present for the original revelation at Dzongshö Deshek Düpa.
Fire Offering Yang Nying Pudri Restricted 5 Jan 2024

Inventories

by Tertön Sogyal
This inventory (thems yig) provides key details of the Razor of the Innermost Essence (yang snying spu gri), including a list of all texts in the cycle, and important information for the tertön concerning its revelation.
Yang Nying Pudri Inventory Restricted 27 Apr 2019

Lineage Prayers

by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
A lineage prayer for Tsogyal's Whispered Transmission of Kīla (mtsho rgyal snyan brgyud phur pa), which was revealed by Gyarong Khandro, together with Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and Khandro Tsering Chödrön, from the Zadü (gza' bdud) cave at Khyungdrak Dorjei Yangdzong in 1953, and then transmitted by Jamyang Khyentse to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in 1955.
Termas Lineage Prayers 15 Aug 2023
by Fourteenth Dalai Lama
His Holiness composed this lineage prayer for the Vajrakīlaya practice of Purba Gulkhukma, a revelation of Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok, on 23 July 1990.
Lineage Prayers 20 Jul 2018
by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
This brief prayer to the lineage of The Vital Essence of the Activity Kīla of Aural Transmission (snyan brgyud phrin las phur pa’i gnad tig) was composed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and supplemented by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Lineage Prayers Rinchen Terdzö Khyentse Kabab 13 Sep 2022
by Tertön Sogyal
Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa wrote this prayer to the lineage of Vajrakīlaya, his yidam deity, during a break while on retreat.
Lineage Prayers 20 May 2013

Mantra Visualization

by Chatral Rinpoche
Chatral Rinpoche compiled this description of the visualization for the mantra recitation of the Longchen Nyingtik's Vajrakīlaya, Overpowering the Forces of Māra (Phurba Düpung Zilnön) by extracting excerpts from Jigme Lingpa's Tantra System Vajrakīlaya (Gyüluk Phurba).
Longchen Nyingtik Restricted 1 Jul 2024

Offering

by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
This prayer, to be recited when accumulating tsok offerings on a large scale, is extracted from 'The Essential Drop of Enlightened Activity: A Tsok Offering for the Single Mudrā Form of Vajrakumāra', which is itself part from the Sangtik Korsum cycle, a joint revelation of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa and Jamgön Kongtrul.
Termas Rinchen Terdzö Chokling Tersar Tsok Restricted 10 Aug 2020
by Jigme Lingpa
This practice of eight branches (prostration, taking refuge, offering real and imagined gifts, confession, rejoicing, generating bodhicitta, offering the body, and dedication of merit) derive from the Tantra System Vajrakīlaya (rgyud lugs phur pa), which is part of the Nyingma Kama collection, but appear in other texts, especially empowerment rites.
Seven Branches 13 Nov 2018

Praise

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
Jamyang Khyentse composed these verses in praise of Vajrakīlaya while engaged in intensive meditation upon the deity,
Praise 25 Jul 2022

Prayers

by Do Dasel Wangmo
A four-line supplication to Vajrakīlaya, the wrathful embodiment of enlightened activity.
Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 16 Dec 2023
by Gyarong Khandro
A prayer for Tsogyal's Whispered Transmission of Kīla (mtsho rgyal snyan brgyud phur pa), which was revealed by Gyarong Khandro, together with Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and Khandro Tsering Chödrön, from the Zadü (gza' bdud) cave at Khyungdrak Dorjei Yangdzong in the Water Snake year (1953), and then transmitted by Jamyang Khyentse to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in the Wood Sheep year (1955).
Termas Prayers
compiled by Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche
Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche took the Etrom Lower Activities Manual from the Yangsang Tukkyi Purchik as a basis and added verses from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s Nyakluk Phurba and a Rigdzin Kulwa from the Sakya tradition. The text was compiled during the Netik Phurba Drupchen in Lerab Ling, 2018.
3 Jun 2019
by Tertön Sogyal
For this prayer from the Vajrakīlaya cycle known as Yang Zab Nyingpo (Deepest Heart-Essence), the practitioner assumes the form of the deity Vajrakīlaya and prays to Guru Padmākara and consort, who are visualized above the head.
Prayers Descent of Blessings Termas 3 May 2019
by Tertön Sogyal
From the Vajrakīlaya cycle known as Yang Zab Nyingpo (Deepest Heart-Essence), this is the descent of blessings (byin 'bebs).
Prayers Descent of Blessings Termas 4 May 2019

Protectors

by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok
A reminder to the Kīlaya guardians of their past pledges and a request that they carry out activity on the practitioner's behalf. The text was composed in Yangleshö, Nepal, and transcribed by Khenpo Namdrol.
Torma Offering Restricted 19 Sep 2018
by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok
A short torma offering to the protectors of the 'Neck-Pouch Kīla’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle composed by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok and transcribed by Khenpo Sodargye.
Restricted 19 Sep 2018

Sādhanas

by Apang Tertön
This short daily sādhana of Vajrakīlaya concentrates on the ultimate nature of the deity, which is one's very own awareness, beyond imagery and attributes.
Sādhanas Termas Restricted 28 Apr 2019
by Dudjom Lingpa
Four lines on the ultimate visualization of Vajrakīlaya from the perspective of great perfect awareness.
Dudjom Tersar Restricted
by Dudjom Rinpoche
A popular practice of Vajrakīlaya in standard form, consisting of refuge and bodhicitta, visualization, mantra recitation, dissolution, dedication of merit, and prayer for auspiciousness.
Sādhanas Restricted 25 Apr 2019
by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
This simple sādhana of Vajrakīlaya, requested by Sogyal Rinpoche, contains, in the words of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's colophon, 'the concentrated blessings of kama and terma'.
Sādhanas Restricted 28 Jun 2019
by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
Jamyang Khyentse wrote this recitation guide (bklags thabs) for the Vajrakīla Root Tantra Section (phur pa rtsa dum) at the request of his master of ceremonies, Lama Chokden.
Sādhanas Khyentse Kabab Restricted 24 Jun 2020
by Jigme Lingpa
When Jigme Lingpa was in his sixties he ‘translated the signs’ of the four specific sādhanas of Palchen Düpa—Yamāntaka, Hayagrīva, Yangdak Heruka and Vajrakīlaya—at the request of Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Özer, Jigme Losalchen, and Tsewang Lhamo, the Queen of Derge. This is the sādhana of Vajrakīlaya.
Termas Palchen Düpa Restricted 21 Feb 2024
by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok
The concluding stages of the Neck-Pouch Kīla (Purba Gulkhukma) sādhana: offering, praise, receiving the attainments, dissolution, dedication of merit and words of auspiciousness.
Sādhanas Restricted 30 Jul 2018
by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok
This is the main text of the Purba Gulkhukma cycle of Vajrakīlaya practice, which Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok revealed at the Asura cave in Yangleshö, Nepal. It includes the empowerment, sādhana and gaṇacakra offering.
Sādhanas Restricted 30 Jul 2018
by Tertön Sogyal
This brief Vajrakīlaya sādhana, complete with tsok offering, was revealed as a terma at Katok Monastery.
Sādhanas Termas Restricted 24 Apr 2019

Tantras

from the Words of the Buddha
The Vajrakīla Root Tantra Section (or Fragment) (Tōh. 439), the remains of a much larger Vajrakīla tantra, was discovered and translated into Tibetan by Sakya Paṇḍita (1182–1251). According to the text's colophon, it was Guru Padmasambhava who brought the original to Tibet. The tantra contains several famous verses that appear in most Vajrakīlāya sādhanas and is the only Vajrakīlāya text included within the Kangyur. The edition translated here includes a colophon by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and benedictory verse by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.
Kangyur Compendium of Sādhanas Restricted 4 Mar 2021

Related Topics

Averting Obstacles Kagyé Yang Nying Pudri

Vajrakīlaya

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BDRC T1768 (rdo rje phur pa)
Himalayan Art Resources

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