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The Melodious Song Pleasing

the Great Powerful One


The Long Sadhana of Most Secret Hayagriva
An essential compendium of the ritual activities of the
nine-deity, wrathful blood drinker, the Extremely Secret
Magnificent Great Powerful Lotus, the Horse-Necked One

Composed by Kalka Damtsig Dorje


Translation by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Jamyang
Wangmo

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Practice Requirements
Practitioners who have received the appropriate empowerment
of the most secret form of Hayagriva may practice this sadhana.

Contents
The Melodious Song Pleasing the Great Powerful One;
the Long Sadhana of Most Secret Hayagriva
Most Secret Hayagriva Tsog Oering

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The Melodious Song Pleasing


the Great Powerful One
The Long Sadhana of Most Secret Hayagriva

NAMO GURU HAYAGRIVAYA

Having respectfully paid homage to the magnificent great powerful lotus, the pervading guru Vajradharma, I will explain clearly
and concisely the meaning of the actions of the deity.
Herein is presented a condensed daily recitation of the activities of the special supreme deity, the destroyer qualified as gone
beyond, the Lotus Great Controller Hayagriva, the nine-deity extremely secret wrathful blood drinker.
This sadhana is divided into three sections: the preliminary practices, the actual practice, and the concluding practices.

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The Preliminary Practices


Refuge
Until we attain the state of the pervading lord Samantabhadra,
I and all sentient beings without exception who equal the sky
Take refuge in the Three Jewels the essence of Rare Sublimity
And in the entire assembly of mandala deities. (3x)

Generating Bodhichitta
In order to place all the limitless transmigrating beings, my
kind mothers,
In the state of peerless buddhahood,
I am going to practice the activities of this profound method
Of the Great Controller, the Extremely Secret Wrathful One. (3x)

Meditation on the Four Immeasurable Thoughts


May all sentient beings have happiness.
May all sentient beings be free from suering.
May all sentient beings forever abide in happiness.
May all transmigratory beings attain enlightenment. (3x or more)

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Requesting Prayer to the Lineage Lamas and


Collecting Merits
The eight-limb practice and so forth
OM VAJRA SAMAYA HUM JAH

To Limitless Illumination [Amitabha Buddha], to the Great


Powerful Deity,
To Padmasambhava, Vairochana, and the assembly of treasure
discoverers;
To Drubthob Darchyar and so forth, and to all the root and
lineage gurus, I make requests.
I prostrate to the vajra master and the glorified buddhas abiding
in the three times.
To the Three Jewels, who are the field of our dependence,
I take refuge with a non-dualistic mind.
Please accept these pure oerings,
Those actually performed and those emanated from my mind.
I confess each and every vice, the obstacles severing the stream
of attainments.
I rejoice in the Dharma, pure [emptiness], the three circles of the
ten directions, [buddhas, bodhisattvas, and sentient beings]
And in all conduct performed without attachment.
I generate the mind of complete enlightenment:
The ultimate sphere of dharmakaya purified of ignorance and
hallucinations
And devoid of the stains of the four extremes: eternalism,
nihilism, and so forth.
I and all limitless sentient beings
Oer our bodies to those abiding in the three times (gurus, buddhas, and so on).

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Having gathered all the virtues of countless lifetimes,


I dedicate them to the great enlightenment.
Eminent supreme field of guru deities,
Please open the gate to highly pleasing your holy mind.
Please bestow the blessings of your body, speech, and mind,
As well as the empowerment and attainments.

Driving Away the Obstacles and Establishing the


Border
OM VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT

From my heart, clarified as the holy body of the Supreme Horseheaded Hero,
Emanated Wrathful Ones, weapons, and a great conflagration
Which dispelled all hindering spirits and interferers from the
limits of all directions
And gathered back, became the tent of vajra protection.
OM RAM KRODHA RAKSHA VAJRA JVALA RAM TISHANA
VISHVA JVALA RAM PHAT PHAT RAM RAM (many times)

Purifying negative karma and obscurations


OM VAJRA SAMAJAH HUM

We are ignorant and disturbed sentient beings,


And have carelessly transgressed our pledges [not just recitation
and prayers of sadhana commitments, but also all the vows
taken during the initiation]
We request you, assembly of mandala deities of the Great
Powerful Lotus,
Out of your overwhelming compassion, have patience

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With whatever actions we have done against you.


By accepting us patiently, please bestow all miraculous
attainments.
OM PADMA SHRI HERUKA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA / PADMA
SHRI HERUKA TVENOPATISHTHA / DRIDHO ME BHAVA /
SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA / ANURAKTO ME BHAVA / SUPOSHYO
ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA
KARMA SUCHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA
HA HA HA HOH / BHAGAVAN PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAME
MUNCHA / PADMA SHRI HERUKO BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA
SATTVA AH HUM [PHAT] (as many times as you wish)

Causing the Glorified Power of All Blessings to


Descend
AH LA LA HOH / BHAGAVAN SAMAYA HOH / SAMAYA STVAM
HRIH Sambhogakaya of the assembly of deities of Wrathful

Hayagriva,
Arisen from the unchangeable dharmakaya state,
Quickly bestow great blessings at this supreme place.
Initiate and bestow all the attainments on me, the yogi.
Recite many times the root mantra by adding the following:
OM VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH

Blessing all the offering substances


RAM AH

From my heart syllable HRIH, RAM emanates.


From this, flames in the nature of transcendental wisdom
also emanate.

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AH is transformed into heaps of unborn blazing light,

Purifying all the stains of the collected oering and increasing them.
RAM YAM KHAM

Out of the non-objectified state of emptiness,


From my heart emanates fire, wind, and water,
That burn, dispel, and wash away all faults of the oering
substances.
In all the qualified and expansive, bliss-supporting vessels,
Oerings of water, sense enjoyments, and music are gathered like
clouds.
The wisdom nectar of choicest medicines blaze and swirl.
Heaps of tormas of flesh, blood, bones
Emanate sensory enjoyments.
The ocean of rakta (blood) is stirred by waves.
Everything is mixed inseparably with the transcendental wisdom
substances
And becomes an uncontaminated, inexhaustible, bliss-giving
treasury.

Blessing the outer offerings


OM AHARA AHARA HUM
OM VAJRA DHUPE AH HUM
OM VAJRA PUSHPE AH HUM
OM VAJRA ALOKE AH HUM
OM VAJRA GHANDHE AH HUM
OM VAJRA NAIVIDYA AH HUM
OM VAJRA SHAPTA AH HUM

Bless the medicine, torma, and rakta with this mantra:


OM SARVA PANCHA AMRITA HUM (3x)
OM MAHA BALIMTA PUJA TEJVA HUM (3x)
OM MAHA PADMA RAKTA HUM (3x)

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The Actual Body of the Practice


Generating the Supporting Mandala and the
Supported Deity out of the Three Concentrations
HUM From the vast expanse of ultimate nature.

All the various phenomena appear naturally.


They do not have nature [inherent existence],
They are like the reflection of the moon in water.
Everything is pervaded by great compassion.
The heart wisdom appears in the shape of HUM.
OM SHUNYATA JNANA SAMATI HUM
OM DHARMADHATU SAMATI HUM
OM JNANA VAJRA SAMATI HUM
HUM SPHARANA PHAT / SAM HARANA HUM
EH YAM RAM KHAM SUM KEM BHRUM

All the seed syllables and mantras completely transform into the
five elements,
Mount Meru, and the spontaneously actualized celestial mansion.
OM AGNE MANDALA HUM

From EH appears a light blue sky mandala, triangular in shape.


Above it is:
YAM KARMA RAKSHA MANDALA HUM
YAM transforms into a smoky wind mandala, semi-circular

and rippling.

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RAM JVALA MANDALA HUM


RAM transforms into a red fire mandala, triangular and blazing.
KHAM RAKTA MANDALA HUM
KHAM transforms into a red-black ocean of blood, circular and

pulsating.
SUM SUKME MANDALA HUM
SUM transforms into a yellow earth mandala, square and stable.
KEM NIRITI MANDALA HUM
KEM transforms into a square, white Mount Meru of skeletons.
BHRUM VISHVA VISHUDDHE JNANA CHAKRA MANDALA HUM
BHRUM is transformed into a celestial mansion, in the nature

of wisdom.
It is square with four doors, walls, plinth, frieze, garlands and
half-garlands,
A collection of dentils, parapet, pillars, beams, arched roof,
archways, and so forth.
It is endowed with perfect dimensions and all characteristics,
Splendidly beautified, glorious, and grand with the cemeteries
and jeweled ornaments.
Outside are the lotus fence, the eight great cemeteries,
The vajra fence, and blazing heaps of fire like that at the end
of the eon.
In the center of the mansion is a red-black triangular mandala.
In this is a red half-circle with a fence of dry skulls.
Beyond that is a four-spoked wheel, in the color of its direction,
Completely surrounded by a circular garland of wet human
heads.

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On the central triangle, on the four spokes, and the four doors is:
PAM PADMA MANDALA
PAM transforms into a exquisite variegated lotus seat.
AH CHANDRA MANDALA
AH transforms into a full moon mandala.
MA SURYA MANDALA
MA transforms into a radiantly blazing sun mandala.
MAHA RUTRA BAM

In the center is a seat composed of male and female black


maras.
DEVA BAM

On the eastern spoke is a seat composed of male and female


smell eaters (gandharvas). [There is a seat for the male wrathful
one and a similar seat for the female one.]
YAMA BAM

On the southern spoke is a seat composed of male and female


vampires.
NAGA BAM

On the western spoke is a seat composed of male and female


naga kings.
YAKSHA BAM

On the northern spoke is a seat composed of male and female


harm givers (yakshas).

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HRIH MAM

Onto the central seat descended a syllable HUM,


Which transformed into a red-black syllable HRIH and a blue
syllable MAM.
SPHARANA PHAT

Light emanated from them, pleased with oerings the assemblies


of arya beings
And purified every single negativity and obscuration of sentient
beings.
SAM HARANA HUM

Returned back, the light absorbed into both seed syllables.


TISHTHA VAJRA

They became inseparable and stable.


OM VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT
OM MAHA KRODHISHVARI HUM PHAT

From both HRIH and MAM I became completely transformed


Into the holy body of Hayagriva, the Lotus Great Controller.
I have three faces: right white, left green, and center red-black.
On the crown is a green horse head
With a white blaze, and a red mane with a yellow cloth hanging
from it,
Whinnying with a shrill sound toward the ten directions.
The faces all have three round bloodshot eyes.
The brows and beards are yellow, shining like lightning.
The hair is matted, dark brown (like chocolate) and beautified by
standing upright.

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I, Hayagriva, have six arms, the first right hand holds a lotus
And the left holds a skull filled with blood
With these arms I embrace the Mother of Great Bliss.
The remaining two right hands hold an iron hook and a club.
The remaining two left hands hold a lasso and a blazing sword.
The upper part of the holy body wears a human skin and a wet
elephant hide.
The lower part of the holy body is adorned with a tiger skin skirt.
The dried skull head ornament is topped with jewels.
The holy body is adorned with bone ornaments,
A triple garland each of fifty human heads dried, wet, and
withered
Jewels, and the four types of snakes.
The holy body is smeared with fingerprints of fat,
Drops of blood, and heaps of human ashes.
Having the garuda wings of complete victory over the three realms.
Having four legs and standing with the right legs bent
In the expression of the nine-fold dancing posture.
Entwining the right side of the lord is the secret mother, the lotus
dancing one,
The color of her holy body is blue-black, with one face and
two arms,
Three eyes agape, and the mouth snarling with bared fangs.
The hair, matted and thick, is black like the gloom of darkness.
The right hand, holding a heart, embraces the Father.
The left hand, holding a great conch shell (skull) filled with an
ocean of blood,
Makes oering to the mouth of the great magnificent lord.
In this way visualize clearly the Lord Father-Mother.

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Blessing the three places


OM AH HUM

At the crown of both the father and the mother is a moon disc,
At their throats a lotus, and at their hearts a sun disc,
Respectively adorned with a white OM, a red AH, and a blue HUM,
Thus blessing the body, speech, and mind.

Receiving the empowerment


OM BANDHA KAPALA BHRUM
HUM OM SVA AM HA

The head is adorned with a five skull turret: on the crown there is
a blue HUM;
At the forehead a white OM; above the right ear a yellow SVA;
At the back of the head red AM; and above the left ear a
green HA.
HUM VAJRA HERUKA
OM BUDDHA HERUKA
SVA RATNA HERUKA
AM PADMA HERUKA
HA KARMA HERUKA

The five seed syllables are completely transformed into the blood
drinkers of the five types (the five lords of the buddha families) become the full ornaments of the crown.
OM ABHISHANCHA HUM

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Being in Union and Generating All the


Surrounding Deities
HUM BAM

At the Fathers secret place a syllable HUM takes the aspect of a


five-pronged vajra.
At the Mothers secret place a syllable PAM becomes an eightpetaled lotus.
The openings of both secret places are blocked by PHAT.
SAMAYA HOH / SAMAYA STVAM
ANURAGAYAMI / ANURAGAYAHO
JAH HUM BAM HOH

With mutual desire the Father and Mother engage in union.


The sound of great bliss that follows invokes the buddhas and
their children.
They enter the mouth of the Father and dissolve into light at the
heart.
BODHICHITTA SPHARANA PHAT

Through the path of the vajra they descend into the Mothers
space (womb),
And become the essence of the eight syllable drops.
HUM HUM HUM HUM JAH HUM BAM HOH
SPHARANA PHAT
SAMHARANA HUM
OM VAJRASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT

On the seat of the eastern spoke there is a syllable HUM


That transformed into the Great Vajra Having Control
Who has a white wrathful holy body,

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One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a vajra,
And the left, a club in a manner of great grandeur.
OM RATNASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT

On the seat at the southern spoke, there is a syllable HUM


That transformed into the Great Jewel Having Control
With a yellow-blue wrathful holy body,
One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a jewel,
And the left, a hook in a hooking manner.
OM PADMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT

On the seat at the western spoke, there is a syllable HUM


That transformed into the Great Lotus Having Control.
With a red wrathful holy body,
One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a lotus,
And the left, a noose in a binding manner.
OM KARMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT

On the seat at the northern spoke, there is a syllable HUM


That transformed into the Great Best Action Having Control
With a green-red wrathful holy body.
One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a sword ,
And the left, a trident in a stabbing manner.
All of them have three eyes and are snarling with bare fangs.
Their hair is dark brown, beautified, bristling, and bound by snakes.
Their bodies are adorned with each and every vestment of
the cemeteries.
They stand with left and right legs stretched and bent respectively,
amidst a mass of fire.
OM VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH

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On the seat of the eastern door,


Is a syllable JAH,
Transformed into the Hook Woman,
White, with matted blood-red hair,
Holding a hook, a lung, and a heart.
OM VAJRA PASHA HUM

On the seat of the southern door,


Is a syllable HUM,
Transformed into the Noose Lady,
Yellow, with matted turquoise hair,
Holding a noose, a lung, and a heart.
OM VAJRA SPHOTA BAM

On the seat of the western door,


Is a syllable BAM,
Transformed into the Iron Chain Woman,
Red, with matted dark blue hair,
Holding an iron chain, a lung, and a heart.
OM VAJRA GANTE HOH

On the seat of the northern door,


Is a syllable HOH,
Transformed into the Bell Lady.
Green, with matted golden hair,
Holding a bell, a lung, and a heart.
All four female wrathful ones have one face, two legs, and
two arms.
They are adorned with the vestments of the cemeteries and stand
amidst a conflagration.
In this way, visualize clearly the assembly of surrounding deities.

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Hooking and Receiving the Wisdom Beings


OM VAJRA SAMAYA HUM JAH HRIH

Light rays emanate from the syllable HRIH at my heart


And implore the holy mind of the highly glorified
Assembly deities of the Great Magnificent One.
With compassion, please arise in your holy body
From the natural abode.
Because of your samaya, please be here at this place.
EH HYE HI BHAGAVAN MAHAKARUNIKA TRISHYA HOH
SAMAYA JAH
SAMAYA STVAM

Thus invite them.


Prostrate with:
ATIPUHO
JAH HUM BAM HOH
SAMAYA STVAM

Thus request them to absorb [in the visualization] and abide.

Offering the substances


HRIH To the assembly deities of Extremely Secret Wrathful Great

Controller,
I respectfully oer: Drinking water, sense enjoyments, medicine,
rakta, torma, and so forth,
Increased into an ocean of wish-fulfilling desire objects.
Please accept them with compassion.

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OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA


SAPARIVARA ARGHAM PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM

In the same way, make the outer oerings, substituting drinking


water with incense, flowers, light, perfume, food, and music.
Substitute ARGHAM with VAJRA DHUPE, VAJRA PUSHPE, VAJRA
ALOKE, VAJRA GANDHE, VAJRA NAIVIDYA and VAJRA SHAPTA.

OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA


SAPARIVARA VAJRA DHUPE PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA
SAPARIVARA VAJRA PUSHPE PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA
SAPARIVARA VAJRA ALOKE PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA
SAPARIVARA VAJRA GANDHE PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA
SAPARIVARA VAJRA NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA
SAPARIVARA VAJRA SHAPTA PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM

OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA


SARVA PANCHA AMRITA KHARAM KHAHI

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KAYA SIDDHI OM
VAKKA SIDDHI AH
CHITTA SIDDHI HUM
OM SARVA PANCHA AMRITA KHARAM KHAHI

Thus oer the medicinal nectar.


Oer the rakta with:
MAHARAKTA KHARAM KHAHI

Perform the oering of union with:


PADMA SUKHA BODHICHITTA SVAHA

Perform the annihilation oering with:


NRI TRI JAH / SARVA BIGHANA SHATRUM MARAYA PHAT
MAHAMAMSA / MAHARAKTA / MAHA KEM NIRITI /
MAHAPANCHA AMRITA KHARAM KHAHI

[This is an oering of severing the evil mind from the body.]

Oer the torma with:


MAHABALIMTA KHARAM KHAHI BHIBA HOH

Oer the five poisons, the samaya ingredients, as consecrated


substances with:
MAHAMAMSA KHAHI / MAHARAKTA KHAHI / MAHA KEM
NIRITI KHAHI / MAHABASUTA KHAHI / MAHA GOROCHANA
KHAHI

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Oer the six sense pleasures with:


OM RUPA / SHAPTA / GANDHE / RASA / SPARSHA /
DHARMADHATU KAMAGUNA PUJA MEGHA SAMUDRA
SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM

Praise
HRIH Although not moving from the sphere of clear light,

You are the manifestation of great bliss, the [state of] unification,
Displaying various emanation bodies:
I prostrate to the Magnificent Supreme Stallion.
Although completely free from all mental fabrications,
You adopt the mode of an illusory woman
To subdue by desire those who have desire:
I prostrate to the Wrathful Mother.
Transformation of the contaminated aggregates is the wisdom
holy body
Which is completely purified of delusions.
You, the four Wrathful Conquerors, fully perform the four activities:
To you, I prostrate.
You are purified of eternalism, nihilism,and a naturally existing I.
[The extreme of eternalism is samsara, the extreme of nihilism
is the sorrowless state of the lesser vehicle. The way of liberating from these two is as mention in the teachings of the Abhisamayalankara by having wisdom you dont abide in samsara, by having compassion you dont abide in peace. One
should stop the two extremes, eternalism and nihilism, by having wisdom realizing emptiness and by great compassion.
This contains the inherent existence of the person and the inherent existence of phenomena (the aggregates). See Liberation in the
Palm of your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche or any teachings by H. H.

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the Dalai Lama on emptiness. Also Jerey Hopkins Meditation on


Emptiness.]

You are the essence of four means of drawing: [giving, speaking


sweetly, working for others, and practicing what you teach]
And the essence of immeasurable thought.
Hooking, entering, binding, and controlling,
To you, the Ladies of the Four Doors, I prostrate.
In order to subdue all vicious beings
You are extremely wrathful, overwhelming, and irresistible,
And well-aligned like a blazing garland:
I prostrate to all those who abide by the order (the protectors).
Having the completely purified twelve related dependent limbs
And the nature of the thirty-seven dharmas leading in the
direction of enlightenment,
Essence of great bliss, well completed;
To that unfathomable mansion, I prostrate.
Ground, fence, and tent of non-dual wisdom vajra,
Having blazing heaps of wisdom fire:
To that protecting wheel, I prostrate.
By this virtue of oering praises to you,
May I completely eliminate the obstacles of the path,
May I fully complete the two accumulations in this life,
And attain enlightenment, the essence of the four holy bodies.

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HUM At the heart of myself as the Wrathful Conqueror, Glorious

Supreme Stallion,
On the stamens of an eight-petaled lotus,
Is the heart syllable HRIH, surrounded by the mantra upon the
eight petals.
Light issues forth and absorbs into all the tathagatas,
Giving the outer, inner, and secret oerings.
Collects the attainments of holy body, speech, and mind,
Purifies the stains of the three doors of sentient beings,
And absorbs back into the body, speech, and mind of the yogi.
[Perform the meditation combining the generation and completion stages.]
HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT
OM MAHA KRODHISHVARI HUM PHAT
OM VAJRASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
OM RATNASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
OM PADMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
OM KARMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
OM VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH
OM VAJRA PASHA HUM
OM VAJRA SPHOTA BAM
OM VAJRA GHANTE HOH

Do the meditation on the sound of the shrill whinny one time.


Recite the mantras of the principal deities and the retinue as
much as you wish. At the end of the recitation recite the vowels
and consonants, and the dependent arising heart mantra, three
times each, and then the hundred-syllable mantra.

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ALI (Vowels)
OM A AA I II U UU RI RII LI LII E AI O AU AM AH SVAHA
(3x)

KALI (Consonants)
OM KA KHA GA GHA NGA / CHA CHHA JA5 JHA NYA /
TA THA DA DHA NA / TA THA DA DHA NA / PA PHA BA
BHA MA / YA RA LA VA / SHA SHA SA HA KSHA SVAHA
(3x)

Dependent-Related Heart Mantra


OM YE DHARMA HETU PRABHAVA HETUN TESHAN
TATHAGATO HYAVADAT TESHA CHAYO NIRODHA EVAM
VADI MAHA SHRAMANA YE SVAHA (3x)

The Hundred-Syllable Mantra


OM PADMA SHRI HERUKA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA / PADMA
SHRI HERUKA TVENOPATISHTHA / DRIDHO ME BHAVA /
SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA / ANURAKTO ME BHAVA / SUPOSHYO
ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA
KARMA SUCHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA
HA HA HA HOH / BHAGAVAN PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAME
MUNCHA / PADMA SHRI HERUKO BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA
SATTVA AH HUM [PHAT]

Praises to Dzab
HUM Supreme Wrathful Conqueror of the lotus family,

Most glorious Lotus Heruka,


Inexhaustible Wrathful Conqueror, Supreme Horse,
Great controlling, wrathful, most powerful, overwhelming,
and furious.

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My red-black body is awesome, elegant, and sensuous.


My three heads show the three doors to liberation.
My six arms eradicate the six streams of consciousness.
My four legs liberate from the four dharmas of cyclic existence.
My holy body is perfected with the eight vestments of the
cemeteries;
My green horse head makes the sound of a shrill whinny.
Standing in the midst of a colossal, blazing bonfire,
I roar with the overwhelming voice of a thousand dragons,
Bringing under my control the male and female lordly spirits
(dregpa).
I oer praise and prostrate to the holy body of the Great Controller.

Taking the Attainment of the Recitation


HUM Wrathful Conqueror, awesome magnificent Supreme Stallion,

Please bestow on me, the yogi, now, in this instant,


The supreme attainment, the wisdom wish-fulfilling jewel,
From the supreme holy body, speech, and mind of the
Glorious One.
OM PADMANTAKRITA PADMASHVARI MAHAKRODHA
HAYAGRIVA MAMA DRAGMO DUNTIM HRIM HRIM HUM JAH
(21x or 3x)
OM PADMAKRODHA KAYA VAKKA CHITTA SIDDHI AH LA LA
HOH (minimum 7x)

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Concluding Practices
Making Offerings to the Protectors of the
Doctrine
RAM YAM KHAM BHRUM

Bless all the oering substances with:


OM AH HUM
HRIH Any form appearing from the magical power of the various

minds are the field of illusion.


From the vajra palace, which is the appearance of innate wisdom,
I request the assemblies of commanded and pledged protectors,
please be here.
OM EH HYE HI JAH JAH

Thus invoke them.


VAJRA SAMAYA RAKSHANTU

Thus bind them by pledge.


OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIWARA IDAM
BALIMTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI (3x or 7x)

With this, oer the torma.

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Oer from ARGHAM to SHAPTA.


OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA ARGHAM
PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA PADYAM
PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA VAJRA
DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA VAJRA
PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA VAJRA
ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA VAJRA
NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA VAJRA
SHAPTA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
MAHAPANCHA AMRITA KHAHI
MAHARAKTA KHAHI

With this oer the medicine and rakta.


Do the confession and fulfillment:

HUM Clouds of oering, a treasure as vast the whole sky, pleases


and fulfills the pledged protectors.
All these treasures [phenomena] that can appear and exist manifest as heaps of desire enjoyments.
The various virtues of all cyclic existence and nirvana swirled
into one.

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The unification of bliss and voidness in the play of illusory form


Satisfies the holy minds of the oceans of commanded and pledged
protectors.
I confess from my heart all the collections of mistakes, transgressions and misunderstandings.
By satisfying your holy minds and reviving all degenerated and
broken samayas,
You remove all obstructing conditions and accomplish every
harmonious condition without exception.

Praise and Request for the Activities


HUM To you, the ocean of those living in samaya, who live in the
order with their retinue;
Who, out of compassion, arose in the form of the holy body
From the unborn sphere [dharmakaya] in order to protect the
teaching of the Buddha,
With a mind of devotion, I prostrate and oer praises.
By accepting this ocean of oering tormas made with consecrated substances,
May all of us masters, disciples and all surrounding beings
Accomplish, without the mind being distracted, the four activities.
May the teachings of the Buddha spread and increase.

Performing the Tsog Offering


Dispel the interferers with the boundary mantra:
OM RAM KRODHA RAKSHA VAJRA JVALA RAM TISHANA
VISHVA JVALA RAM PHAT PHAT RAM RAM
RAM YAM KHAM
OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA
SHUDDHO HAM

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By this purify in emptiness.

While the tsog substances are empty, AH and MA, which become
sun and moon containers, appear. Upon them, the three syllables
OM, AH, and HUM melt and become the five desire enjoyments
and the heaps.
[First the 5 desire enjoyments and then by multiply lights are increased and become heaps.]

OM AH HUM (3x)
OM MAHARATNA KAMALA VISHUDDHE HUM

By this bless [the tsog].

Inviting the guests


HUM Please descend here from the sphere of the completely

pure nature [dharmakaya],


Irresistible, wrathful emanated deities of the mandala of the Lotus Great Controlling One.
Be here to enjoy this feast [tsog].
OM EH HYE HI BHAGAVAN MAHAKARUNIKA MAHA
PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA VAJRA SAMAJAH / PADMA
KAMALAYE STVAM

Offering the general tsog


HUM These unsurpassable, supreme sacred oerings,

Emanate the radiant light of the five wisdoms,


They are beautifully adorned with the five desire enjoyments.

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In accordance with your samaya, please accept them in whichever


way you wish.
OM MAHA PADMESHVARE SAPARIVARA IDAM DHUPE
PUSHPE DIPAM GANDHE NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA SVAHA
HUM Forms, sounds, smells, and objects of the mind consciousness,

Inexhaustible desire enjoyments - a treasure of the sky,


These oerings of the great enjoyment tsog
Are in inconceivable quantities,
Filling up the whole sky,
I oer these to the assembly deities of the mandala.
Please accept this desire enjoyment oering.
AH LA LA [Please enjoy!]
OM MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA KAMA GUNA PUJA
HOH

To oer in detail, divide the tsog into three parts. First oering by
praising:

The Great Principal who is enriched with the power of dancing,


Sensuous, heroic, and fearful;
Laughing, scolding, and terrifying;
Compassionate, overwhelming, peaceful, and so forth.
The features of your body are extremely changeable in dance.
Showing [these] to the practitioner yogi.
I am oering the essential (substances)
Such as the moon, mamsa, and so forth.
As well as sandalwood scents.

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The essential substances are oerings of high quality blessed in


the nature of nectar. Essential here refers to the substances having the special qualities of color, taste, tangible objects, and power.
Taste also refers to the supreme taste, which is sweet with a cool
sensation. Like the moon, milk, or the color of mercury, they are
white and pure. The power the oering objects possess is the power of being able to restore life to those who have died.
Mamsa is defined as meat. The words so forth refer to various tsog substances such as wine, flowers, light oerings, fruit,
incense, and so on.

Please accept all that I oer as most pure and perfect. Bless me,
the yogi, [with] the supreme tangible objects of the humans, female beings.
The commentary states the above as the human daughters,
which pertains to the consort that helps you to develop the extremely subtle wisdom, the clear light, the simultaneously born
bliss and wisdom, which is the quickest method to cut the defilements.

Please make all these substance of achievement powerful (by


means of) HUM and PHAT.
By expressing HUM one is able to generate the ultimate realization of bliss and voidness in ones mental continuum. Through
expressing PHAT one developing ones mental continuum to be
capable of eliminating the demon, self-grasping, in the sphere of
emptiness.
MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA GANACHAKRA PUJA
KHARAM KHAHI

Cut the middle torma and oer.

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HUM Assembled guru deities of the mandala, please pay attention

to me:
Due to ignorance, with our body, speech, and mind we have carelessly violated our pledges.
We are requesting to you, whose holy mind is enriched with great
compassion:
Please have patience for whatever actions we have done against
the sacred mind of the assembly deities of the Lotus Great Controllers mandala.
Please be patient and purify us.
Grant pure miraculous attainments.
Recite the hundred-syllable mantra many times.
OM PADMA SHRI HERUKA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA / PADMA
SHRI HERUKA TVENOPATISHTHA / DRIDHO ME BHAVA /
SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA / ANURAKTO ME BHAVA / SUPOSHYO
ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA KARMA
SUCHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA HA HA HA
HOH / BHAGAVAN PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAME MUNCHA /
PADMA SHRI HERUKO BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM
[PHAT]

Lastly, perform the oering by cutting:


EH RAM / JVALA RAM / PHAT RAM / EH RNRI TRI JAH / NAMO

[I pay homage.]
By power of the direct and indirect gurus, mind-seal deities, Three
Precious Sublime Ones,
And particularly the assembly deities of the Lotus Great Controller,
As well as the assembly deities of heroes, dakinis, and Dharma
protectors,

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(As well as) by the power of mantra, concentration, and the truth
of unbetraying dependent arising,
May the consciousness and life force of all harming enemies and
interferers who damage the collections of goodness of the
teachings of Buddha and also sentient beings be hooked here
on this visualized base, instantly, at this very moment.
VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH
VAJRA PASHA HUM
VAJRA SPHOTA BAM
VAJRA GANTE HOH
PRABESHAYA PHAT
ABESHAYA PHAT

Thus generate the egy, hook, and absorb.


HUM The blazing of the wrathful emanations will destroy all the

ten fields without exception, cut the net of disturbing thoughts of


samsara, and eliminate the five poisons into the sphere [of great
emptiness].
[The ten fields refer to the evil doers who commit ten heavy negative acts such as harming the guru, destroying the teachings,
harming living beings, and so forth.]
OM PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAHAKRODHA PADMANTAKRITA
CHANDHA RAGA PASHAM MARAYA KILI KILA HUM PHAT
SARVA BIGHANAN SHATRUM MARAYA PHAT

Thus annihilate.

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OM HRIH SHTRIH VIKRITANANA HUM PHAT

All enemies and interferers MARAYA NASHAYA STAMBHAYA HUM


PHAT

Thus cut the form with a knife.


HUM I am making an oering of the flesh, blood, bones, intes-

tines, liver,
Desire, hatred, ignorance, pride, and jealousy
Of the enemies and interferers who were annihilated into the
sphere [emptiness]
Please accept as substances the body, speech, mind, qualities,
and activities.
MAHA PANCHA AMRITA / MAHABALIMTA / MAHAMAMSA /
MAHARAKTA / MAHACHITTA / MAHABASUTA / MAHA KEM
NIRITI / MAHA GOROCHANA KHAHI
AH LA LA HOH

By saying this, enjoy the tsog. Then, send away the remaining
torma:
OM AH HUM (3x)

Recite all the mantras from HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA


HULU HULU HUM PHAT to OM VAJRA GANTE HOH.
HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT
OM MAHA KRODHISHVARI HUM PHAT
OM VAJRASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
OM RATNASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
OM PADMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT

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OM KARMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT


OM VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH
OM VAJRA PASHA HUM
OM VAJRA SPHOTA BAM
OM VAJRA GHANTE HOH
HRIH From the red-black triangular empowerment mandala,

[Arises the assembly of deities of the conqueror, the Great Magnificent Blood Drinker, Surrounded by a retinue of a hundred thousand groups of haughty spirits (dregpa),
Arising into a body from the abode of the wondrous Great
Powerful One,
Accept this torma adorned with consecrated substances.
Please bestow the common and supreme attainments.
Turn to atoms of ashes the harmful enemies and interfering [spirits].
Accomplish the activities entrusted to you by the yogi.
To the holy mouth of all those who reside above,
MAHA PANCHA AMRITA KHAHI / MAHABALIMTA KHAHI /
MAHARAKTA KHAHI

In this way make oerings to those who reside above.

To all the assemblies of deities who have control over the remaining food of the Magnificent Great One,
EH HYE HI JAH JAH MUDRA SAMAYA HUM
MUDRA SAMAYA PHAT
BODHICHITTA SPHARANA PHAT
HUM There is nothing to oer with first pure essence (E), the De-

stroyer, Qualified, Highly Glorified One is the owner of the first


pure essence.
In the middle, there is nothing to enjoy the tsog (E), the Mother and
the sisters enjoy the tsog.

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There is nothing to make the last residue (E), the Great Controllers servant possesses the residue.
The residue is not sprinkled with mouth water (E).
There is a great dierence between the Lord and subjects.
There is nothing to mix the three aspects into one (E).
In the sphere of existence there is no bad and good.
By making oering, there is no reliance for the activities (E).
Destroying the teaching of the Dharma wheel happened.
[E = emptiness. According to Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoches commentary, this is all related to emptiness like the Heart Sutra. According to Choden Rinpoches commentary: the first one is a way of
expressing that one should make oering with the first pure essence although expressed negatively. ..in the middle one should
enjoy the tsog one should make the last residue one should
sprinkle with mouth water one should mix the three into one
one should rely for the activities.]
HRIH From the black-red triangular-shaped mandala the Destroy-

er Qualified Highly Glorified One assembly of the deities completely surrounded by the host of armies, the five types of great
Garuda and Rahula, mamo, maras, tsen, gyalpo and so forth, and
the eight groups of cannibal devas who take the torma and give
help, I oer this torma beautifully adorned, please accomplish the
actions that I rely upon you for. In the holy mouth of the assembly
of deities of the residue tsog.
IDAM BALIM GRIHANA GRIHANA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI
PUJA HOH / RAKTA PIPAM HOH SAMAYA SVAHA
YAHI GACCHA

I request to turn back by saying this.

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Torma Offering
If you wish to oer torma, bless it by reciting:
OM AH HUM (3x)
HRIH The protectors who are living in the pledge,

put under the restriction (seal) by the assemblies


of Heruka and possessor of siddhis (attainments)
please descend here and take this samaya ingredients torma. Please perform the activities entrusted
to you by your oath.
DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA MAHA BALIMTA KHAHI
/ VAJRA SAMAYA RAKSHANTU

Oer this and rely upon them for action.

Offering torma to Tenma


TRAM RATNA TRAILOKYA PHAT / OM AH HUM (3x)
OM ARALI HRIM HRIM JAH JAH / BHYOH PADMA MAMO

Twelve Tenma and their own horsed entourage who listen to the
order of the Great Controlling One please be here, take the samaya substance torma as you promised in the past, took the samaya, please accomplish the actions that I rely upon you for. In
the holy mouth of the Twelve Tenma MAHA BALIMTA MAHA PANCHA AMRITA MAHA RAKTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI.

Oer by saying this.


Request to turn back with this:
YAHI GACCHA

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If one wishes to elaborate:


E RNRI TRI JAH
HRIH From the mandala of non-detachment lotus on the aggre-

gates of the superstition interferors by beating the Tor of the play


of non-duality the great mass of demons conception of duality is
destroyed.
HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT all the
enemy interferers STAMBHAYA NAN

Beat the Tatro (a type of Tibetan drum) by saying this.


Now the thanking oering:
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA
SARVA MAHA PANCHA AMRITA KHAHI / MAHA BALIMTA
KHAHI / MAHA RAKTA KHAHI

Make oering with the previous mantra OM SARVA TATHAGATA


MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA from ARGHAM to SHAPTA.
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA
ARGHAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA
PADYAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA
PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA
DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

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OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA


ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA
GANDHE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA
NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

Praise and Request


HRIH The Glorified Supreme Horse (the Father) changing in the

dance of the uncontaminated bliss.


The Glorified Supreme Horse (the Mother), the dancing Female
Controlling One, in the expression of emptiness and compassion.
The assemblies of the mandala deities of the various transformations (the surrounding deities)
And to the five kings, Rahula and Begtse, great protectors,
I praise.
May the blood drinker nine-deities protectors abiding in the
pledge extremely develop the rest of the panacea and happiness, the stainless teaching of the Victorious One, through explanation and practice, and please make the groups of sangha
who preserve the teaching increase.
May I who respectfully rely upon you destroying the interferers, be victorious over the obstacle, the war of the host of the
maras and be like you, who are the Wrathful Controller and
the Eminent One in power and strength.
Like this praise and request for wishes.

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Request for Forgiveness


Being under the control of ignorance, all the mistakes that were
done against the holy mind of the Lotus Great Controller assembly of the deities, we confess from the heart. Please be patient
with us.
Then recite Vajrasattvas hundred-syllable mantra eliminating the
mistakes.
OM VAJRASATTVA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA / VAJRASATTVA
TVENOPATISHTHA / DRIDHO ME BHAVA / SUTOSHYO ME
BHAVA / SUPOSHYO ME BHAVA / ANURAKTO ME BHAVA /
SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA KARMA SU
CHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA HA HA HA HO /
BHAGAVAN SARVA TATHAGATA / VAJRA MAME MUNCHA /
VAJRA BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHAT

Do any of the practices asking the guests to return back or to absorb into the holy objects and stabilize:

O you who possess the treasury of all beings welfare, please


grant the blessings wished for and after returning to the land of
the buddhas, return here in the future. Pray, let it be done.
The transcendental wisdom beings either return back to their natural abode or if there are holy objects they absorb and stabilize
with them. The samaya beings absorb to oneself as the deity.

The Absorption
The container (place) and essence (living beings), the unfathomable mandala, even that absorbs to the entourage. The entourage
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the Father. Even the holy body of the Great Controlling One like a
rainbow faded away in the sphere of purity from the beginning.
VAJRA MU
OM MAHASHUNYATA JNANA VAJRA SVABHAVA ATMAKO
HAM

Place the mind in equipoise in the state of reality great emptiness.


HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT

Again, like a water bubble coming from the water oneself is clarified in the Most Secret Wrathful One. From the holy body a wisdom-conflagration of transcendental fire blazes fiercely and it becomes a strong armor of fearless protection.
HAYAGRIVA HRIH GAB / BAMODHAYA HRIH GAB / PADMA
BANDHA HRIH GAB / CHANDHA RAKSHA HRIH GAB / RULU
RULU HUM BHYOH HUM

Arise into the deity and protect the body.

Dedication
Due to this merit, may I and so forth sentient beings attain the
state of the Lotus Victorious One (Hayagriva) and spread in ten
directions the voice of the horse of the manifestation of the Bliss
Enjoying One to all the multitudes of those who are born blinded
by ignorance.

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Auspicious Prayer
OM The samatuk (a special receptacle) of the holy body, holy

speech, holy mind, and holy actions filled well with attainment
immortal nectar the assemblies of the deities of Hayagriva who
help to accomplish the vajra life that brings all the success of
common and sublime ones be auspicious. By expressing this auspicious prayer may everything be happy and good.
The practice ends here.

Dedication by the composer of the sadhana:


By spreading this attaining method of the Great Controlling Extremely Secret
Wrathful One whose action is condensed, clarified and made easy may I be happily (pleased) guided by the Guru Deity and accomplish spontaneously all the
works for self and others.

Original Colophon:
This which is called La Chung (this text) action transformation integrated into essence of Melodious Song Pleasing the Great Controlling One of the Special Sublime Deity Lotus Great Controlling Hayagriva Extremely Secret Wrathful Blood
Drinker Nine-Deities. I, the follower of the advice of the holy Gurus, Samaya Vajra (Kalka Damtsig Dorje), wrote down well in the great Dharma learning monastery Glorified Sera Dechen Ling, originator of oceans of learned attained ones, as
I was persuaded precisely by many virtuous friends who practiced this sublime
deity as mind-sealing deity (yidam) for something like this for their daily practice
which has all the meaning of the elaborate La Chung but less words. The writing
was done by one who is possessor of expanding the extensive infinite scripture
the virtuous friend Losang Tseten. By this merit may the stainless precious teaching of the sutra tantra of the Soft Savior Victorious One (Tsongkhapa) never be
degenerated and spread in all directions at all times and be developed and last
a long time.
This text was spread with Dharma charity without bearing hardships by Sera Je
Geshe Sengye. By this merit may the life of the holy body of the Snow Land savior

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and his holy actions be increased, and may the virtue and signs of the teaching of
the transmigratory beings in the Snow Land be increased.

Translators Colophon and Dedication


First translated from the Tibetan by Gelongma Jamyang Wangmo, with the kind
assistance of Chatro Rinpoche, Keusang Rinpoche, Khamtrul Rinpoche and Venerable Lhagdor. Dharamsala, March 1996.
Due to these merits, may the life and activities of the protector of the Land of
Snows, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, increase and develop. May the Dharma
flourish. May all beings be happy.
Additional translation/editorial work has been done by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
working together with various students, including Tom Szymanski, Karuna Cayton, Judith Hunt, and Ven. Sarah Thresher. Light editorial polishing and formatting by Ven. Constance Miller, FPMT Education Department, November 1999.
Tibetan phonetics checked against the original Tibetan text by Ven. Constance
Miller, July 2003.

Note on the Translation:


Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given the following input regarding this text: The
Hayagriva sadhana is extremely complicated. Logically, the words do not make
sense a lot of the time as it is a secret tantra. One basically needs a direct understanding of emptiness to really understand the meaning of this sadhana. Even in
the Tibetan, the text is extremely unclear and there are many dierent ways to
interpret it.

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Tsog Offering
TSA GY LA MA YI DAM SHI TRO DANG

Root Gurus, mind bound deities peaceful and wrathful,


KHE PAR WANG CHEN YANG SANG TRO PI LHA

In particular Powerfully Great Extremely Secret Wrathful Deity,


CHOG SUM KHA DRO DAM CHEN SUNG ME TSOG

The Sublime Three, dakinis, the assembly of protectors living


in pledge assembly,
LHA LU SHI DAG GEG RIG LN CHAG SOG

Devas, nagas, landlords, interferers, indebted ones, and


so forth,
CHOG MN TSOG GYI DRN NAM THAM CH LA

Supreme and lesser invited guests of the oering,


DAM TSE TSOG CH DU TSII GYA TSO BL

To all his pledged substance, of an ocean of tsog oering nectar, is oered.


ZHE NE NYAM CHAG KUN JANG BAR CHE DOG

By taking this, please purify all degenerations and eliminate


obstacles.
CHOG DANG THUN MONG NGO DRUB TSL DU SOL

Please bestow all supreme and common attainments.


GANA CHAKRA PUNZA KHA RANG KHAHI

Colophon:
Translated by Venerable Tsenla, Vajrapani Institute Most Secret Hayagriva Retreat, October 1997. Phonetics scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett and edited by Venerable Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Services, November 2009.

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