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These are ancient
Tibetan Mountain goddesses who were won over by Guru Rinpoche and bound by oath
to Buddhist dharma. Invite them to your house and receive immense blessing of
different categories.
Let me introduce
the goddess. Refer the precious images.
TASHI TSERINGMA( བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མ) GODDESS OF POWERFUL PROTECTION.
Tseringma is the all-powerful
Earth Goddess of Protection. She is the leader of the five long life sisters
and she rides on a snow lioness.
She protects you
from premature death caused by the elements. On her right hand she carries the
9-spoked vajra and on her left, a long life flask embellished with the Buddhist
swasktika knot.
She offers supreme
protection against all forces that threaten your safety. Tashi Tseringma rules
from the Centre.
TINGI SHALZANGMA (མཐིང་གི་ཞལ་བཟང་མ)-GODDESS OF
YOUTHFUL BEAUTY AND LOVE.
Shalzangma is the
all powerful Earth Goddess of Beauty and Love. She appears in a blue body and
holds a silver mirror and the banner of the Gods.
Shalzangma rides on
a mare and her main specialty is to restores one's youthful glow and beauty,
making you attractive and pleasant in the eyes of others.
Shalzangma brings
harmony in relationships, increases the attractiveness and complexion of one's
face.
She is a highly
respected guardian of the East.
MIYO LOZANGMA (མི་གཡོ་གླང་བཟང་མ)-GODDESS OF WEALTH & ABUNDANCE.
Lozangma is the all
powerful Earth Goddess of Wealth and Abundance. She is the sister who governs
all aspects of prosperity luck, asset wealth and property.
She has a yellow
body, and on her hand is a bowl of delicious food and a mongoose spouting
jewels.
Longzangma rides a
Tigress. She can help remove financial obstacles and increase one's income luck
and luxurious enjoyments.
Lozangma appears in
the entourage of all the wealth Buddhas and guards the the South direction.
CHOPAN DRINZANGMA (ཅོད་པན་མགྲིན་བཟང་མ)- GODDESS WHO FULFILLS WISHES
Drinzangma is the
long life sister who grants wishes, makes everything auspicious and brings
authority in all things. Her body is red in colour and she carries a
wish-fulfilling jewel while riding on a doe.
She repels all ill
effects of bad omens and bad dreams, and gathers auspicious conditions for good
things to ripen!
She is an expert on
removing obstacles related to bad timing based on bad dates and negative
planetary alignments!
Whenever you are
officiating the launch of your business, products, weddings and births, display
Dringzangma together with her four other sisters.
Drinzingma brings
awesome good luck and guards the West location!
TAYKAR DROZANGMA (གཏལ་དཀར་འགྲོ་བཟང་མ)-GODDESS OF LONG LIFE.
Drozangma is the
green long life sister who increases one's inner vitality, regeneration and
life force.
She prevents
harmful nagas from stealing away one's life force or causing diseases.
Drozangma rides a
female Turquoise Green Dragon while holding Durva grass on one hand, and a
snake noose on the other.
She commands all
minor naga spirits and exercises influence over the elements.
She protects
against natural disasters, epidemics and contagious diseases. Drozangma guards
from her palace in the North.
Origin of five long Life Sisters.
These five sisters
together are known as the Five Long-life Sisters.
They are Tibetan
mountain spirits living on the Tibet-Nepal border belong to the special class
of worldly deities. Subjugated by Guru Rinpoche in the 8th century they became vowed
protectors for Buddhism.
They traveled to
India and received further Buddhist instruction in the 'Dark Noisy' charnel
ground from the teacher 'Lobpon Chog gyi Gocha' and mahasiddha Kanha.
In the 11th
century, wishing to test the resolve of the great yogi Milarepa they created
apparitions for the purpose of distracting him from meditation.
Unable to cause any
real harm due to the vows made to Guru Rinpoche they failed and three days
later returned and humbled themselves before the yogi Milarepa.
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Again vowing to
protect the Buddhist Dharma they offered up their life-essence in the form of
mantras.
Requesting
teachings, he bestowed the 'Enlightenment Thought,' and various Vajrayana
practices along with candali and mudra yoga; the two special practices of the
Hevajra Tantra.
Some months later,
at the same location, the Tseringma sisters returned and requested detailed
instructions on the practice of 'Karma mudra' which Milarepa consented to give.
These are the three
encounters between Milarepa and Tseringma. From the students of Milarepa arose
many diverse lineages of practice, which have permeated through all the schools
of Tibetan Buddhism down to the present day.
Sacred Places of Tseringma in Bhutan
The Paro valley is
said to be particularly prosperous, as there are dwelling places of each of the
five Tseringma sisters there:
1. Tashi
Tsheringma, riding on a lioness resides in Drangje Gönpa at the centre;
2. Thinggi Zhalzangma, riding on a mare resides in Ramna Temple to the east;
3. Miyo Langzangma, riding on a tigress, in Tengchen Gönpa to the south;
4. Chodpan Drinzangma, riding on a doe, in Dzongdrakha to the west; and
5. Taykar Drozangma, riding a turquoise dragon, in Gangteng Temple to the north.
2. Thinggi Zhalzangma, riding on a mare resides in Ramna Temple to the east;
3. Miyo Langzangma, riding on a tigress, in Tengchen Gönpa to the south;
4. Chodpan Drinzangma, riding on a doe, in Dzongdrakha to the west; and
5. Taykar Drozangma, riding a turquoise dragon, in Gangteng Temple to the north.
Local people believe
that if a person goes on a pilgrimage and visits all five of these sacred sites
in a single day they will obtain the blessing of wealth and good fortune.
༄༅། །ཞིང་སྐྱོང་སྨན་བཙུན་མཆེད་ལྔའི་གསོལ་ཁ་ནི།
Offering
to the Five Medicine Sisters, Guardians of the Earth
by Mipham Rinpoche
ཧྲཱིཿ དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་ཡུམ་ཆེན་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ཌཱཀི་ལྔ། །
hrih, ying kyi yumchen lhenkyé daki nga
Hrīḥ! Five ḍākinīs who arise
simultaneously with the great Mother of Space,
ཞིང་སྐྱོང་སྨན་བཙུན་མཆེད་ལྔའི་ཚུལ་སྟོན་པའི། །
shyingkyong mentsün ché ngé tsul tönpé
Manifesting as the five medicine sisters,
guardians of the earth,
འབུམ་ཕྲག་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་འཁོར་དང་བཅས་པ་རྣམས། །
bumtrak khandrö khor dang chepa nam
Together with your retinue of hundreds of
thousands of ḍākinīs:
གསོལ་ལོ་མཆོད་དོ་བཅོལ་བའི་ཕྲིན་ལས་མཛོད། །
sol lo chö do cholwé trinlé dzö
We supplicate you! We make this offering
to you! Carry out the activities we request of you!
ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་པྲ་མོ་ཧ་བཾ་ཧ་རི་ནི་ས་མ་མ་ཌཱ་ཀི་ནཱི་བ་ལིངྟ་ཁཱ་ཧི།
om bendza tramo ha bam harinisa ma ma dakini balingta khahi
ཆུ་འབྲུག་ཟླ་བ་གཅིག་པའི་ཚེས་བཅུ་གསུམ་ལ་གྲངས་བསོག་དགོས་ཚེ་འཇམ་དཔལ་དགྱེས་པས་བྲིས་པའོ། །
Jampal
Gyepé Dorje wrote this on the thirteenth day of the first month of the Water
Dragon year (1892) when there was a need for a text to accompany the
accumulation of offerings.
