The Life of Padmasambhava by Taranatha Kunga Nyingpo

Author:Taranatha, Kunga Nyingpo [Taranatha, Kunga Nyingpo]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2012-02-09T02:00:00+00:00

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In the middle of the ocean there is a small island, named Damidodvipa that one can reach from southern India by sailing straight towards the west. It was once called Damido, in Tibetan Droding, because it was inhabited by Rakshasas and Dakinis, beings who fly in the sky.[207] At that time most of the local women practised various mantras of evil Dakinis, and so they were called ngagchangmas.[208] There were also many male spirits, who had taken human form. Padmasambhava, wanting to tame these local inhabitants, settled in a cave on the island. He meditated and with the power of his concentration he subdued the sixty-four mamos, rulers of the country, who were magical emanations of the sixty-four ngagchangmas, wives of the king. He tormented them with mantras and mudras of wrathful actions, so that they fell to the ground, losing consciousness and becoming rigid, then he struck their hearts and made them feel some very powerful sensation. He threatened them, saying, “Now I’m going to burn you in the sangkhang!”[209] So they promised - having been subdued by then - to obey everything the Master ordered them to do. All of the other main ngagchangmas joined them and the Master, after having assembled them, explained the Dharma to them, in this way accomplishing its first diffusion.

On one occasion the Master went into town and saw that many ngagchangmas were taking away some men, to devour them. So once again he built a big mandala of the wrathful deities in a cave. Having made all the ngagchangmas completely powerless, he threatened them, and when they tried to escape he stabbed their limbs with purbus. Later on they swore that they would not try to harm the men anymore. He made them take a semkyed,[210] in this way accomplishing the second diffusion of the teaching.

Another time, arriving at an inn, he saw many women, who were boiling water in their pots: some of them were transmuting it into blood, others into fat, others into semen, others into human flesh, or liquid butter, molasses, boiled wheat, beer. He asked them what they were doing and, not recognizing the Master, they replied, “We are taking the body-substances of the men and the substances of food.” The Master asked, “Did you take an oath with Master Padma Akara or not?” They answered, “The most important of us did, but we didn’t”.

Again, in the same cave as before and with the same mandala, he is said to have summoned one million two hundred thousand ngagchangmas all at once: the main ones and their retinues. He took possession of the life-mantra and ritual of evocation of each of them and bound the main ones to the mandala, imposing a semkyed on the others. Binding all of them under an oath, in this way he accomplished the third diffusion of the Dharma.

He also subdued the wrathful Yakshasas, Rakshasas and Nagas of the country. There was a Preta[211] called Parbara who was the very evil polha[212]

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