The Tantra of Vajrapani Bhutadamara

འབྱུང་པོ་འདུལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།

The Tantra of Vajrapani Bhutadamara

འབྱུང་པོ་འདུལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།

Chapter 28

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“The formula for dismissing the spirits after the bali offering:
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“Please go back quickly to your charnel grounds, shrines, mountain tops, or crossroads!
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“The formula for the spirits to guard their pledges:
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“Please keep your pledge!
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“The mantras for summoning all deities and male and female spirits are:
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“The reciter of Wrath is himself commanding you, please leave your terrible places! Svāhā! Oṁ, unfailing vajra hook! Act, act! Pull, pull! Hūṁ jaḥ!
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“And:
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“ Oṁ, fierce Wrath with an unfailing hook—act, act! Make such-and-such enter, do it! Hrīḥ, hūṁ, jaḥ!
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“The mudrā of the hook:
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“One should join both index fingers so that they form the shape of a hook.
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“One should offer a bali after incanting it with the following mantra three or seven times:
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“ Oṁ, Vajra Wrath! Please take this bali! Hūṁ, phaṭ!
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“One should then recite:
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“ Oṁ, hrīḥ! To Bhūtaḍāmara, the great vajra! Hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ! Ślūṃ ślūṃ! Hūṁ hūṁ! Phaṭ phaṭ! Svāhā! May the servant beings take whatever bali is available, body, speech, and mind! Svāhā!
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“The eighteen types of emptiness:
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1. Internal emptiness
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2. External emptiness
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3. Internal and external emptiness
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4. Emptiness of emptiness
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5. Great emptiness
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6. Emptiness of the absolute truth
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7. Emptiness of conditioned phenomena
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8. Emptiness of unconditioned phenomena
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9. Emptiness that is beyond extremes
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10. Emptiness of that which is beginningless and endless
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11. Emptiness of that which cannot be repudiated
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12. Fundamental emptiness
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13. Emptiness of all phenomena
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14. Emptiness of individual characteristics
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15. Emptiness of that which cannot be apprehended
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16. Emptiness of that which has its own nature
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17. Emptiness of that which does not have its own nature
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18. Emptiness of that which has and does not have its own nature
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“The eight bhūtas are:
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“The bhūta-king Aparājita, As well as Ajita and Pūraṇa; The wild and fierce Āpūraṇa And the great Śmaśānādhipati.
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“Kuleśvara, Bhūteśa, and also Kiṃkarottama who carries out one’s orders. In the tantra of Ḍāmara, These eight great beings are called ‘servants.’ ”
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The Tathāgata has explained the causes of those phenomena that arise based on causes. The great monk also explained that which constitutes their cessation.

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