Invocation

True words of the venerable Gurus! True words of the Buddhas! True words of the Dharma! True words of the Sangha! True words of the deities of the yidams mandala! True words of the ones with the wisdom eye! True words of the dharmapalas, True words of the Wisdom dakini Senghe Dongma, And all the innumerable dakinis! With the blessings of all the great truths We, the yogis, address all the hindering spirits and all disturbances to send them back: Return to your places! (clap with your hands) Disappear! (clap) Become void! (clap)

Dedication
as in main sadhana.

Sadhana of the
(Simhamukha Senghe Dongma)
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Lion-Headed Dakini

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From the state of voidness, from AH comes a vast and expansive skullcup within which from the letters OM AH HUM arises the torma, a great ocean of nectar marked by the three letters OM AH HUM. Light radiates from the syllables and hooks the exalted wisdom nectars, which absorb into the three syllables. They melt into a great inexhaustible ocean of nectar. OM AH HUM HA HO HRIH (3x) Invoke the wisdom beings as above. Then offer the torma as follows: To the principal dakini: OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI IDAM BALIMTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI SVAHA (3 - 7x) To the retinue: OM AH KARO MU KHAM SARVA DHARMA NAM ADYANUTPAN NA TVATA NAMA SARVA TATHAGATA AVALOKITE OM SAMBHARA SAMBHARA HUM( 3 - 7x)

Offerings
OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI SAPARIVARA BHYA ARGHAM to SHABDA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA OM SINGHA MUKHA DAKINI SAPARIVARA BHYA OM AH HUM

Simhamukha Dogpa
Praise
PALDEN DORJE KHANDROMA KHANDRO MAYE KORLO GYUR YESHE NGATHANG KHUSUM NYE DROWA KYOB LA SHAG TSEL LO Glorious vajra dakini, Ruler of the dakinis, Who found the ve wisdoms and the three kayas: Homage to the refuge of migrators!

Colophon:
This sadhana was compiled and translated by Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche from the Grub thabs Kun btus (Collected Sadhanas) Vol. NYA (VIII), folios 293 - 296 and other traditional sources. The text was slightly edited and reformatted by Wolfgang Saumweber in July 2002; rev 2/2004. 2004 Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center & Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche

Mantra Recitation
Recite the mantra as much as you can: AH KA SA MA RA TSA SHA DA RA SA MA RA YA PHAT

Mantra Recitation
In the center of my heart, residing on a sun-mandala, stands a dark-blue HUM, surrounded by the mantra syllables arranged counter-clockwise. The ames coming from the mantra garland incinerate all maras. Thinking that recite the mantra: AH KA SA MA RA TSA SHA DA RA SA MA RA YA PHAT

Sadhana of the Blue Lion-headed Dakini

A Sakya Golden Dharma

Refuge and Bodhichitta

I go for refuge until I am enlightened To the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly. By this practice of giving and other perfections, May I become a buddha in order to benet all sentient beings. (3x)

Recite as much as you can.

Requesting Prayer & Dissolution

Dakini Simhamukha Please bestow The common and uncommon siddhis Upon me and all sentient being. This requested, the lotus seat and sun-mandala are absorbed into me in the form of light.

Invocation
Instantly I arise as the dakini Simhamukha. At my heart, on a lotus and sunmandala is a dark-blue HUM. From it rays of light shine forth invoking the Guru and the dakini Simhamukha who is summoned by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. OM VAJRA SAMADZAH

Offerings
Make offerings with: OM VAJRA ARGHAM AH HUM OM VAJRA PADYAM AH HUM OM VAJRA PUSHPE AH HUM OM VAJRA DHUPE AH HUM OM VAJRA ALOKE AH HUM OM VAJRA GANDHE AH HUM OM VAJRA NEVIDIYE AH HUM OM VAJRA SHABDA AH HUM

Dedication
By the virtue of this May I and all sentient beings Accomplish the state of the dakini. Without leaving a single sentient being behind May I be able to liberate them To the state of the dakini.

Short Torma Offering

Make a torma in triangular shape (tetrahedron) and of red color. If you dont have that you may substitute it with an offering of red cookies are red fruit. Bless the inner offering with OM VAJRA AMRITA KUNDALI HANA HANA HUM PHAT Sprinkle the torma with it to dispel hindrances. Then purify them into voidness: OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM
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Seven Limb Prayer

With my body, speech and mind, humbly I prostrate, And make offerings both set out and imagined. I declare my wrong deeds from all time, And rejoice in the virtues of all. Please stay until samsara ceases, And turn the wheel of Dharma for us. I dedicate all virtues to great enlightenment.

Four Immeasurables
May all sentient beings have happiness and its cause. May all sentient beings be free of suffering and its cause. May all sentient beings be inseparable from sorrowless bliss. May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free of bias, both greed and hatred.

I am in dancing posture with the left leg extended and the right one tucked in, surrounded by the blazing ames of the wisdom re. At my forehead is white OM, at my throat red AH, at my heart dark-blue HUM from which light rays spread forth summoning from Khechara, the place of heavenly enjoyment, the wisdom-being surrounded by all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. OM VAJRA SAMADZAH DZA HUM BAM HOH I become one with the wisdom beings. Then again from the HUM at the center of my heart, light rays shine forth summoning the ve Buddha families and their retinue. OM VAJRA SAMADZAH

Self-Generation
OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHAH SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA SHUDDHO HAM Everything becomes void. From the state of emptiness appears a syllable PAM which becomes a lotus, and a syllable RAM which becomes a sun, on top of which appears a HUM. From the HUM rays of light shine forth establishing the vajra-ground. Around it is a vajra-fence, and above it a vajra-tent, all surrounded by the blazing re of wisdom. In the center of the vajra-tent is the syllable EH which transforms into a dark-blue dharmakara (ch chung). In the center of the dharmakara is a lotus and a sun mandala. On top of the corpses of the Maras stands my mind in the form of a dark-blue HUM from which light rays emanate destroying all demons and gathering all the powers and accomplishments of the dakas and dakinis to be absorbed into the HUM. Due to that I myself arise out of the HUM as the wisdom dakini Simhamukha. My body is dark-blue in color with one face, two arms and three red rounded eyes. My mouth shows the bared fangs with the tongue curled upwards, looking extremely ferocious. In my right hand I am holding a vajra-handled curved knife (drigug) up in the air; in my left hand, at the heart level, I am holding a skullcup lled with blood. On my left shoulder leans a khatvanga with three points at its top. My hair, mustache and brows are yellow-red, streaming upwards. A crown of ve skulls adorns my head; a necklace made of fty freshly cut human heads, still dripping with blood, hangs around my neck. Wearing tiger-skin skirt I am ornated with the ve bone ornaments.
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Offerings
Make offerings to the ve Buddha families with: OM PANJA KULA SAPARIVARA ARGHAM, PADAM, PUSHPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, GHANDE, NAIVIDIYA, SHABDA PRATICCHA SVAHA

Empowerment
Then, the initiation is requested from them saying: Please bestow the empowerment on me. Then the tathagathas say: OM VAJRI BHAVA ABHISHEKATA SAMAYA HUM My whole body is lled with initiation water from the vase and is puried of all its delements. The water overowing the crown of my head is the totality of becoming, out of which appears a blue ve-pointed vajra to adorn the head.