MY PERSONAL STATUE OF SACRED VAJRA YOGINI
I have always wanted a large statue of Vajra Yogini.
So last year I had Kechara Discovery Dept (KD) create a 5ft Vajra Yogini according to my specifications. They did a great job.
When the sacred statue arrived here, I had Kechara Saraswati Arts Dept of KH or KSA* offer the gold on her face in traditional style, jewels, adornments, silks on Her sacred body.
I have one here in Kuala Lumpur Ladrang, in Nepal Ladrang and also in Kechara Lounge* in Kathmandu. Kechara Lounge is our beautiful information centre we have created re the twelve depts. It is situated in front of the sacred Bodha Stupa in Kathmandu (See kechara website for more details).
Some of my students here have also decided to order and invite Her to their homes.
She is absolutely stunning and takes the centre of my private altar.
Everyday offerings are made to Her holy presence in order to generate the merits for the manifestation of TKL**, the growth of Her tantra and that we may gain Her attainments.
I really love this beautiful image of the Powerful Yidam Vajra Yogini. This is the picture of the actual statue on my personal shrine.
I recommend everyone to get one for their centre or home. It is a wonderful gift to a centre where everyone can be blessed by Her. What a wonderful representation of enlightenment to have in your home.
Praise to Sacred and Mystical Mother Vajra Yogini.
Humbly,
Tsem Tulku
*Kechara Discovery (KD), Kechara Saraswati Arts Dept (KSA), Tsem Kacho Ling (TKL), Kechara Lounge (KL) are part of the 12 depts we have in Kechara House (KH). Kechara House is the name of my centre here in Kuala Lumpur. For more information please go to : www.kechara.com
**TKL or Tsem Kacho Ling is the huge retreat centre we will be building in the mountains in the near future. It will have many activities including Yoga classes, Art classes, Philosophy studies, and intensive retreats to name a few. It will be a learning centre for all types of healing arts.
My obeisance to Vajra Yogini. Dance on me sometimes and set me free
. Thank you – wunderful picture.
It shocks me a little to go into Rinpoche’s audience room and see the Buddhas because they sometimes look like little (or big) real people painted in gold and sitting on the altar (like the painted people you see in places like Covent Garden in London).
It is said that when practitioners are very sincere and have developed great compassion and attainments by their practice, their statues will come alive, look bright, real, luminous – you can tell the level and sincerity of someone’s practice just be looking at their statues.
This is definitely true of Rinpoche’s own statues – how stunning they are, every single one of them. Vajrayogini comes to Rinpoche just as a statue, and within a few days, the statue starts looking as if some real lady painted herself in gold and sprung up on his altar. In Rinpoche’s ladrang, the statues aren’t just copper and gold – I believe they are the Buddhas themselves.
You expect Vajrayogini to tilt her head at you when no one else is looking… and wink!
As long as I have known Rinpoche, he has always had a Vajrayogini altar near him. It first started with a 17in statue, which was given to Rinpoche in Bodh Gaya, followed by a 3ft one from India and most recently, this 5foot one designed and made by Kechara Discovery.
It was the advice of one of his Gurus, that Rinpoche should always keep a Vajrayogini close to him. So there is another 5ft Vajrayogini in Tsem Ladrang Kathmandu for this purpose. Wherever the ladrang is, offerings are made daily to Vajrayogini, to collect merit for the growth of the organisation.
My personal favourite Vajrayogini is the one on Rinpoche’s personal altar – she looks so much more alive now and I believe that Vajrayogini herself resides in there.
The few statues that Rinpoche has offered to put in Kechara Paradise outlets (http://www.kechara.com/shopping/locations/) for all the people to come and make offerings are truly BEAUTIFUL and of course SPECIAL. Rinpoche’s personal statues are one of a kind with beautiful beadings, jeweleries and silk brocades offered and done by Rinpoche. Kechara used to have the statues sent abroad to have mantra insertions, sewing, painting, beading and it took quite some time for it to return. Communications, of course wasn’t as easy as talking face to face as to how we wanted it done hence Kechara Saraswati Art (http://www.kechara.com/arts/) was born under the guidance of Rinpoche.
I had the chance to see the Vajrayogini statue in Bodghaya’s Kechara Lounge (http://www.kechara.com/lounge/) when a group of us from Kechara Paradise outlets were on a shopping trip to Nepal. How lucky!
This is one of my favourite statues of Vajrayogini. I first saw her in this beautiful form when I was in Kechara Lounge in February-March 2010. She stands taller than me, and far more graceful! Paul from Kechara Discovery did an excellent job making the statue – she looks incredibly life-like, as though she’s ready to step forth at any time to blast away our delusions!
All of this is practice for the bigger picture, you know! It all happens in steps, as Rinpoche has so kindly planned. First, small statues for Kechara Paradise…then larger ones for Tsem Ladrang and Kechara Lounge…next, even bigger ones for the new Kechara gompa and finally, the world’s largest indoor Tsongkhapa at Kechara World Peace Centre, ready to bless all Malaysians and everyone else who lays their eyes upon him!
Can you imagine, if we never had this type of training??? Imagine building that Tsongkhapa as a first statue…we’d never be able to handle it!!!
That’s one thing about Rinpoche’s Vajrayogini, it keeps growing. Rinpoche has quite a lot of very sacred images of this amazing Buddha. There is one old statue made in Delhi that was offered by a Malaysian monk many years ago in Bodhgaya. That statue still rests on Rinpoche’s altar filled with garlands of pearls and other jewels. She is very sacred because this image of Vajrayogini marks the first contact Rinpoche had with Malaysia. We are very fortunate because it was because of this Malaysian monk called Reverend Khoon that Rinpoche is walking and teaching amongst us.
The other image of Vajrayogini is an amazing little statue that is an antique piece given by Rinpoche’s father Lobsang Gyatso. It is apparently part of the original statues of Tashilhumpo monastery that was brought out of Tibet. It is highly refined with its ornaments removeable and exquisitely crafted. This statue is rather small about around 8-9 inches but with a lot of refined details. It could easily be part of an antique statue collection but are highly charged with Rinpoche’s meditations, offerings and devotion. This makes the statues so alive that they could almost burst out in a divine dance.
The Vajrayogini statue on Rinpoche’s personal altar is one of my favourite! She looks so alive and graceful.
I first set eye on sacred Vajrayogini statue when I visited Kechara Paradise (http://www.kechara.com/shopping/). During that time, Kechara House was closed and pujas were held at Kechara Paradise in SS2. Since the first link was made, I seem to gain more opportunity to connect with Vajrayogini.
The first ever Vajrayogini tsok that I attended was at one of our member’s house where she had converted her attic into a Vajrayogini chapel, an idea inspired by her visit to Kathmandu holy Vajrayogini chapel led by none other than Tsem Rinpoche.
It was during this blessing of the chapel that I attempted to make my first set of torma offering to Mother Queen Vajrayogini, it turned out I had gotten the colour wrong! It was supposed to be red! Rinpoche then said that Vajarayogini wanted to have different ‘flavour’.. hehe
Vajrayogini has always been mystical to me, a beautiful and powerful naked lady in red, cutting of our desire, illusion and lust! There is something about this mother of queen that attracts me to her.
May I have the merit to receive her practice in the future!
This is the most beautiful Buddha statue I’ve ever gazed upon, and of course it is none other then Vajrayogini! But this particular statue, when it first came to Rinpoche’s Ladrang all painted and done, is so alive. She really looks alive and yes they say the more you do your prayers, the more your statue’s feature will change and some even glow. Well, this Vajrayogin statue actually looks like she will turn and talk to you! She is the queen of all desires and samsara, taking away all your pain and suffering of this world.
She is on Rinpoche’s personal altar and everyday we make offerings to Vajrayogini on behalf of the whole Kechara organisation. Also every gift and offering that people make to Rinpoche is offered up to Vajrayogini so that they may receive her blessings and merits. I want one!!!
I want one too! I don’t know much about Vajrayogini, but somehow I have always been more attracted to the representation of the female form rather than the male form. Am I saying what I am really saying? But it’s really true. The female form has such captivating beauty that draws you towards them. Somehow, she looks very much like a beautiful vampire. Very alluring, beautiful and mysterious. Maybe that is why she is the queen of all desires and samsara.
She must be very special to Rinpoche for having her in Rinpoche’s altar and for a Vajrayogini coffee table book to be produced. (http://www.kechara.com/publications/publications/vajra-series/vajrayogini-and-other-sacred-power-places-in-nepal/) I would love to study the iconology of Vajrayogini. Must be most interesting to know the meanings – especially the fangs.
This 5ft Vajrayogini statue created by Kechara Discovery is spectacular! She looks alive especially after Kechara Saraswati Arts department offered gold on her face, drew her eyes, eyebrows and mouth.
When 2 of this statue arrived in Kathmandu, we had so much trouble with the customs. After days of negotiations, we finally invited them to Tsem Ladrang, Kathmandu and Kechara Lounge, Kathmandu. At the same time, a few of Rinpoche’s students were visiting and staying with us in Tsem Ladrang. Rinpoche gave all of us a retreat of making jewelry offerings to Vajrayogini. It was a lot of fun!
We all went shopping for various sizes of pearls, turquoise and corals in Boudha, where Kechara Lounge is situated. And for the rest of the 5 days, we adorned her earrings, crown, wrists and ankles with jewelry. We also made pearl skirts and shawls with the guidiance of Julia, one of Rinpoche’s student who’s a jeweller by profession.
Irregardless of load shedding at night, we would still continue working with limited lighting powered by a generator. We shared stories and jokes and laughed till we teared. It felt like we were back in school during summer camp. What a wonderful retreat! When all the jewellery were completed, we offered them up to Vajrayogini! May all of us have the merits to receive her practice and gain her attainments! Thank you Rinpoche for the amazing opportunity!
Ven. Rinpoche, I am sure You have heard about this many times, but really it is the MOST PRETTY statue I have ever seen… Thank You for sharing this photo.
Konstantina
Dear Ven. Rinpoche,
I’m Indonesian… This morning I have a really strange dream. I was dreaming about a cave -it’s like I’m having a pilgrimage to some place I’ve never seen. I arrived at a small rocky cave and I saw an altar with offering on it. suddenly something came down from the sky and I saw a leg a pale blue leg. It’s a female creature looks like human but she got a blue skin. She wear long necklace and she has a very beautiful long black hair. I didn’t see too much about her face but for sure, she got fangs. I fell in peace and then suddenly she transformed to shapes. Lots of heads and bodies.
When I woke up, I went straight to my computer and seacrh in google. I found Dakini. Blue Dakini called Nairatmya. Then I found your blog and facebook, thanks to Google
. This so strange for me because I never learn any Tantra and I didn’t read books or see any paintings before I went to bed. So my question is there any meaning from my dream (I know it sounds like a stupid question, but it’s just my curiosity)?
Thanks for your attention, Rinpoche. Namo Buddhaya.. _/|\_