About Hayagriva's Mantra

Hayagriva v4 (1001 x 1500)

ཨོཾ་ཧྲིཿཔདྨ་ཏན་ཀྲིད་བཛྲ་ཀྲོ་དྷ་ཧ་ཡ་གྲི་ལྦ་ཧུ་ལུ་ཧུ་ལུ་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཌ།

OSHRI PEMA TAHN DRIN BENZA TROH DHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUNG PHET

 

Hayagriva symbolizes enlightened speech, usually depicted as red in colour and with a horse’s head protruding from his crown. Hayagriva is one of the eight principal deities of Kagye where he is referred to as Lotus-like Speech. Hayagriva is a swift and powerful means to overcome negative forces and obstacles. Hayagriva has a specialty against countering Naga related problems and diseases.

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Secret Accomplishment Hayagriva

This particular six-armed red Hayagriva practice was discovered as a treasure teaching (terma) by Nyemo Tertön Sangye Wangchen (12th century) and Kyergangpa Chökyi Senge (1143-1216). Lama Kyergangpa was particularly devoted to the deity Hayagriva. Accordingly, in his dream practice, he visited the pure realm of Guru Padmasambhava repeatedly and received the full transmission of the “Secret Accomplishment Hayagriva.” As advised by Guru Rinpoche, he also requested these transmissions from a treasure revealer in Tibet, known as Nyemo Tertön. He greatly surprised the Tertön with his requests for this practice because the Tertön had kept his discovery of these teachings a complete secret. Two times the Tertön withheld some secret oral instructions, only to be asked specifically for them later. Thus it became apparent that Kyergangpa could only have been advised to ask for them by Guru Rinpoche in person. Kyergangpa spread this teaching among his students and it eventually became popular with several lineages. Though a teaching cycle of the treasure or terma tradition, most commonly associated with the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, it became popular predominantly with the Sarma schools.

 


Short Hayagriva Mantra

ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་ཀྲོ་ཏ་ཧྱ་གྲཱི་བ་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཌཿ

OM BENZAR TRODHA HAYAGRIVA HUNG PHET


 

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