The Pema Yoedling Vajrakilaya monastery was envisaged as a spiritual centre dedicated to the study and practice of the Vajrakilaya tradition. The monastery provides a central environment for senior practitioners to deepen their practice and understanding, and to recruit new students and monks from all parts of Bhutan.
Since the project commenced, five Vajrakilaya intensive practice sessions marked an auspicious beginning, drawing the active participation of about 5,000 people. Lama Jamyang, a senior lama of the Jangsa community, who was Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche’s own former master of ceremonies, has foretold such beginnings.
The monastery will conduct annual Vajrakilaya drubchens. The Vajrakilaya drubchen 2010 recently concluded on Lhabhab Duchen. The drubchen is an intensive and elaborate ritual ceremony that includes the making and distribution of consecrated dharma medicinal pills, in accordance with the special techniques and practices taught in the Nyingma tantras.
Vajrakilaya is the most important “yidam” or tantric wisdom deity of the Nyingma tradition. In spiritual histories, Vajrakilaya was the preeminent deity of Guru Rinpoche and Khandro Lady Yeshe Tsogyal is famed for attaining enlightenment through the Vajrakilaya practice. As a wisdom deity, Vajrakilaya transverses the full path to enlightenment and creates auspicious conditions for the progress, deepening and fulfilment of spiritual practice. The special quality of Vajrakilaya is the ability to clear away obstacles and to transform all the emotional afflictions; and especially the most destructive emotion of hatred, into enlightened wisdom and compassion.
Lama Kunzang Dorjee has designed the layout for the assembly hall to house a Vajrakilaya statue in the centre of the shrine, with all the deities of his retinue. They will be surrounded by statues of the other members of the group of the eight most special Nyingma deities for spiritual transformation (the sgrub-pa bka’-brgyad). A Guru Rinpoche image will be placed in front, with his retinue of the five wisdom dakinis, and the eight emanations of Guru Rinpoche (guru mtshan brgyad). The shrine to the right will have a statue of the Buddha Sakyamuni, along with the eight great bodhisattvas. The wall painting on the right will illustrate the Great Deeds of the Buddha’s life. The left hand shrine will feature images of the eight vidyadharas or bearers of pure awareness, depicted in heruka style, with the Khandro Lé-kyi Ong-mo (Las kyi dbang mo), Queen of Action, in the centre.
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