Just to remind people of how Shugden practice should be: The following excerpt describes the macabre rGyalpo spirit Do rJe Shugs ldan, usually accompanied by ten armed youths (stag slrar bcu) as depicted on two posters displayed in New Kadampa centres worldwide.(translation by Rene de Nebesky-Wojkiwitz, Ph. D.) A great number of various objects and substances is offered to rDo rje shugs ldan at the time of his worship: heart-blood in which yellow-red bubbles rise one after the other, quivering flowers made out of the organs of the five senses, expanding clouds of smoke which rises from the burnt offering of white incense and the smouldering great meat; the fire of the lamp made of human fat and having a wick made of human hair. The strongly smelling liquid consisting of brain, blood, and bile, the heap of food composed of the organs of the five senses, hearts, meat, and bone; the pleasing offering of the sound of great trumpets, thighbone trumpets, and skull-drums. A great number of animals are sacrificed symbolically: the khyung, dragons, lions, elephants, mules and horses, wild yak, tame yak and hybrid yak, goats, sheep, Indian tigers, leopards, bear, hyenas, jackals,iong:tailed and grey-haired monkeys, wolves, wild boars, lynx, Manchurian tigers, stags, kyang, musk-deer, wild sheep, rhinos, dgo-antelopes, and other game; owls and screech-owls, crows, vultures, peacocks; parrots, cuckoos, mouse-hawks and falcons, raven, and domestic fowl. ...The precious apron made of human bone, the human corpse which serves as a carpet, a freshly drawn elephant-skin and a tiger-skin which serves as a loin-cloth; a divination-arrow, a skull-cup, a flat basin full of jewels, and a tshe bum. The black hat of a magician, a garment with long sleeves, jewels, snakes serving as bangles, ornaments made of human bone, leather boots, a girdle, a parasol decorated with silken tassels, a .. banner of victory. and the horse-trimmings. An armour consisting of a strong cuirass and a helmet made of thunderbolts whose brilliancy fills all quarters of the world, a sword, arrows, a battleaxe, and a knife. ...The gtor ma consisting of a heap of piled up meat and bone of slaughtered inimical obstacle-creating demons, and the disturbed seas of biood, beer, and Chinese tea which are offered as a drink. The offerings presented to rDo rje shugs ldan are to please his sense of seeing, one should offer: the light of the lamp nourished by human fat and having a wick made from the hair of a corpse. So, the question is: is this a demon or is it Modern Buddhism? (Taken from a post on YouTube)
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:34:55 +0000
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