Journey to Realms Beyond Death
[p. 141, n. 14 rN~in-ma / Sa-skya]
pp. 1-32 Tamra-varn.a (copper-colored) mountain
p. |
deities |
their interaction with authoress |
result |
2 |
the 3 sistren of broken samaya |
held black banner; attempted to loop a. with noose; struck a. with skein of colored wool |
kanadava medicine |
9 |
an escort of 4 young women |
these 4 bone-ornament-adorned d.akini-s placed a. in a red-and-white litter (palanquin), ae:rial [vimana] |
thus a. was transported to Camara |
10 |
woman gate-keeperess |
into temple at copper-colored mountain on Camara |
opened quartz door |
11 |
regent |
telling 108 beads of rosary |
feast |
12 |
d.akini |
she bathed a. |
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master |
silent (muni) |
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13 |
girl doorkeeperess |
to Antarabhava after Death: green bolsters, blue hair-binding ribbons |
incense for d.akini |
old woman |
exhaled water-snakes, frogs, fishes |
bone rosary |
|
14 |
white d.akini |
with 7 attendant d.akini-s |
singing |
d.akini |
guru-principle celebration |
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15 |
dark-purple yogi |
with 6 black-cloaked attendants |
scowling |
white woman gatekeeperess |
to orange mansion with red throne of queen |
arrow-bundle |
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17 |
white woman |
in white brocade skirt, red rosary |
white arrow |
20 |
white-haired white woman |
toothy Goddess with Power over Longevity |
6-faceted crystal |
21 |
Padma-sambhava |
wearing maroon cloak |
trident |
22 |
male guide; dark-blue d.akini |
to the right of P-S; holding hand-drum |
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dark-blue male adept |
with 4 red d.akini-s |
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23 |
d.aka-s [Caran.a-s?] |
wearing hats of peacock-feathers |
music instruments |
26 |
d.akini |
quartz mansion with 8 turquoise dragons holding gems in their claws |
peafowl-call |
27 |
guru |
Charnel Ground of Erupting Volcanoes: "do not write these things down ..."! |
a. is re-named "lamp" |
pp. 27-31 return journey, re-tracing same way back
pp. 16 (& 29) -- 12 each, sets of women as gatekeeperesses of the 4 doors
direction of door |
substance composing their bodies |
east |
quartz |
south |
gold |
west |
ruby (p. 16) or coral (p. 29) |
north |
turquoise |
p. 37 -- 5 paths
color of path |
to __ |
of __ |
white |
bliss-realm |
Amita-abha |
red |
Camara |
Padma-sambhava |
blue |
Potala |
Ava-lokita-is`vara |
green |
"Yulokod" |
+Tara |
yellow |
flower-realm |
"Jampa Gonpo" |
pp. 36-99 reflections in the crystal mirror
p. |
deities |
their interaction with authoress |
result |
40 |
the dead |
river of the dead, crossed by 6-arched bridge |
beribboned arrow |
41 |
black giants |
heated iron as ground |
din of cries |
Dharma-raja |
seated on iron throne, he is warty-faced, holding crosshatched board of fate |
a. is acquitted |
|
44 |
snake-enwrapped girl |
reaping barley |
laughter |
45 |
girl under iron sieve |
she flirted with monks |
freed |
47 |
Preta-s |
stole from guardians |
spittle |
48 |
Asura-s = "aristocrats" |
a. dashed bird's egg on ground |
had died by the knife |
old god |
actually see the place of their future rebirth |
blossoms were scattered on him |
|
49 |
miser |
gossipmongering |
repose |
50 |
monks |
flames from their mouths |
vile language |
51 |
pilgrim |
pilgrimages |
prayer flag |
52 |
chained |
in 6-arched bridge over river of the dead |
smoke |
53 |
deer hunter |
in the Reviving Hell |
carved in stone |
in the Black Thread Hell |
recitations |
||
suffering on mountain-top |
fasting |
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55 |
man with head of red bull {= Minotauros?} |
80,000 leagues beyond, cliff-face of dark-red rock |
sound of his tongue hitting his palate |
56 |
master-guide |
white-clad; turned prayer-wheel; his feet did not touch the ground |
crystal palaces |
57 |
iron birds plucking out eyen of victims |
fearsome women embracing and then tearing off heads of the victims who came when called to them {cf. +Seirenes} |
s`almali tree |
58 |
man encased in iron suit |
3 stag-headed denizens wield razors |
gave message to bring back |
59 |
bla-ma |
led 1,000 along pathway of white light |
|
nun |
led 1,000 along pathway of blue light |
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old woman |
Crushing Hell |
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61 |
middle-aged woman |
with 2 small children of her karma -- the fair-colored one had nothing to say |
was weighed in balance for souls |
62 |
evil man |
he had cut lips & noses |
10,000 kalpa-s |
63 |
hunter |
4 stag-headed denizens |
karma-child wept |
64 |
woman |
with 2 small children of her karma -- the dark one said she had starved calves |
12,000 years drinking metal |
66 |
old woman |
led 1,500 westward to Realm of Bliss |
not alone |
67 |
man |
wearing marmot-skins |
hibernating |
68 |
12 monks from Sa-skya |
asked not to prostrate selves; led 12,000 westward to Realm of Bliss |
minions in awe of them |
nun |
led 3,000 to Copper-Colored Mt. |
2 accumulations |
|
69 |
monk |
the 2 karma-children disagreed about him |
s`almali trees |
70 |
religious woman |
mixture of good and bad |
1,000 months in Reviving Hell |
71 |
general |
in Crushing Hell |
corals hidden |
military commander |
was sliced to pieces and the pieces rejoined |
1,000 kalpa-s |
|
72 |
haeretic man |
no concern with future |
Howling Hell |
74 |
men |
crushed between 2 mountains |
killed fleas |
77 |
butcher |
Intense-Heat Hell |
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mother & daughter |
their backs were weighted down with boulders |
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78 |
white-clad bla-ma |
led eloped ex-consort of bla-ma along pathway of white light |
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12 poachers |
Intense-Heat Hell |
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79 |
4 butchers |
were led to Mt. Potala |
|
82 |
misappropriators |
in Hell of Constant Torment |
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white-robed lay tantrika-s |
were being devoured |
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85 |
bla-ma-s |
18 copper cauldrons were turned mouth-downward |
no backsliding |
mendicant on rainbow |
saw Dharma-raja to be Samanta-bhadra |
moonbeam from his heart |
|
86 |
radiant mendicant |
led 20,000 people to Copper-Colored Mt. |
light flooded the 18 hell-realms |
87 |
robber |
had stolen bodhi-seed rosary |
|
88 |
faking reader |
his tongue was torn out and it was being ploughed |
|
9 men |
were not aware that they had died |
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89 |
100 monks |
had not confessed sins at samaya |
wear hot iron |
householder old man |
turned silver prayer-wheel |
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90 |
bla-ma |
acting crazy, holding bone rosary |
|
patron |
proclaiming: "__ knoweth all"! |
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man |
in Reviving Hell |
vanishing |
|
owl-headed denizen of hell |
copper knife |
smiling |
|
91 |
old woman |
was beaten by mole-headed denizen |
7 lifetimes |
92 |
blasphemer |
his tongue was filled with iron spikes |
|
incendiary |
was scorched |
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consort of bla-ma |
because she had poisoned him, her tears fell like rainfall {cf. tears of +Isis} |
thundering |
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7 men & their wives |
the men were hooked by horns of yaks made of iron; molten metal was being poured into the mouths of their wives, "so that from all their orifices red tongues of flame blazed forth." [their orifices being tongued?] |
p. 76 Dharma-raja said: there is no "high" nor "low" person {God is no respecter of persons}
p. 124 -- karandatava tree composed of pretious substances
tree-part |
substance |
roots |
gold |
trunk |
silver |
branches |
sapphire |
leaves |
amber |
flowers |
ruby |
fruit |
diamonds |
p. 131 -- 7 animal-headed minions within fortress of skulls. p. 42 the same, around Yama
head (animalian) |
accomplishment of minion |
p. 42 direction |
p. 42 character |
ox |
reading karmic scroll-records |
4. left |
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lion |
beating drum of karmic justice |
2. right |
pride |
serpent |
divining in mirror |
1. front |
malevolence |
stag |
laying out the rack |
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red snow-bear |
polishing weapons |
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monkey |
measuring with the balance |
3. behind |
destiny |
bear |
distinguishing virtuous actions from harmful ones |
Delog Dawa Drolma (translated from the Tibetan by Richard Barron): Journey to Realms Beyond Death. Padma Publishing, Junction City (CA), 1995.