Takla Mebar Healing Mantra
Full Moon Teaching
With Chaphur Rinpoche
November 8th, 2022, from 9am to 10am (PT)
In preparation for the upcoming Takla Mebar Retreat, December 1st – 31st, 2022, Chaphur Rinpoche will give teachings on the Takla Mebar Healing Mantra. He will also begin instructing us on the generation and completion stages of the Takla Mebar practice. In addition, Rinpoché will explain how these practices relate to tantric practices in the larger Bön Buddhist context. Following this teaching, students are encouraged to begin accumulating mantras in preparation for the December Takla Mebar Retreat.
Here is a short description of Takla Mebar:
In order to overcome the power of negative, external forces as well as personal, negative emotions, and the obstacles they create, Tonpa Shenrab Miwo manifested as Takla Mebar (the Flaming Tiger Deity). He then subjugated the powerful, negative forces through his compassionate, wisdom mind, and transformed them into kind and peaceful beings.
Takla Mebar heals the outer poisons by transforming them into wisdom and positive attributes. The inner negativities are transformed into the clarity of the Five Wisdoms: the wisdom of emptiness, mirror-like wisdom, the wisdom of equality or equanimity, discriminating wisdom, and all-accomplishing wisdom.
The Chaphur family has been the primary lineage holders of the Yidam Takla Mebar since the very beginning of their recorded family history. Please join us during the November Full Moon and begin to experience the many blessings that manifest from a strong connection with the Flaming Tiger Deity, Takla Mebar.
