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Dharma protectors within the Gelug Tradition
When I first began to practice, I didn’t get much exposure to Dharma protectors. As my practice continued, specifically within the Tibetan tradition, I started to see them everywhere.
Within texts like Mind Training: The Great Collection (Library of Tibetan Classics), petitioning Dharma protectors play an important role. And if one read’s Brilliant Moon: The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse, who was a great Nyingmapa practitioner, one can see how heavily they rely on Dharma protectors practice and their importance.
Origins of Dharma Protectors
There are generally two types of dharma protectors, mundane and supramundane. As is cited often in tradition, when Tibet was first receiving transmissions of the Dharma, there was much resistance. There was a lot of shamanism, animal sacrifice and spirit worship before Buddhism began to enter.
When Buddhism started to come, there was great resistance from the spirits because Buddhism’s appearance meant that the worldly spirits would have to leave or people would have to stop worshiping them. As a result, a type of spiritual war ensued between the great yogi Padmasambhava or also known as Guru Rinpoche, who was to subdue these spirits so the Dharma could spread.
http://clearemptymind.com/2011/05/05/dharma-protectors-within-the-gelug/
Within texts like Mind Training: The Great Collection (Library of Tibetan Classics), petitioning Dharma protectors play an important role. And if one read’s Brilliant Moon: The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse, who was a great Nyingmapa practitioner, one can see how heavily they rely on Dharma protectors practice and their importance.
Origins of Dharma Protectors
There are generally two types of dharma protectors, mundane and supramundane. As is cited often in tradition, when Tibet was first receiving transmissions of the Dharma, there was much resistance. There was a lot of shamanism, animal sacrifice and spirit worship before Buddhism began to enter.
When Buddhism started to come, there was great resistance from the spirits because Buddhism’s appearance meant that the worldly spirits would have to leave or people would have to stop worshiping them. As a result, a type of spiritual war ensued between the great yogi Padmasambhava or also known as Guru Rinpoche, who was to subdue these spirits so the Dharma could spread.
http://clearemptymind.com/2011/05/05/dharma-protectors-within-the-gelug/
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