Lama Zopa Rinpoche - Vajra Armor Protection Wheel - Short Practice and Meditation eBook

Anyone can do this practice. However, you are permitted to generate yourself as Vajrapani only if you have received:

• the initiation (wang) of this aspect of Vajrapani
• or the initiation of any deity of performance, yoga, or highest yoga tantra and the subsequent permission (jenang) of Vajrapani
• or the initiation of any deity of the tathagata or vajra types of action tantra and the subsequent permission of Vajrapani

Otherwise, you should visualize Vajrapani above your head or in front of you.

The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Practice Series is a special collection of practice materials that serves to present and preserve Rinpoche's practice lineage, oral instructions, and translations.

Comments by the compiler or editor are contained in instruction boxes. For example:

Instructions or advice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche are marked by the symbol . For example:

Italics and a small font size indicate instructions and comments found in the Tibetan text. Words in square brackets have been added by the translator for clarification. For example:

[Herein is the Vajra Armor Protection Wheel meditation and recitation:]

H VAJRA PHA / O PADMAHAVARI PHA / NN PAR SHIG / NGANAN / TADYATH / SARVAVIRITA / HANA HANA / VAJRENA RAKHA RAKHA SVH

Recite this as many times as possible. At the end of the recitation, [blow on] water to bless it. Then, drink and anoint yourself with it.

In your daily practice, blow into your nostrils.

At the conclusion of the session, think that all disease and spirit harms are totally destroyed. Then, abide for a while in the state of meditation on the actual mode of existence [emptiness], beyond what is to be protected and what protects [conventional truth]. While empty, one arises again as the deity's holy body.

Then, make dedication prayers and prayers of auspiciousness.

This text was extracted by Jana from the Most Wrathful Chakra of Protecting the Root Attainment for the purpose of use in daily practice.

Original Colophon:
The dedications were composed by the one with the name of Thubten Zopa for the sake of [making] the freedoms and richnesses meaningful.

Publisher's Colophon:
Initially translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, March 2003, and scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett. Edited by Kendall Magnussen, August 2011, relying on a similar translation by Ven. Thubten Pemba, May 2009. The last three dedication verses translated by Fabrizio Champa Pelgye, 2014. Mantra transliterated by Ven. Tenzin Tsomo and Joona Repo, FPMT Education Services, May 2019. Reviewed by Joona Repo, FPMT Translation Services, August 2019.

I take refuge until I am enlightened
In the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly.
By my merits of generosity and so forth,
May I become a buddha to benefit transmigratory beings. (3x)

Determined to obtain the greatest possible benefit
From all sentient beings,
Who are more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel,
I hold them most dear at all times.

Wherever I am and whoever I am with,
I always consider myself the lowest of all
And from the depths of my heart
Hold others dear and supreme.

In all actions, I examine my mental continuum
And the minute a delusion arises,
Since it endangers myself and others,
I forcefully confront and avert it.

Whenever I see sentient beings who are wicked in nature
And overwhelmed by negative actions and heavy suffering,
I hold such rare ones dear,
As if I had found a precious treasure.

When, out of envy, others mistreat me
With abuse, insults, or the like,
I accept defeat
And offer the victory to them.

When someone whom I have benefited
And in whom I have great hope
Gives me terrible harm,
I regard them as my virtuous friend.