Toh 1942A Yoginī Sādhana of the Vajra Ḍākinī
Pāli / Sanskrit:Vajraḍākinīyoginīsādhana
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Exposition: A Practice Manual of the Vajra Queen
Context
This work belongs to the Northern Transmission Tibetan Buddhist tradition, where vajra practices (Vajrayāna sādhana) are recorded in detail in the Tengyur, the collection of commentarial scriptures of the Buddha Dharma. This text is a sādhana (practice manual), a guide to Tantric practice intended for monastics or practitioners of suitable capacity who have received transmission from a worthy conferring teacher.
The Northern Transmission regards the queens of the Buddha Dharma (ḍākinīs) as symbols of transcendent wisdom (prajnaparamita) and the truth of emptiness (śūnyatā). The Vajra Ḍākinī in particular represents the mind’s power of immediate transformation, destroying ignorance and craving from the root. This text records a complete path of practice for directing the mind from the state of affliction into the luminous reality of the nature of mind.
Main Content
This sādhana guides the practitioner through many stages. First are the preliminary practices: gathering sincere, cool devotion, disclosing faults, and accumulating merit in order to purify the continuum of mind.
The second step is the generation stage: the practitioner imagines himself or herself dissolving into space, then arising as the pure form of the Vajra Queen. This image is not something substantially real, but a mental mathematical instrument for transforming perception. The queen appears with symbols of blazing heat, weapons (such as a sword and claws), and radiates newly brilliant light; these features symbolize fearlessness and the power of transformation.
Next is recitation/incantation: the practitioner proclaims the mantra of the Vajra Queen. This function helps thought become purified and absorbed into the queen’s nature, thereby attaining single-pointed focus.
Finally comes the completion stage: the practitioner’s mind no longer distinguishes between the one who visualizes, the object visualized (the queen), and the function of visualization.
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