Precious Rosary of Chod Feasts. Chö Publishing: 8/5 x 11. approx 300 pages, available Oct 2011

The Precious Rosary of Chod

Crowning Jewel of Chod

The Tsogley Rinpoche Trengwa (or simply Rinchen Trengwa) is the main long Chod ritual practiced by Kagyu and Nyingma lamas and yogis. Those practicing either the Machik or Nyingtik Chö, Drikung Chod, or any of dozens of other terma traditions—Including the Dudjom Tersar—rely on the Precious Rosary as an extensive Tsok ritual. Others take it as their main practice, doing the full practice daily or focusing on different sections each day. Two such monasteries, strictly devoted to the Rinchen Trengwa, currently exist in Bhutan. The Precious Rosary is also ideal for group or solo retreats of 7, 14 or 30 days or longer. For all however, it is a comprehensive path, containing all the elements of both Chod and Vajrayana.

The Legacy of MaChik

More importantly, the Precious Rosary of Chod Offerings is the most complete collection of practices we have, directly from the tradition of MaChik herself. The entire legacy of the Precious Rosary actually consists of 21 additional texts, including six healing texts, several funerary texts and so on. Rangjung Rigpa Dorje, the Third Karmapa (c. 1300) collated these texts, correcting errors and ensuring that all texts were part of the MaChik’s original Chod tradition. Three hundred years later, Karma Chagmé (c. 1650) the famous Kagyu luminary, polished up the collection, preserving an accurate transmission to this day.

Rangjung Dorje

The Sound of the Tsogley

There are four different melodic traditions and variations of the Precious Rosary of Chod; The version practiced by Tsewong Sitar Rinpoche contains over 40 melodies, each one seemingly more haunting and powerful than the next. Fortunately, through his father, he has been able to provide the traditional name of each of the melodies, which have now been recorded singly for study and preservation. the ritual has tremendous benefits for the practitioner or for those who participate in various ways (making offerings, participating in healing, etc.). The Tibetan text or “pecha,” in its current version, contains over 170 folios, while the English transliteration and translation, combined with the Tibetan (now in process) fills over 300 letter size pages (8.5 x 11″).

Stages of the Chod Practice

A survey of the sections of the Tibetan text of the Precios Rosay or Chod show the full range and depth of this remarkable work. Some of these “sections” have been published separately, indicating the Third Karmapa (Ranjung Dorje) may have collected various pieces of MaChik’s direct heritage, to create the seamless now know as the Rinpoche Tsogley Trengwa.

I  Preliminary Section

1. Blessing the Dutsi • 1.1 Blessing the Offering • 2. Self-Visualization • 2.1 Peaceful Summoning • 2.2    Overcoming with Splendor • 2.3 Wrathful Summoning • 2.4 Remembering Mahamudra • 3. Refuge • 3.1 Outer Refuge •  3.2 Inner Refuge • 3.3  Secret Refuge • 3.4 Suchness Refuge • 3.5 Ultimate Refuge 4. Seven Branch Prayer • 5. Bodhicitta • 6. Four Immeasurables • 7. Field of Offering • 7.1 Inviting the Wisdom Beings • 7.2  Descent of Blessing •7.3 Request to Stay • 7.4 Empowerment • 8. Offerings •  8.1 Outer Offering • 8.2  Inner Offering • 8.3  Secret Offering •  8.4 Mandala Offering • 8.5 Ultimate Offering • 9. • Praise

II. Mantra Section

10. Mantra Recitation • 11.1 Inner Recitation • 11.2 Gathering Blessings • 11.3 Purification Visualization • 11.4 Repaying Karmic Debts for the Sick

III    Feast and Prayer Section

11. • Powa: Opening the Sky Door • 12. Body Mandala • 13. White Feast 1 • 13.1 Preparation • 13.2 • Offering • 13.3 • Higher Guests • 13.4 Lower Guests • 13.5 Guests of Compassion • 13.6 • Shidaks • 13.7 • Nagas • 14. • Red Feast 1: Remainder Feast • 15. • Lineage Prayer 1 • 16. White Feast 2: Nectar Vase • 17. Lineage Prayer 2 • 18. Red Feast 2  • 19. Lineage Prayer 3 • 20. • Red Feast 3 • 21. Lineage Prayer 4 • 22. Feast 4 • 23. Lineage Prayer 5 • 23.1. Receiving Blessing • 24. Prayer for Blessing by MaChik • 25. Highest Praise of Padampa • 26. Feast: Distribution to the Guests • 27. Prayer to Padampa 2 • 28. White Feast: Checkerboard • 29. Prayer to MaChik • 30. Casting out the Corpse • 31. Prayer to MaChik •32. Red Feast: Best Desirable Feast • 33. Prayer: Praise to MaChik 2 • 34. Feast: The Four Continents • 35. Prayer to MaChik 3 • 36. Red Feast: Beggar Mat • 37. Prayer of Praise • 38. Feast: Flags and Banners • 39. Eastern Door of the Reliquary • 40. Red Feast: Shaking the Bones • 41. Southern Door of the Reliquary • 42. Red Feast: Distributing the Corpses • 43. Western Door of the Reliquary • 44. Northern Door of the Reliquary • 45. ShiDak Torma • 46. Praise of the MaChik (Gyalwa Dondrup) • 47. White Feast: Naga Offering • 48. Praise of the Child • 49. Prayer to the Five Families of Dakinis • 50. Exhorting the Ten Million Dakinis • 51. Exhorting the Hundred Thousand Dakinis

IV Ganachakra Section

52. Preparing the Tsog • The Guests. 53. Long Lineage Prayer • 54 • Inviting the Dakinis • 55 • Request for Blessings • 56 • Descent of Blessings • 57 • Feast of the Mother Tantra • Feast Preparation • 58. The Four Mixings • 59. Blessing the Feast • 60. Hooking Primordial Wisdom Nectar • 61. Offering the Tsok • 62. Hand Offering • 63. Offering to the Dakinis • 64. For the Sick • 64.1 • Hooking in the Obstacles • 64.2 • Offering to the Demons • 64.3 • Offering to Specific Lha Dré

V Torma Section

65. Torma Preparation • 66. General Torma • 67. Lama Torma • 68. Yidam Forma • 69. Protectors • 70. Worldly Protector Torma • 71. Local Protectors: ShiDak • 72. Torma Offering of Rigongpa Tsondru Senge • 73. Dedication of Purity • 74. Offering and Praises

VI Kang Wa Section

75. Body Mandala Kangwa • 76. Lama Kangwa • 77. Dakini Kangwa • 78. Protector Kangwa • 79. Worldly Protector Kangwa • 80. Powa of Purifying the Six Realms • 81. Confession

VII Tsogley Feast Part 2

82. Hand Offering • 83. Lakma • 83.1 Invitation • 84. Lakma Offering • 85. Lakma Torma

VIII Dakini Section

86. Exhortation of the 100,000 Dakinis • 87. Exhortations of the Dakinis of Space • 88. Exhortations of the Dakinis of the 24 Places • 89. Exhorting the Worldly Dakinis

IX Protector Section

90. Six Arm Mahakala • 91. Remati • 92. Bernakchen • 93. Aghora • 94. Cittipatti • 95. Three Sisters on Nine-Headed Mounts • 96. Palden Lhamo • 97. Rahula • 98. Tsen • 99. Oath Bound Protectors • 100. Protector Torma-Kartor • 101. Protectors of the Directions • 102. Kind of the Nyen • 103. Lord of Tibet-LhaRab Shampo • 104. MaSang Protectors-Kula Khari • 105. O Day GunGyal • 106. King of Nagas • 107. Oath Bound Protectors • 108. Torma Offering • 109. Torma Clearing—The Dance

X Concluding Section

110. Chenrezig: Pacifying Animosity • 110.1. Purification • 111. Dedication • 112. Giving of Dharma • 113. Sending Back the Lower Guests • 114. Conclusion for Higher Guests • 115. Correction of Faults • 116. Dedication of Merit • 117. Prayers of Auspiciousness—Tashi • 118. Sending Back the Dakinis • 119. Taking Repossession our Consciousness • 120. Request for Blessing • 121. Taking Empowerment • 122. Prayer for MaChik’s Blessing • 123. Return to Emptiness • 124. Reappearance

Vast Personal Benefits….

The inconceivably vast benefits of Chod, Yidam practice, offering tsok, Protector and Kangwa practice, Dakini practice, Guru Yoga and much more, are here condensed into one rich, vibrant practice. Particularly, practitioners can find no better path to accelerated inner transformation and the arisal of joy, luminosity and a direct perception of the open, spacious nature of mind and phenomena.

And Crucial Outer Impacts

For attendees, observers or those undergoing remote healing, the Precious Rosary of Chod ritual has deep healing effects on body and mind. And lastly—and certainly not least in these turbulent times—the practice can help pacify outer disturbances of the elements, reducing conflicts, disease and climatic and geologic disasters of every kind. By shifting the karmic matrix of “reality,” the damaged environment can be healing on a deep energetic level. Indeed, without impacting the spiritual and energetic causes of disease, catastrophic events and human madness, all attempts at change are just shooting in the dark.

The Precious Rosary of Chod is the subject of Module 4 of the School of Tibetan Healing Cho, with comprehensive training in this crucial practice.