The Oracle At Tibetan Stok Monastery-W
“Patients, carefully wash your hands and mouth
As the spirits are offended by our smells
And get yourself clean of the defilements”
Thus Matho announced the arrival of the **Dakini
To the séance of the Stok Monastery.
Then Dakini donned her ritual costume
Preparing the alter of seven offerings of
Water, flowers, incense, a butter lamp, cakes
As well as ‘golden drinks” and juniper incense
She was ready with the bell, and small hand drum.
“Eik….hic….hic…chuuaam….chhukkkk
Bummmm aummmmm bum bum blah
Did you hear the hiccupping, sneezing
And the mysterious chanting of the oracle
See her offering the drinks to please the god.
Then she in full trance, the healing sessions began
The hand drum spinning, bell shaking
And the tantric gestures ha ha ha bum bum blah
Shhhhhhhert Shhssshhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhert
Hrihhhhmmm Climmmmmmm Shrrrrrrrriiiiimmmmm
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa uuuumm …sswahahahaha.
Now she turned to the patients waiting
To present their ailments, predicaments
And they were treated one by one.
She extracted noxious substances causing illness
With a short copper tube vigorously sucked
And then spitted the substance into a bowl of water.
She read the barley corns dancing across her drum
And used her rosary beads for calculation
Divining the cause of illness, or other quarries.
The Vajra master trains two laymen and they
Undergo fifteen days of daily ablutions
And continues to serve making predictions
Both communal and agrarian welfare
During harvest festival in seventh Tibetan month.
Look, there is a farmer with his problems
He is advised to plow his field in zigzag pattern
Then, comes a shepherd to the Kuuchu (spirit chaser)
With a problem of butter not churning
And he is advised to exorcise the butter.
Hear Kuuchu chanting a Badik song
Next comes a woman who got sick
After her delivery
And advised to be treated before forty days.
Follow me to the stone alter behind that temple
Do you see a human figurine called Torma
A person’s sins are transferred to a dough effigy
A demon or an enemy’s soul is trapped in it
Now see how it is stabbed and beheaded
By ritual dancers wearing deity marks.
This will go on for about fifteen day
And people praying for peace and prosperity.
Dr. Ram Mehta
First place in Debbie's The Shamans
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* shamanistic influence in the Bonn religion of some Central Asians,
and in Tibetan Buddhism.
**The Tibetan Buddhist Dakini is a compelling icon of untamed female
freedom.The word “dakini” is Sanskrit;
Copyright © Dr.Ram Mehta | Year Posted 2011
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