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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 © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 4/24/2011 12:48:00 PM
A truely evocative poem. The doctor is at his best. keep the Indian flag flying.
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Date: 4/19/2011 5:36:00 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved 1st place win Dr. Ram in Debbie Guzzi's contest "The Shaman's Way". Love, Carol
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Date: 4/17/2011 9:59:00 PM
I can so see why you got the top notch. Heartiest congrats for this win.
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Date: 4/17/2011 9:53:00 AM
Hey there Dr. Ram, congratulations on your first place win :)
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Date: 4/17/2011 8:31:00 AM
Congrats on your win! It's chock full of wonderful imagery and sounds!
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Date: 4/17/2011 4:57:00 AM
Many congrats on your 1st place, Dr Ram
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Date: 4/16/2011 8:44:00 PM
Congrats Dr. Ram on a spectacular first place win for this magnificent write luv.. enjoy a well deserved top spot luv..
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Date: 4/16/2011 6:11:00 PM
Most interesting and descriptive. Well worth no. 1 Congratulations. Joyce
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Date: 4/16/2011 6:01:00 PM
Congrad's Ram this was wonderful I particularly loved your use of sound! Your hard work paid off with truely an inspired write. Light & Love
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Date: 4/6/2011 7:25:00 AM
Just great Ram, I am there on the journey with you so exciting! Thanks for this entry i hope you are very happy with it, i am ;) Light & Love
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Date: 3/30/2011 10:12:00 PM
Dr Ram - insightful commentary on buddhist ritual. Thanks for your appreciative comments on my verse, " seeing way in others eye". Luv & best wishes - Hitendra Mehta
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Date: 3/30/2011 9:40:00 PM
Super amazing Dr. Ram.. eloquently penned with many details ... learning about this is fascinating my friend.. good luck in the contest.. I am in awe reading this one luv..
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Date: 3/30/2011 4:42:00 PM
Interesting work presented here tonight..Is this based on fact?...Good luck in the contest..Reads like a winner..Sara
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Date: 3/30/2011 4:20:00 PM
Very interesting revelations on Central Asian culture, Dr. Ram. The way she absorbs the illnesses from sick people reminded me of the gifted inmate in "The Green Mile," an Oscar winning film. He would inhale the illnesses and then exhale them. I'd really like to see the Dakani in action. Thank you for sharing this with us and best wishes in the Shaman contest! Love and blessings, Carolyn
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Date: 3/30/2011 3:43:00 PM
My favorite part was the "Eik….hic….hic…chuuaam….chhukkkk Bummmm aummmmm bum bum blah" can I quote you?
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Date: 3/30/2011 3:16:00 PM
Very descriptive, Dr. Ram; you have taken me their. Thank you for the journey. Elaine
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Date: 3/30/2011 1:37:00 PM
Just wonderful Ram the best for me I have read from you in a long while please do go on in the same vein expanding on the last verse speaking more of the actions of the laymen and the problems communal & farming that are brought.. speak as you have in the first 2 veres as if it is you SEEING it all. WONDERFUL! Light & Love [watch last line going right to infinity ;)]
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