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 +++++++++++**************+++++++++++ * 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;