Guest guest Posted October 10, 1999 Report Share Posted October 10, 1999 cloudhand (mike dickman) P.S. Glo, your Tara post is coming too! :-) Love, Bo mike dickman +ADw-cloudhand+AEA-oath.com+AD4- shadowcatcher+AEA-sedona.net +ADw-shadowcatcher+AEA-sedona.net+AD4- Sunday, October 10, 1999 1:08 PM Ganacakra SC, my Elder Brother- Could you forward the following to our Solar Annie, please? Sorry for the hassle (bloody computers+ACE-) m Annette For Dharma, 'Gana' means 'powerful', and 'a host, a multitude, a class, a -troop'. 'Cakra' in this context means 'a gathering'. Ganacakra, then, is the assembly of offering, practiced on the 10th. and 15th. days of the waxing and waning moon (10th., 15th., 25th., and 30th. of the lunar month) as well as on other 'high days and holy days', where a vast offering of the five powerful substances or their symbolic representations is made to the 'offering field' of all the innumerable Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Meditation Deities, Dakas, Dakinis, Vidyadharas, Yogins, Yoginis, Dharma Protectors, Worldly Protectors, and so on. The 10th. day is sacred to the peaking 'masculine energy' and the 25th. to that of the 'feminine'. Practices on these days are generally versions, depending upon the school, of the Guruyoga and Dakiniyoga sadhanas, while the Full Moon and New Moon practices are those of the Buddhas Amitabha -('Limitless Light') and Shakyamuni respectively. All who have received tantric empowerment are expected - indeed are oath-bound - to do these practices regularly. m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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