Zhitro Ngensong Jongwa

The Peaceful Deities
Courtesy of Dodrupchen Chorten Gompa

The Zhitro Ngensong Jongwa or Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities is a treasure revealed by Jigme Lingpa that is part of the Longchen Nyingtik cycle.

From the tantra and sādhana sections, this practice belongs to the tantras and is considered the king among all practices. It is especially effective for repairing impairments and breakages and purifying thoughts and obscurations. It is the supreme method that liberates all sentient beings from the suffering of the lower realms and grants them the fortune of unsurpassed attainment.

 

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Texts

  • Jigme Lingpa, Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, from the Heart-Essence of the Vast Expanse (ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་གི་ཐིག་ལེ་ལསཿ ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བ) 4pg [1]

  • Jigme Lingpa, An Ornament Illuminating the Gathering: A Liturgy for Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (ཞི་ཁྲོ་ཆོག་སྒྲིགས་ - ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བའི་ཆོག་སྒྲིགས་ཁྲོམ་དཀྲུགས་གསལ་བའི་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཀླགས་ཆོག་མར་བཀོད་པ་) 71 pg

  • Jigme Lingpa, A Supplementary Investigation for Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (ཞི་ཁྲོ་ལྷན་ཐབས་ - ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བ་ལ་བརྟེན་པའི་ཞིབ་དཔྱོད་ལྷན་ཐབས) 5pg

  • Jigme Lingpa, Removing the Seal of Difficult Points: Further Clarifications for the Generation Phase of Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (ཞི་ཁྲོ་ཡང་ཡིག་-་ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བའི་བསྐྱེད་རིམ་ལས་འཕྲོས་པའི་ཡང་ཡིག་བཀའ་གནད་རྒྱ་འགྲོལ) (7pg)

  • Jigme Lingpa, Pith Instruction for Repairing Impairments and Breakages, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (མན་ངག་ཀློང་སྙིང་ - ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་ལས། ཉམས་ཆགས་སྐོང་བའི་མན་ངག་) 2pg

  • Jigme Lingpa, A Compassionate Net Benefitting Beings, A Ritual for the Benefit of the Deceased Connected with ‘Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities’ (གཞན་ཕན་ - ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བ་དང་འགྲེལ་བའི་སྒོ་ནས་ཚེ་འདས་ལ་ཕན་གདགས་པའི་ཆེ་ག་གཞན་ཕན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་དྲ་བ་) 17pg

  • Jigme Lingpa, Complete Liberation from the Two Obscurations, A Method for Purifying the Aggregates of a Deceased Person Connected with Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (ཕུང་པོ་སྒྲིབ་སྦྱོང་ - ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བ་དང་འགྲེལ་བར་ཚེ་འདས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་སྦྱོང་ཐབས་སྒྲིབ་གཉིས་རྣམ་གྲོལ་) 17pg

  • Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Özer, Highway of the Great Yoga: A Daily Practice for the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Self-Liberated Wisdom Mind (ཞི་ཁྲོ་དགོངས་པ་རང་གྲོལ་གྱི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་གཞུང་ལམ་). Strictly speaking this practice is not part of the Longchen Nyingtik. However, it was written by Jigme Trinle Özer and is widely used within the Longchen Nyingtik tradition.

Frontpage of a rare manuscript of A Chariot for Traversing to the Celestial Realm of Akaniṣṭha

  • Drupchen (Drupwang) Pema Rangdrol [2], A Chariot for Traversing to the Celestial Realm of Akaniṣṭha, A Liturgy for Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Illusory Net, the Union of Kama and Terma, form the Heart-Essence of the Vast Expanse (ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་གི་ཐིག་ལེ་ལས་། བཀའ་གཏེར་ཟུང་འཇུག་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བའི་ཆོག་སྒྲིག་འོད་མིན་མཁའ་སྤྱོད་བགྲོད་པའི་ཤིན་རྟ). Text available here: BDRC MW1NLM4988.

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Generating the Four Vajras: A Self-initiation for Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (བདག་འཇུག་ - ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བའི་བདག་འཇུག་རྡོ་རྗེ་བཞི་བསྐྱེད་) 17pg

Empowerment

Commentaries

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Entrance Way for the Vidyādharas: A Recitation Manual for Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (བསྙེན་ཡིག་ - ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་གི་ཐིག་ལེའི་ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བའི་བསྙེན་པའི་ཟིན་ཐུན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇུག་ངོགས་) 8pg

  • Pema Rangdrol, Stairways to the Supreme Path of Union, A Commentary on Purifying the Lower Realms: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་ལས་ཞི་ཁྲོ་ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་བའི་ཆོ་གའི་རྣམ་བཤད་ཟུང་འཇུག་ལམ་མཆོག་བགྲོད་པའི་ཐེམ་སྐས་)

Footnotes

[1] This is the treasure text. It was not included in the initial collection printed in Derge. It was found later on and Adzom Drukpa included it in his edition of Jigme Lingpa’s collected works.

Pema Rangdrol
From grub dbang pad+ma rang grol gyi gsung rtsom phyogs bsgrigs, mi rigs dpe skrun khang. Peking, 2019. BDRC W8LS68442.

[2] Pema Rangdrol (grub chen pad+ma rang grol, 1786-1838. BDRC P2204) was born in Dome Tsezhung Sogpo (I.e., Mongolian area). He begun studying with the Dharma King Chögyal Ngakgi Wangpo (chos rgyal ngag gi dbang po BDRC P369) . He also studied with Dorje Lobpön Ogyen Tendzin (rdo rje slob dpon 'o rgyan bstan 'dzin), Zhabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol and the First Dodrupchen, Jigme Trinle Ozer. His subsequent incarnations are: pad+ma sku phreng gnyis pa dkon mchog 'byung gnas, pad+ma sku phreng gsum pa pad+ma drag po rtsal, pad+ma sku phreng bzhi pa 'jigs med rgya mtsho and pad+ma sku phreng lnga pa grags pa rgyal mtshan