Hayagriva Buddha: Why Amitabha's ferocious form is recommended in difficult times? Inc. tea offering

What's so special about Hayagriva Buddha? Why is Hayagriva recommended to students by Buddhist Teachers — in these difficult times? Why is this most Wrathful Heruka Emanation of Amitabha Buddha so effective today? What is the origin story of this fascinating and ferocious Buddha? Hayagriva was the main practice of Buddha Padmasambhava and Yogi Shabkar.
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In this Buddha Weekly video documentary, we answer these questions — and more, with insights from teachers such as Choden Rinpoche, Ogyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, and Lama Jigme Rinpoche. ‪@BuddhaWeekly‬

NOTE: Quotes from teachers are read by narrators.
FOR THE TEA PRAISE SEE BELOW, or the FULL HAYAGRIVA FEATURE ON BUDDHA WEEKLY linked below.
CONTENTS
00:00 What makes Hayagriva practice unique and special in Buddhism?
1:21 The Name and Mantra of Hayagriva
2:15 Hayagriva for troubled times.
2:48 Choden Rinpoche: Hayagriva is “a swift and powerful means to overcome negative forces and obstacles…”
3:04 Hayagriva was one of the main enlightened deities practices by the Lotus Born Padmasambhava
3:30 Hayagriva was the main practice of Yogi Shabkar
4:26 Hayagriva’s mandala has not yet vanished from our world
4:55 The origin of Hayagriva — an emanation of Amitabha
5:04 The Sutra for Forming Hayagriva
6:15 A Battle Beyond Epic: Hayagriva and Vajravarahi battle Rudra, the Ego Demon
6:38 The terrible demon Black Ngapa horrible to look at with three heads, six arms…
8:03 The hope against this apocalyptic demon was none other than Hayagriva and Vajravarahi
8:32 The neigh of the horse, symbolic of the Dharma voice and wrathful discerning wisdom…
9:17 Hayagriva strikes down with “wrathful force” to obliterate Rudra Demon (Literally: Dreadful Ego) (Rudra here is the word in Sanskrit meaning "Dreadful" not the Deity. See NOTE below.)
9:51 Ogyen Tobgyal Rinpoche explains the profound symbolism of the legend — The demon represents ego attached to our gross physical body…
10:21 Ogyen Tobgyal Rinpoche on the sixty-four power places that remain in our world today.
11:04 “These sacred places are associated with internal sacred places in all of our bodies — the channels and chakras of the internal body.”
11:16 Full symbolism of Hayagriva’s appearance: green horse heads, three eyes, six arms, eight legs
13:25 Why do we visualize such elaborate symbolism? Symbolism is the language of the mind…
13:35 Lama Jigme Rinpoche: Why do we visualize ourselves as the deity or “development stage” practice
14:14 Hayagriva — the Speech of All the Buddhas: the Importance of Dharma
15:10 The Powerful Heruka is Hayagriva “There is no one greater or more powerful than the powerful Heruka Hayagriva.” Ogyen Tobgyal Rinpoche
15:52 Venerable Steve Carlier: “Hayagriva is a wrathful aspect of Chenresig” (Avalokiteshvara)
16:26 How to do a Daily Tea Offering to Hayagriva for auspiciousness and merit.
18:01 The Manifestation of the Superb Victorious Wrathful Great Horse Tantra: Benefits to the Empowered practitioner of Hayagriva.

NOTE: For those who asked, Rudra, as quoted from the tantra text is not the Hindu God but is the use of the word in the Tantra (which means, per the Sanskrit dictionary: crying, howling, roaring, dreadful, terrific, terrible, horrible) -- it is a word description here, not the name of the god. Rudra, the god, is named with this word because of the same association with "roarer or howler" — i.e. the word meaning. (All of these tantras are translated texts. In other words, the tantra is describing the antagonist (representing Ego) as a "Dreadful" black demon (the literal definition of Rudra Black Demon.

MANTRA of HAYAGRIVA
Venerable Zasep Rinpoche advises that even without empowerment we may chant the mantra but any visualization (without empowerment) would be in front of us, not self-generated (only empowered individuals can self-generate.) The main mantra is, as published on the Kurukulla Centre for Tibetan studies is

“OM HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT”

in Tibetan pronunciation this can sound like:

Om Hri Benza Todha Hayagiva Hulu Hulu Hum Pey

There is also a longer version of the mantra, especially important in Hayagriva Sangdrub practice:
OM HRIH PADMAN TATRO VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT.


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