The Tantric Art and Science of Sacred Implements

Outer Beauty

• The gallery shows the extraordinary art of the unique, hand-crafted drums, made according to the ancient traditions.
• Their beauty of form and intricate details is part of the offering to the lineage of enlightened masters and forces behind Vajrayana spiritual practice.

Inner Beauty

• But there is also a science behind each detail: the skins, wood, inner mantras, beaters, and so on, each have specific vibrational and spiritual effects.

• They act as a conduit, a vortex that opens the practitioner up to a profound blessing stream, coming form the yidams, protectors, and lineage masters of Chöd.
  

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Enjoy this gallery of Vajrayana Art and Science, a surviving vestige of the sacred path of transformation that entered the human dimension some 1500 years ago…

The World’s Only Authentic Damarus

Sacred Mind

The profound path of Vajrayana is able to overcome obstacles in our day to day lives and  to uncover and rediscover our own pristine, unfabricated Wisdom Mind. This allows us to help others in unfathomable ways.

Through transforming our physical and energetic bodies, karmic patterns, sensory experience and reactive mind, we can come to dwell in the basic matrix of consciousness, the stratum from while all experience arises.

Sacred Practice

The great beings of the past developed a wide variety of skillfull means to guide us towards full this realization. Transmitted from Wisdom mind through an unbroken lineage of living masters is has reached our present day. Vast, profound, sometimes complex, the intricate detail of the sadhana, visualizations, mantra and mudras, are the container that keeps the living dharma intact and free of contamination or distortion.

Sacred Implements

An essential part of this matrix of practice is the spectrum of unique sacred tantric implements used daily in Vajrayana practice. Their nature is both practical and symbolic; They perform energetic functions that directly impact the fabric of experience and phenomena.

Their fabrication, form, proportions and materials are a matter of exacting specifications. In this time of  extreme challenge, we need an impeccable approach to our dharma practice. By guarding our tradition and sacred intentions, this can be a time, not of shadow, but of transformation

Preserving the Tradition

Since the diaspora from Tibet and the fracturing of the population and culture, there has been a dramatic degradation of the level of the sacred objects. Shoddy and inauthentic instruments simply cannot be a conduit for the powerful energies required for our successful practice.

Fortunately, the texts describing the proper qualities and characteristics of these items still exist and, more importantly, a few rare craftsmen have kept these secret traditions intact.

However, Until now, few Westerners have been exposed to these quality materials so that the difference can be discerned. Now, for the firs time, authentic damarus are available, created according to highest ancient traditions.

There are 7 features that make DamaruWorks radically different than the “dharma tourist” toy drums from Nepal and India.

Part	Qualities	Image
1. Skin	• "Trin-pak" (cloud skins) are the only proper way to make damaru skins • Painting skins destroys their sound and energetic qualities. • Skins are buried for several weeks iwth copper and mineral salts and sacred herbs • The inside of the skin has a lotus drawn with the rare "35 Dakini's blood."
2. Wood	Fine Acacia (SengDeng) is made from a single tree, that is up to 200 years old from Bhutantese forests. These old-growth forests are no longer found in Nepal.
3. Mantras	• Mantras are hand written in gold, on a red background • There are many traditions of mantra scribing; We use the MaChik or Dudjom system
4. Beaters	• "Eyeball" pattern of woven cloth over rolled leather. • interior has powder of 108 human skulls.
5. Conch Ring	• A white conch ring is essential on the damaru handle, expressing the purity of dharma
6. Metal Ring	• A iron or steel ring must be used to connect the strap to the chopen or tail
7. Banner	• Individual Benares silk panels, in the ancient style, represent the 5 Dakini families (11 panels in total).