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NOTE: This item CANNOT BE SHIPPED due to its extreme fragility! It will be available only for personal pick-up at Serenity Ridge. 

This torma was blesed at the Ma Tri inititation at Serenity Ridge in 2011 by Menri Lopon Trinley Nyima Rinpoche.

The Ma Tri matra (also known as The Great Mantra) is one of the Three Essence mantras of the Yungdrung Bön tradition. It is the Essence Mantra of the Dzok ku (Sambhogakaya; Enlightened Body which displays all of the Perfected Qualities) related to the tantric view. 

This essence mantra embodies the energy of Lord Tönpa Shenrap Miwoché and Sherap Chamma, the Wise Loving Mother as well as Buddha’s six enlightened manifestation in each of the Six Realms: hell, hungry ghosts, animal, human, demi-gods, and god.  These six manifestations of Buddha Tönpa Shenrap are known as the Six Subduing Shen. 

Each year around the time of the Tibetan New year in Dolpo, this mantra is recited continuously, without any interruption, for 15 days.

In the Yungdrung Bön tradition, there are three mantras that collectively embody the entirety of the teachings of the enlightened Lord Tönpa Shenrap Miwoché.  They are commonly known as the Nyingpo Namsum, the Three Essence Mantras.  The Yungdrung Bön teachings are like an ocean. 

There are 84,000 teachings.  These can be condensed into the Nine Ways of Bön.  These Nine Ways can be further condensed into the three views of sutra, tantraand dzogchen. 
These three views can be condensed into the Three Essence Mantras.  That is why they are called ‘Essence’ mantras. Practicing these Three Essence Mantras can bring the result of practicing the Nine Ways of Bön. 
Even simply reciting these mantras with faith and devotion without understanding their meaning or individual practices can bring blessing and power to the practitioner. 

During the preliminary practices which prepare the spiritual practitioner for further development and advanced practices, each of these Three Essence Mantras are recited 100,000 times. 
It is common for even Bönpo laypeople to recite each of these mantra a minimum of 108 times every day.  During recitation of any mantra, it is proper to not engage in any other kinds of speech and to refrain from eating, drinking, coughing, sneezing, spitting or any strong expulsion of breath. In this way, the power of the mantra is not lost or diminished. 

Once the recitation is complete, it is traditional to blow onto the mala and therefore bless it with the energy of the mantra.  the practitioner can also blow the energy of the mantra recitation onto any areas of pain on the body, to the heart area, or onto food and drink. 

To fully receive the benefit and blessings of reciting any of these Three Essence Mantras, it is essential to receive transmission for them from an authentic and qualified Yungdrung Bön lama.

Each of these mantras have their own practice and visualization.  They are also directly related to the three Enlightened Bodies: Bön ku-the Enlightened Body of the Ultimate Nature, Dzok ku-the Enlightened Body which displays all of the Perfected Qualities, and the Tul ku-the Enlightened Body which actually manifests as form.

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Dimensions: Height: 12", Width: 6", Width: 6"