Ceasing Shugden

Ceasing Shugden

Date of Advice:
May 2014
Date Posted:
January 2015

A student wrote to advise that he given up Shugden (Dolgyal) practice, and he asked Rinpoche what he should do with his Dolgyal materials. He also had a question about Vajrayogini.

My very dear Ray,
Thank you very much for your kind letter and for what you are expressing.

Regarding your questions: yes, burn the material you have. Regarding the crystal, you don’t need to crush it. Just put it high on a mountain far away, where it won’t be found.

Regarding Vajrayogini, the syllable should be BAM not VAM. Anyway, please use the Tibetan syllable, not English. The English is just for sound, but the Tibetan has incredible significance. The sun, the moon and the nada are signifying the three appearances. If you use just English you lose all that, so you must visualize the Tibetan syllable.

It’s very good what you do, Lama’s blessing. It is so good that you gave up the Shugden. Thank you very much.

With much love and prayers...