Invoking Kishg, Well-Being, and Good Fortune
Together, in unison, they invoked Kishg (“happiness”), well-being, good fortune… Today in Kalmykia another tantric ritual — “Yangdrub” — was performed. Traditionally it is conducted through the deities of wealth. Here at the Central Khurul it is conducted through White Mahakala. From the very morning the Monastic Sangha, led by the Shajin Lama of Kalmykia Geshe Tenzin Choydak, directed all its prayers to this Säküsn, for the accumulation of spiritual merit, wisdom, and spiritual wealth, as well as with a request to grant all living beings good fortune, health, well-being, and prosperity.
Year after year the clergy note that this ritual is aimed not merely at a person's material well-being, but precisely at their spiritual development, at their spiritual enrichment. It was with such pure intentions that the annual ceremonial procession took place; its participants, clad in elegant national costumes, together with the monks made a circumambulation around the temple, also passing through all the levels of “The Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni.” Holding in their hands the eight Buddhist symbols of happiness, the participants of the procession called out yöräls — “good wishes” — responding to one another with “Tiigthä!”.
Tomorrow, October 6, in the morning the concluding tantric ritual “Tangrak Kangso” will take place. We will offer our thanks to the Protectors of the Teaching.
