{"id":3193,"date":"2022-03-05T19:54:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2023-09-27T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:43:09","slug":"the-tantra-of-chandamaharoshana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/le-tantra-de-chandamaharoshana\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tantra of Chandamah\u00e2roshana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-white ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/le-tantra-de-chandamaharoshana\/#Une_rencontre_bouleversante\" >A moving encounter<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/le-tantra-de-chandamaharoshana\/#Pourquoi_enfreindre_la_loi_du_secret\" >Why break the law of secrecy?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/le-tantra-de-chandamaharoshana\/#Lunion_sacree_des_opposes\" >The sacred union of opposites<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/le-tantra-de-chandamaharoshana\/#Un_texte_complexe_parfois_abscons\" >A complex, sometimes abstruse text<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/le-tantra-de-chandamaharoshana\/#Le_culte_de_la_feminite\" >The cult of femininity<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/le-tantra-de-chandamaharoshana\/#Que_represente_Chandamaharoshana\" >What does Chandamah\u00e2roshana represent?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Among the tantras practised in Nepal and India, that of Chandamah\u00e2roshana remained a secret until 2015, when it was translated into French. Previously passed down only from master to disciple, this tantra was given by Dharma Guruji, an old tantric sage and Newar adept, to Evelyne Delamotte (the translator), Pascal Chazot (current director of the 'Mahatma Gandhi' international school) and Eric Chazot (a writer specialising in the art of the Himalayas), in gratitude for saving his life. Read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Une_rencontre_bouleversante\"><\/span><strong>A moving encounter<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dharma-Gurudji-Copier-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Dharma-Gurudji-Copier-1\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Dharma-Gurudji-Copy-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dharma-Gurudji-Copier-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dharma-Gurudji-Copier-1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dharma-Gurudji-Copier-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dharma-Gurudji-Copier-1-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dharma Guruji had voluntarily stripped himself of all his possessions and lived solely on the offerings of the villagers.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The cult of Chandamah\u00e2roshana seems to have appeared in India as early as the 7th century and in Nepal around the 13th century. The Newars, the indigenous population of the Kathmandu valley, are the only ones to have preserved the sacred texts in their original liturgical language, Sanskrit. In Nepal, a country of castes, religion is elitist: not everyone has access to knowledge. Certain rituals and certain powerful knowledge would offend common sense and could be used to carry out evil deeds, which is one of the reasons why knowledge is compartmentalised. Only the Vajarcharya, the Newar priests of the highest Buddhist caste, were initiated into Tantra, and they were the only ones capable of reading Sanskrit. In 1957, a scholar (<em>pandit<\/em>) of Patan, translated the Chandamah\u00e2roshana Tantra into Newari and made 6 copies. In 1960, he gave one of them to Dharma Guruji (1898-1990), a sage, monk and yogi living in the suburbs of Kathmandu, whose reputation for integrity was already high in his community. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to the practice of this tantra. <em>\"with a faith and determination that have never wavered\".<\/em>according to Eric Chazot, who has made it his duty to relay his message. Heir to the Buddhist tradition of the Kathmandu valley, Dharma Guruji appears to be the last master to have practised and taught this great tantra.<br><br><strong><br><\/strong>Eric Chazot lived in Nepal from 1975 to 1988 with his partner Evelyne Delamotte, who translated this sacred text, and his brother Pascal. <em>\"My neighbour, in a small thatched-roof house, was an old Newar monk dressed all in blue, who lived with two women, both dressed in red; a friendly trio that I met every day and who enjoyed great respect in the Nepalese community. This is how we met the 'Blue Lama', so called because of the colour of his robe, which was different from that of the other Buddhist lamas. One morning at dawn, the nun Soukamaya, the elder of the two women with whom he lived, came to wake me up: the old monk had fallen lifeless in his garden and it looked as if he was going to succumb to a heart attack. Fortunately, our friend Vincent Caillard, a doctor at the French embassy, whom I went to see straight away, diagnosed angina pectoris and gave him nitroxide. As if by a miracle, a few weeks later Dharma Guruji was cured. One day, he came knocking at our door, thanking us for having saved his life: according to him, his illness was a message from the divinities:<\/em> \"\u00a0<em>the goddess gave me a good slap in the face!  I nearly died! You saved my life and I understood the meaning of this event<\/em>\" .  He had come to offer them the only precious thing he possessed, a secret book: the Tantra of Chandamah\u00e2roshana, of which he was a follower. <em><em>\"<\/em><\/em> <em>He then solemnly entrusted us with the mission of spreading it in the West, and more specifically in France. Despite our initial reluctance, none of us feeling the soul of a missionary, this was the beginning of a long, friendly, warm and humanist relationship that lasted until his death, rich with long talks in which he explained the tantric rites and the philosophy that accompanies them to the messengers he had chosen.<\/em>. Evelyne Delamotte undertook the translation, while Pascal Chazot became an adept and disciple of the tantric master and Eric Chazot a privileged interlocutor who asked him all the questions necessary to understand this extremely esoteric and totally baffling text, which was bound to raise many questions. It's a cryptic text that requires commentary and explanation if it is not to lead to unfortunate misunderstandings and hence to totally erroneous practice.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/023-Copier-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"023-Copier-1\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"023-Copy-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/023-Copier-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/023-Copier-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/023-Copier-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/023-Copier-1-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dharma Guruji dancing during a ceremony at the Kimdol Bahal monastery.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pourquoi_enfreindre_la_loi_du_secret\"><\/span><strong>Why break the law of secrecy?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\"Dharma Guruji was fully aware that by abolishing the very ancient law of secrecy, he was taking all the risks of the terrible curses decreed and assuming them without fear, as an eminent master of the doctrine, while at the same time ensuring its continuity and dissemination\".<\/em>says Eric Chazot, who has made it his duty to reveal the content of this tantra and the message of this master.<br>In these troubled times that Hindus and Buddhists call <em>k\u00e2li yuga<\/em>Before leaving the cycle of rebirths for good, this master of Tantra decided to lift this law of secrecy for the good of humanity. \"&nbsp;<em>I know that samsara, the world, is not going well, that technology is running it and depleting its resources, that there are wars and famines. I pray every day, and sometimes I fast. I feel great sadness at the sight of this world in perdition, and that's why I'm opening up the path of tantra to you.<\/em>&nbsp;\"confided Dharma Gurudji to his interlocutor. <em>\"Convinced of the richness of the spiritual message, having spent his life in meditation and religious practice, Dharma Guruji felt that the present era no longer justified secrecy and that tantric knowledge should now be accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. According to him, only one accomplished being in 10 million is capable of understanding and practising this text, but he still needed to have access to it, and that was the reason for the mission he entrusted to us\".<\/em>, explains Eric Chazot.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/009-Copier.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"009-Copier\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"009-Copy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/009-Copier-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/009-Copier-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/009-Copier-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/009-Copier-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/009-Copier-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/009-Copier.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Nepal. Kathmandu. In the courtyard of the Kimdol Bahal monastery that he directed, Dharma Gurudji mimes one of the episodes in the life of the Buddha: the encounter with an old man in which the Buddha discovers the reality of old age and death.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lunion_sacree_des_opposes\"><\/span><strong>The sacred union of opposites<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Far from the extravagant sexual relations that have so aroused the curiosity of Westerners, Tantric practice aims at spiritual elevation and liberation from the chains of reincarnation. The initiation transmitted by the master to his disciple seals the bond that unites them and lays the foundation for the basis of tantra: wisdom can only be obtained through the union of man and woman. It is important to understand that when we speak of \"&nbsp;<em>maithuna\"<\/em>&nbsp;\"Yoga, which has the same etymology as 'yoke', means 'union', and in this case it is a metaphor for the union of body and mind. Yoga, which has the same etymology as 'yoke', means 'union', and in this case it is a metaphor for the union of body and mind. It is not a hedonism, a search for pleasure, but a ritual (in conjunction with many other practices and rituals). <em>sadhanas<\/em> such as meditation, visualisations, recitation of mantras, control of diet and breathing, drawing of yantras, etc.) whose aim is awakening and liberation from the chains of samsara (earthly incarnation). However, man will try to abstain from spilling his seed, because the purpose of sexuality is not reproduction, but the liberation of karma. \"&nbsp;<em>The union of man and woman and the retention of sperm can lead to ecstasy<\/em>&nbsp;\"confided Dharma Guruji. And he insisted on the possibility for the human spirit to expand and reach the ultimate and universal Consciousness with the help of this yoga, which is its highest form and which enables us to escape the infernal cycle of reincarnations in which ordinary man is trapped. In the chain of causes and consequences that is human life, the origin of consciousness is to be found in sexuality, and tantric sexuality therefore proceeds by a return to the origin.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210030-Copier-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"TANTRA : Temples \u00e9rotiques de la vall\u00e9e de KATHMANDOU\" data-rl_caption=\"NEPAL : Art Newar tantrique de la vall\u00e9e de Kathmandu - Temple de HARISHANKAR \u00e0 PATAN . Aisselier d&#039;angle, support de corniche en bois sculpt\u00e9 repr\u00e9sentant ACALA l&#039;immobile , CHANDAMAHAROSHAN, une forme terrible du bodhisattva MANJOUSRI portant l&#039;\u00e9p\u00e9e.\" title=\"TANTRA: Erotic temples in the Kathmandu valley\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210030-Copier-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210030-Copier-1.jpg 514w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210030-Copier-1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210030-Copier-1-402x600.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Nepal : Tantric Newar art from the Kathmandu valley - Harishankar temple in Patan. Carved wooden cornice support representing Acala the motionless, Chandamaharoshan, a terrible form of the sword-bearing bodhisattva Manjousri (Photo F. Guenet)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Un_texte_complexe_parfois_abscons\"><\/span><strong>A complex, sometimes abstruse text<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This text, described as <em>\"king of the tantras <\/em>and now revealed, is a support, a framework (etymology of the word tantra) which should enable the adept to free himself from his conditioning and bring him to the state of Buddha (awakening, bliss, liberation, nirvana...) in a single lifetime. <em>\"It is a doctrine that aims to avoid reincarnation and to escape the human condition of suffering, illness, ageing and inevitable death\".<\/em>explains Eric Chazot. To get there, Tantra sets out a series of yogic practices, instructions, ways of behaving and magical 'recipes' that can be activated by reciting mantras and using visualisation techniques. It is an arduous path, difficult to attain. Dharma Guruji mentions the need for a chosen diet with prohibitions such as alcohol, meat, onions, garlic and tomatoes (relatively similar to the Jain diet), and very strict moral and ethical rules. Not everything in this text should be taken literally. For example, it stipulates that the adept must kill his father and make love to his mother. Apart from its symbolic meaning, which psychoanalysis would not disapprove of, it is quite clear that this recommendation must be understood in a completely different sense, which is explained in one of the following chapters, which describes precisely the process of reincarnation at the moment of fertilisation.<br>Written more than a thousand years ago in a highly coded and hermetic language, the text is riddled with recommendations and transgressions that can appear as contradictions to the uninitiated who do not have the essential keys to reading it. <em>\"Another example: the follower is a vegetarian but the ritual expressly recommends eating meat. How can you eat meat without killing an animal, or eating the corpse of a dead animal? Simple answer: \"the placenta is meat, but it's not a corpse\".<\/em>reveals Eric Chazot. This mystical and initiatory narrative is deliberately obscure and seems full of contradictions that can only be deciphered with the help of a master's explanations. It should also be pointed out that Dharma Gurudju considered that another fundamental text from the Kathmandu valley, the N\u00e2masang\u00eeti (the sung name of Manjusri), functioned in symbiosis with the Chandamah\u00e2roshana Tantra. It is the complementary nature of these two texts that can also provide the keys to certain passages that seem obscure or contradictory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210042-Copier-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"TANTRA : Temples \u00e9rotiques de la vall\u00e9e de KATHMANDOU\" data-rl_caption=\"NEPAL : Art Newar tantrique de la vall\u00e9e de Kathmandu - LINGAM ( phallus en \u00e9rection sous la forme d&#039;un oeuf cosmique ) du dieu SHIVA au centre de la YONI ( vulve de la d\u00e9esse ). Temples du complexe m\u00e9di\u00e9val de PANAUTI - District de KAVRE dans la Zone de la BAGMATI.\" title=\"TANTRA: Erotic temples in the Kathmandu valley\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210042-Copier-1-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210042-Copier-1-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210042-Copier-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210042-Copier-1-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210042-Copier-1-600x391.jpg 600w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FGU1210042-Copier-1.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Nepal : Tantric Newar art from the Kathmandu valley - Lingam (erect phallus in the form of a cosmic egg) of the god Shiva at the centre of the Yoni (vulva of the goddess). Temples of the medieval Panauti complex - Kavre district in the Bagmati area. (Photo F. Guenet)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Le_culte_de_la_feminite\"><\/span><strong>The cult of femininity<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of this tantra, the woman has a predominant place. Without feminine energy, everything is in vain. Women embody Wisdom (<em>Prajna<\/em>) and man is the means to achieve it (<em>Upaya<\/em>). The union of the two is Knowledge (<em>jnana in Sanskrit, same etymology as gnosis). \"The man is god for the woman, the woman is goddess for the man. Visualising their divine nature and uniting the Vajra (male sex) and the Lotus (female sex), they will honour each other. Do not worship other gods\", <\/em>is written in this Tantra. In Hinduism, the symbol of Shiva, the <em>lingam<\/em> (phallus) in the <em>yoni<\/em> (vulva) of his wife Parvati, and in Buddhism, sexual union (<em>Yab-Yum<\/em>) of the Tantric divinities remind us that sexuality renews life and enlivens the eternal process of creation, and that it is at the origin of all living existence, animal or human. As stated in the chapter entitled \"The Praise of Woman\": \"&nbsp;<em>More than any other, the love and enjoyment a woman brings brings fulfilment.<\/em>&nbsp;\"And also: \"&nbsp;<em>The woman to whom all pleasures are given will give access to Buddhahood.<\/em>&nbsp;\"<br>In the Tantric context, sexuality is a means to an end, not an end in itself, because what is essential lies beyond pleasure; it is about achieving fusion with the absolute, the primordial stream of consciousness. Thanks to the importance of these rituals, the Tantric universe is a path of experience rather than knowledge, for it is practice rather than theory that constitutes its essence.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/010-Copier.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"010-Copier\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"010-Copy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/010-Copier.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/010-Copier.jpg 512w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/010-Copier-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/010-Copier-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dharma Gurudji wears his dance crown to practise the sacred dance.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Que_represente_Chandamaharoshana\"><\/span><strong>What does Chandamah\u00e2roshana represent?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>She is a fierce, wrathful deity, also known as A\u00e7ala, the Immutable. The word literally means: the great terrible wrath (<em>mah\u00e2<\/em>&nbsp;large, <em>rosana : <\/em>anger<em> and sweater : <\/em>terrible). He is also a popular exoteric protective deity whose representations can be found in the monasteries and pagodas of the Kathmandu valley. With his right foot he tramples on the four <em>M\u00e2ra<\/em> (Hindu gods in their non-tantric form: Brahm\u00e2, Vishnu, Shiva, Indra) symbolising the four obstacles to Enlightenment: a person's physical and mental disturbances, desires and passions, death, which is inescapable and universal, and which can interrupt spiritual evolution and make the adept doubt, the fourth and most powerful being the immoderate taste for power and the manipulation of others for personal ends.<br>In his left hand Chandamah\u00e2rosana holds a lasso to catch ignorance, in his right he brandishes a sword to cut the bonds of ignorance and the heads of the enemies of Buddhism. His left knee is on the ground. For the initiated, and only for them, Chandamah\u00e2rosana is also the symbol of ecstasy, of Co-Emergent Joy (one of the four Joys experienced by the practitioner in his quest for nirvana). He appears united with his female partner, his <em>Praj\u00f1\u00e2<\/em>in a representation that can only be seen in the secret chamber of the sanctuary. <em>Praj\u00f1\u00e2<\/em> (the woman) and <em>Up\u00e2ya<\/em> (man) being united and immutable in pleasure. This is the meaning of Acala, the Immutable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brigitte Postel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article appeared in <em>Unexplored<\/em> n\u00b0 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Eric Chazot is a writer specialising in the art of the Himalayas and Nepal, where he has lived and continues to visit several times a year. He had the good fortune to meet and befriend an old Newar sage, Dharma Guruji, who taught him the Chandamah\u00e2rosana Tantra (a Buddhist Tantra) and enlightened him about Tantric knowledge and practice.<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Read\u00a0<\/strong>Chandamah\u00e2roshana Tantra (translation by Evelyne Delamotte, edited by Dharma Guruji). Editions du Rocher, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.editionsdurocher.fr\/product\/100885\/tantra-de-chandamaharosana\/\">https:\/\/www.editionsdurocher.fr\/product\/100885\/tantra-de-chandamaharosana\/<\/a><br><strong>Beautiful book<\/strong>\u00a0Eric Chazot, Fran\u00e7ois Guenet, Tantra, Th\u00e9ologie de l'amour et de la libert\u00e9, Ed. du Rocher, 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Tantra-Th%C3%A9ologie-libert%C3%A9-Eric-Chazot\/dp\/2268080463\">https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Tantra-Th%C3%A9ologie-libert%C3%A9-Eric-Chazot\/dp\/2268080463<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the tantras practised in Nepal and India, the Chandamah\u00e2roshana tantra remained a secret until 2015, when it was translated into French. 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