A Casket of Jewels - Meditation on the Thirteen Deity Glorious Vajrabhairava by Je Tsongkhapa, translated and formatted by Wolfgang Saumweber, using the Tibetan text of the ACIP electronic version, Je Tsongkhapa’s Tibetan text from the Collected Works (sung bum) of Je Tsongkhapa published by TBRC, and Sharpa Tulku’s, Richard Guard’s and Alexander Berzin’s translation for the Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava “Victory Over Evil”.  This translation was greatly facilitated and inspired by Cornelia Weishaar-Gunter’s German translation of the sadhana text and H.E. Dagyab Kyabgon Rinpoche’s commen- tary on the Thirteen Deity sadhana/practice (in German, also translated by Cornelia Weishaar-Gunter).

Whenever there were questions in the translation we used Lhundup Pandita’s commentaries on the Thirteen-Deity Vajrabhairava Practice, “The Jewel Treasure House of the Three Bodies” and “The Staircase That Leads to the Three Bodies” in the Tibetan origi nal (published by Konchog Lhadrepa, Delhi & the TBRC edition of the Collected Works of Lhundup Pandita) and in Sharpa Tulku and Richard Guard’s translation (Tibet House, Delhi 2002).

Images were taken from traditional Tibetan or Mongolian woodcut prints of various origin. The line drawings were done by Andy Weber, Robert Beer and Wolfgang Saumweber. The Thirteen-Deity Mandala was painted by Andy Weber.

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