Dharma Protector Achi Choekyi Drolma

Offering Pujas for all Dharma Protectors, including Achi Choekyi Dolma, Choechung Tsimar, Mahakala and all wisdom and worldly dharma protectors will take place July 18-22 at Ayang Rinpoche’s monastery in Bylakuppe, India.

Protector Mahakala	Protector Choechung Tsimar

You are welcome to join the Dharma Protector Offerings by reciting Achi Choekyi Dolma mantras during this time:

OM SARVA BUDDHA DAKINI HRI MAMA TSAK TRA SOHA

Those who would like to make an auspicious connection with the Dharma Protector puja may send a check to the Amitabha Foundation, P.O. Box 2572, Aptos, California 95001, or donate online below. To have your name and the names of your loved ones included in the puja prayer list, please make your offering and submit names before July 21 at 8 am (Pacific time).

Here is an edited excerpt of a short biography of Achi Chokyi Dolma, given by Ayang Rinpoche in Sydney, Australia in 2004:

Achi Chokyi Drolma is an emanation of Vajra Yogini and Tara. She was born in the central area of Tibet. Beginning at a young age she was very special. She had great compassion and always practiced Tara, and she taught the Tara prayer for everyone in the village. When she grew older she prophesized that in the future there would be a new Buddhadharma lineage, and that she would be that lineage’s Dharma protector, whereupon she wrote protector offering prayers. Several generations later, her great grandson Jigten Sumgon started the Drikung lineage and she did become the main lineage Dharma protector.

She moved to Eastern Tibet, married and had 4 sons. Her most holy practice place is in East Tibet. At her death she attained the Great Rainbow Body. Her entire body become rainbows and light, leaving only her hair and nails. Like this, with no need to change this physical body, she went to the Pure Land.

On the relative level Achi was like the Dharma protector. But on the ultimate level, Achi had already attained the 10^th Bhumi of a Bodhisattva. In this way, Achi was already enlightened. Achi’s activity in Tibet is very famous. All the Tibetan people, especially the older generation people, know very well about her great activity, how it is so helpful because it is very fast. In Tibet, some great masters say that Achi is exactly the same as the Buddha, and if we pray to Achi, then by our Achi practice we will achieve enlightenment, or we will attain the Pure Land at our death moment.