Lineage Root Guru His Holiness Living Buddha Liansheng Has Been Respectfully Invited to Preside over the Grand Yisi Year Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple Amitabha Calamity Eradication, Blessing, and Deliverance Ceremony

Ceremony: Grand Yisi Year Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple Amitabha Calamity Eradication, Blessing, and Deliverance Ceremony
Date: Sat., Sep. 20, 2025, 2:00pm
Venue: Meydenbauer Center 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
Principal Deity of Transmission: Drashi Lhamo
Registration: https://english.tbsseattle.org/site/ceremony

Convenient New Transportation Facilities:
A newly constructed light rail system has a station just a 3–4 minute drive from Seattle Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple, complete with a large free parking lot. There is also a station directly across from the ceremony venue, Meydenbauer Center. Trains run every 10 minutes, and a round-trip adult ticket costs $6 (free for children under 18), making it very convenient for the public to attend the ceremony.
Bilingual Light Rail Map (Chinese & English) from Seattle Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple to Meydenbauer Center, the ceremony venue: https://english.tbsseattle.org/site/ceremony_place

【The Supreme Merits of the Principal Deity of Transmission:】
On June 22, 2025, H.H. Living Buddha Liansheng presided over the Mahasri Homa Ceremony. During his teaching, he mentioned Drashi Lhamo, an emanation of Tibetan Vajrayana Mahasri, who serves as a guardian deity of the saha world and as the female wealth deity of the Gelug sect. The key points from True Buddha News are summarized as follows:

【The Grand Fall Ceremony Will Transmit the Drashi Lhamo Practice】
Today, during the Mahasri empowerment, we will also bestow empowerment for Drashi Lhamo. Drashi Lhamo is the principal deity to be transmitted during the upcoming Grand Fall Ceremony. Everything about Drashi Lhamo will be explained in detail during the event. There are various legends surrounding Drashi Lhamo. Actually, she is an emanation of Mahasri. Her mantra is: “Om, ma-mo, na-mo, tong-tong, za-za, so-ha.” Her appearance is extremely wrathful.

【Drashi Lhamo: Tibetan Wealth Deity of Sudden Prosperity】
In Tibet, there is a Zaki Temple. She belongs to the Wealth Deity. She is known for making people suddenly wealthy — overnight millionaires. She also offers protection and acts as a Dharma protector. Her appearance is fierce and intimidating, although she was originally very beautiful. Due to certain karmic causes, she became wrathful.

【Offerings to Drashi Lhamo: Three Whites, Two Mirrors, and Delicacies】
Many things in this world are quite mysterious. One disciple even offered me a statue of Drashi Lhamo. The Zaki Temple in Tibet isn’t the only one; I heard she has a temple in Chengdu, Sichuan, and she is also revered in Ningxia. Her offerings are rather unique: she requires three bottles of white liquor, and tsampa, specifically white tsampa, which is unhulled barley flour. Since we don’t have unhulled barley flour locally, we use regular flour instead. As she holds the sun in one hand and the moon in the other, she should be offered two mirrors. This is a special practice of the True Buddha School. One can make all kinds of other delicious offerings to her as well.

【Drashi Lhamo, Worldly Protector and Gelug Female Wealth Deity】
She was originally a protector of all travelers, but she later transformed into a wealth deity. In Tibet, she is recognized as a worldly Dharma protector and wealth goddess, and is a female wealth deity of the Gelug school. She can bring instant wealth. What does this mean? It means getting rich all of a sudden. Everyone dreams of winning the lottery and becoming instantly wealthy. That’s Drashi Lhamo, the sudden-wealth goddess. A disciple from Sichuan offered me a statue of her. True Buddha School disciples have also offered me her statue, so I now have quite a few of them at home. She has even manifested before me. She is a truly special deity. I’ve heard she has a temple in Chengdu, and one in Ningxia too. Where is Ningxia? Is it in Gansu?

【The Legend and Origin of Drashi Lhamo】
There are several legends about her, but the main one says she was originally a very beautiful concubine of Emperor Qianlong. During palace intrigues, she was poisoned. As a result, her body turned completely black, her tongue protruded, and her face was disfigured. Her legs were chopped off, but miraculously grew back — resembling chicken claws. Her mudra is three fingers. This is her mudra (Grandmaster demonstrates the mudra). I will discourse on her more clearly during the upcoming ceremony.

Drashi Lhamo was originally very beautiful, but she died an unjust, wrongful death by malice. Her soul lingered and haunted the palace. Eventually, monks at Mount Wutai invited a highly accomplished Tibetan monk to subdue her. Later, with the help of the monk, she exacted revenge on those who wronged her and eventually they were all punished. She then followed the monk back to Tibet.

The Tibetan living buddha told her, “Since you can’t reside in the temple, we’ll build a small shrine for you outside.” That shrine became Zaki Temple. Although only a small temple at first, Drashi Lhamo gradually became especially famous for protecting travelers and bringing wealth. According to legend, this is how she became a wealth deity.

Drashi Lhamo is also a deity who protects the human world, that is, she is a guardian of the saha world. We’re bestowing her empowerment today. After receiving her empowerment, you can recite her mantra. After reciting her mantra, you can all instantly get rich (laughing). It’s not necessary to clap for anything but this!

“Brief Biography of Drashi Lhamo” from Q&A Under the Pine Tree, Book 304 by Living Buddha Liansheng:

[This brief biography was contributed by disciples in Sichuan]

During a recent Dharma ceremony, H.H. Living Buddha Liansheng mentioned that Drashi Lhamo descended together with Mahasri
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Drashi Lhamo is a very special Dharma protector rarely heard of in the worldly realm. She is an exclusive protector of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Presently, only Zaki Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, has established a shrine to her. Drashi Lhamo has dark skin, tightly furrowed eyebrows, wide-open eyes, a large gaping mouth, a tongue extending down to her chin, and chicken-claw feet. Her frightening appearance symbolizes her power to intimidate and subdue evil forces.

According to legend, Drashi Lhamo wholeheartedly devoted her life to practice. Because of her beauty, she became a target of jealousy, and an evil spirit poisoned her. Through her profound spiritual attainment, she was able to confine the poison to her tongue. However, she could not retract it, and it continued protruding from her mouth. When the evil spirit saw that the poison could not harm her, it cut off her feet. Unexpectedly, Drashi Lhamo grew chicken feet to replace them. As a result of this incident, she is also called the Chicken-Feet Deity. Her form thus demonstrates her great power to counteract poisons and her ability to purify the minds of sentient beings from inner toxins.

There is another legend about Drashi Lhamo. It is said that she was a young, beautiful and kind-hearted maiden from Han China. Emperor Qianlong loved her passionately, and she became his most favored consort. Her beauty and kindness stirred jealousy, and it was jealousy, which ultimately led to her tragic demise.
After deadly harm was done to her, her inner resentment prevented her from moving on. Her belief that she had been truly virtuous yet still suffered an unjust fate diminished her original innocence. She roamed the palace day and night, seeking justice and instilling fear in the retinue of the Imperial Court.

When Emperor Qianlong learned of this, he invited Lama Khyungpa Minlang from Sera Monastery in Tibet to visit the palace, hoping the high lama could soothe his deceased consort and bring peace of mind to all. Upon his arrival, the lama saw a woman weeping inconsolably atop a roof beam. After speaking with her, he learned that she was the consort who could not move on because she demanded justice for the wrong done to her.
The high lama reported the matter to the Emperor. Enraged, the Emperor punished those responsible for his consort’s death and asked the lama to perform deliverance rituals for her, in hopes that she could soon be liberated from suffering.

After everything was settled, the high lama departed. On his way back to Tibet, he discovered that the consort was following him and wouldn’t leave. He asked her the reason, and the woman said, “My heart is virtuous. With the guidance of the master, I wish to take refuge in the Buddha and attain liberation as soon as possible.”
The master replied, “The journey is long and too arduous for a woman.” No matter how he tried to dissuade her, she still refused to leave. Seeing her single-minded devotion to the Buddha and her steadfast Dharma heart, the lama finally agreed to let her accompany him.

When they arrived at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, the lama said, “This is a place for monks to practice; it is not a suitable place for you to enter. If I build you a residence here where people can make offerings to you, would that be acceptable?” The woman gladly agreed and was thus settled at Zaki Monastery, a branch of Sera Monastery.

After returning, the high lama began to create a statue and establish a residence for her, hoping that she would protect the area and assume the role of a guardian deity. She was given the name Drashi Lhamo. From then on, Drashi Lhamo wholeheartedly fulfilled her duties, practicing diligently while guarding the region and devoting herself to Buddhism.

In the past, Zaki Monastery was located at a Han military garrison. Han travelers often made offerings and worshiped Drashi Lhamo there. Her efficacy in protecting traveling merchants and others became well known, and she gradually became famous as a wealth deity as well.

Today, Tibetans consider the five lineage wealth deity practices to be secret teachings. In the True Buddha School, however, Dharma King H.H. Living Buddha Liansheng openly transmits these practices so that every disciple can be empowered to practice the wealth deity rituals. At present, very few Tibetan practitioners actually enshrine wealth deities or practice the wealth deity rituals. Even fewer institutions publicly enshrine wealth deities and open them for worship. The only wealth deity commonly seen in public in Tibet is Yellow Jambhala, one of the Four Great Heavenly Kings. The practices of other wealth deities remain secret and they are rarely worshiped in public.

As a result, Zaki Monastery has become the most famous wealth-deity temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Devotees visiting the monastery to seek the blessings and protection of Drashi Lhamo often bring white liquor as an offering to her.

In Tibet, Drashi Lhamo, a Han consort who came to Tibet to cultivate, is recognized as an emanation of Mahasri. She has, in effect, become the guardian deity of the Lhasa region and a prominent wealth deity. She is believed to bestow wealth and well-being on sentient beings, alleviate suffering, and remove both physical and mental toxins.
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My (Grandmaster Lu’s) karmic connection with Drashi Lhamo is a recent one. First, Dharma Sister Zhengyi brought me a statue of Drashi Lhamo from a Tibetan temple, which I then enshrined on the altar at South Mountain Retreat. When I joined my palms in reverence, Drashi Lhamo’s tongue extended, and beams of light radiated from her wide-open eyes. Wow! She seemed so vividly alive!

Later, during a group practice, she manifested together with Mahasri in the space before us. Drashi Lhamo is easy to recognize because of her unique form; her protruding tongue and wide-open eyes are already enough to frighten people, let alone her chicken feet!

For this reason, I pay special attention to her and pray for her protection over all True Buddha disciples.