Dombi Heruka
Dombi Heruka (dom bhi he ru ka), "Heruka of the Washer Caste" was one of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas of India. He is usually depicted riding a tiger. He wrote the Accomplishment of the Innate, one of the Seven Sections of Accomplishment a set of seven scriptures composed by Indian mahasiddhas.
Dombi Heruka accepts five special qualities of Mantrayana:
- Here there is the special quality of the recipient,
- The special quality of the teaching given,
- The special quality of the scriptures, and of the path;
- Thus through the special quality of fruition
- This vehicle of Mantra is especially exhalted.
Alternate Names
- Dombhi Heruka
- Dombipa
- Dombipāda(dom bhi he ru ka):
According to Indrabhuti, Mantrayana is superior due to these seven special qualities of Mantrayana: the special quality of the master, recipient, ritual, activities, commitment, view of training, and conduct.
Moreover, according to the master Jnana Shri, Mantrayana is superior due to these eleven special qualities of Mantrayana: the skillful means of focusing on this unexcelled aim, of unexcelled practice, of unexcelled wisdom, of unexcelled exertion, of the capacity to accept all disciples without exception, of the consecration of these disturbing emotions, of swift blessings, of quick results, of the abandonment of disturbing emotions, of unexcelled attitude, and finally, the skillful means of unexcelled conduct. (JOKYAB) (RY) from The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 1, pg. 280.