Troma Nagmo
Andreas Walsh
The Troma Nagmo Project
The purpose of the Troma Nagmo Project is to collect the major primary (Terma) sources of the Troma practices as revealed by Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904) and publish them in digital format, making them freely available to all practitioners and students of this tradition. Important secondary sources, such as supportive texts written by lamas of the lineage, will be added as the project develops, as well as Troma Nagmo Termas revealed by tertons before and after Dudjom Lingpa.
The Project will be under the direction of Rinpoche Pema Rangrig whose family has been Troma Nagmo practitioners for three generations.
Troma Nagmo
(Sanskrit: Krishna Krodhini) -- a wrathful form of Vajravarahi and the deity associated with Chöd Practice. Chöd, the art of surrendering all sense of self, is associated with Machik Labdrön (1050-1149), the Tibetan female saint who is considered an emanation of Troma Nagmo and received Chöd teachings from the Indian Mahamudra master and Chöd lineage master Padampa Sangye.Troma represents the wisdom of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in a wrathful female form. She is pictured as black because she represents the secrecy and mystery of things that are outside normal worldly experience. She is pictured as wrathful because she represents a fierce dedication to the path of enlightenment and because her practice requires intense and consuming dedication from those who follow it, as well as a willingness to genuinely reject one's old world.
Troma Nagmo is mainly practiced in the Terma (Revealed Treasure) Tradition of the Nyingmapa School, but is now seen in all the Sarma (new) Schools of Tibetan Buddhism to a greater or lesser extent, adapted from the original practice lineage belonging to the Zhije School of Phadampa Sanggye .