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HANUMAN MONKEY GOD THOGCHAG AMULET.

Chinese, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist?

Early 20th century.

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1.2 inches tall x 0.9  inches wide

CONDITION (please see the pictures)

Spiritual-Sky is releasing these special sacred and empowered items to the world. The reason for the release of these items is that the Earth as we know it is now a dark and dangerous place and we would like spiritual and sacred people to be part of the new awakening. There are very few people in the world who can feel and sense and need this sacred and special power.

To heal someone, you must first know why people suffer.  If through healing them, you can show them how to stop suffering, you have fulfilled your role as a physician.

At he heart of all suffering there is a spiritual remedy that comes about from knowing the relationships between karma and suffering.  Karma comes from the chaos that exists within all living creatures, all aspects of this world and the universe at large. Some chaos is good, some indifferent, some bad, but it is the stuff from which happiness and then enlightenment can be made.

This Garuda Thogchag amulet has a HUGE amount of power inside and when you hold it you will feel a sacred power like you have never felt in your life. There are very few people in the world who can feel and sense and need this sacred and special power.   

1.2 inches tall x 0.9  inches wide

This is a very unusual Thogchag amulet of Hanuman, the monkey God. We do not clean or restore our Thogchag amulets in any way. We list them in the same condition as we receive them. They are very delicate and can be damaged by any restoration or cleaning and we believe that the original earth, corrosion, weathering, dust and the original patina on an amulet increases its power and is actually a special part of the Thogchag amulet.

 

 

There are very few people in the world who can feel and sense and need this sacred and special power.

HINDU / BUDDHIST / TAOIST / INDIA/  CHINA - MONKEY LORE?

Monkey mythology is an important part of both Hindu/Buddhist lore (India) and Zodiac/Buddhist lore (China). In the various tales presented above, the monkey was originally portrayed as foolish (India and China), vain (China), and mischievous (both). Yet, in each tradition, the monkey learns valuable lessons along the way, makes changes, and eventually gains redemption. The monkey thus embodies the themes of responsibility and devotion, and more importantly, the promise of salvation to all who sincerely seek it. This symbolism is still common in Buddhism as practiced today. In modern meditation practices in many Buddhist sects, one must first subdue the ?monkey mind? before meditation can yield results. The goal is to overcome the restless monkey mindset, to stop jumping from branch to branch, to stop grabbing whatever fruit comes into sight, to stop being fooled by mere appearances. Salvation is within the grasp of all who seek it if they remain true, sincere, and dedicated.

The Sanskrit term Vanara means monkey or forest dweller. Other Sanskrit terms for monkey include Makata and Kapi. In India, the most widely known Vanara is Hanuman, the monkey warrior who appears in the epic Hindu tale Ramayana (5th to 4th century BCE). Even today, Hanuman is a very popular village God in southern, central and northern India, and artwork of Hanuman can still be found easily in India and other nations in Southeast Asia.

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Hanuman is a manifestation (avatar) of the Hindu god Shiva. In one version of the story, Shiva and Parvati (daughter of the mountain) transform themselves into monkeys and are playing amorous games in the forest when Hanuman is conceived. Since their union took place while in monkey form, Shiva realizes his child will be simian, and instructs Vayu (the wind god) to deposit the gestating seed into the womb of a female monkey named Anjana. Anjana was originally a celestial maiden (apsara) named Punjisthala, but a curse had transformed her into a monkey. Vayu possesses Anjana, with her consent, and she gives birth to Hanuman. Hanuman is thus also called Maruti (son of the wind) and Anjaneya (son of Anjan).

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THE MONKEY KING

Monkey King, or known to the Chinese old and young as Xi You Ji (Journey to the West), is one of the renowned classical Chinese novels dated back some four hundred years ago, the other three being Shui Hu (The Water Margins), Hong Lou Meng (Dream of the Red Mansion), and San Guo (Romance of Three Kingdoms).

Monkey King is based on a true story of a famous monk, Xuan Zang of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (602-664). After a decade of trials and tribulations, he arrived on foot to what is today India, the birthplace of Buddhism. He was there for the true Buddhist holy books. When he returned, Xuan Zang translated the Sutras into Chinese, thus making a great contribution to the development of Buddhism in China.

Monkey King is an allegorical rendition of the journey, mingled with Chinese fables, fairy tales, legends, superstitions, popular beliefs, monster stories, and whatever the author could find in the Taoist, Buddhist, and Chinese popular religions. While average readers are fascinated with the prowess and wisdom of the Monkey King, many reviewers agree that the protagonist embodies what the author tried to convey to his readers: a rebellious spirit against the then untouchable feudal rulers.

The monkey is indeed rebellious. He was, according to the story, born out of a rock, fertilized by the grace of Heaven and Earth. Being extremely intelligent, he has learned all the magic tricks and gongfu from an immortal Taoist master. Now he can transform himself into seventy-two different images such as a tree, a bird, a beast of prey, or an insect that can sneak into an enemy's body to fight him or her inside out. Using clouds as a vehicle, he can travel 108,000 miles at a single somersault.

He claims to be The King in defiance of the only authority over the heaven, the seas, the earth and the subterranean world -- Yù Huáng Dà Dì, or "The Great Emperor of Jade." That act of high treason, coupled with complaints from the masters of the four seas and the Hell, incurs the relentless scourge of the heavenly army. In fact, the monkey has fought into the ocean and seized the Dragon King's crown treasure: a huge gold-banded iron rod used as a ballast of the waters. Able to expand or shrink at his command, the iron rod becomes the monkey's favorite weapon in his later feats. The first test of its power came when the monkey stormed into hell and threatened the Hadean king into sparing his and his followers mortal life so that they all could enjoy eternity.

After many showdowns with the fearless Monkey King, the heavenly army have suffered numerous humiliating defeats. The celestial monarch has but to give the dove faction a chance to try their appeasement strategy?to offer the monkey an official title in heaven with little authority. When he has learned the truth that he is nothing but an object of ridicule, the enraged monkey revolts, fighting all his way back to earth to resume his original claim as The King.

Eventually, the heavenly army, enlisting the help of all the god warriors with diverse tricks, manages to capture the barely invincible monkey. He is sentenced to capital punishment. However, all methods of execution fail. Having a bronze head and iron shoulders, the monkey dulls many a sword inflicted upon him. As the last resort, the emperor commands that he be incinerated in the furnace where his Taoist minister Tai Shang Lao Jun refines his pills of immortality. Instead of killing the monkey, the fire and smoke therein sharpened his eyes so that he now can see through things that others cannot. He fights his way back to earth again.

At his wit's end, the celestial emperor asks Buddha for help. Buddha imprisons the monkey under a great mountain known as Wu Zhi Shan (The Mount of Five Fingers). The tenacious monkey survives the enormous weight and pressure. Five hundred years later, there comes to his rescue the Tang Monk, Xuan Zang, whom we mentioned at the beginning of the story.

To make sure that the monk can make for the West to get the Sutras, Buddha has arranged for Monkey King to become the monk's escort in the capacity of his disciple. soon on their way to the west, two more disciples, also at the will of the Buddha, join their company. One is the humorous and not uncourageous pig transgressed from an inebrious celestial general for his assault against a fairy; the other a sea monster who also used to be a celestial general now in exile for a misdemeanour.

The party of four was further reinforced by a horse, an incarnation of a dragon's son, start their stormy journey to the West -- a journey packed with actions and adventures that brought into full play the puissance of the monks' disciples, Monkey King in particular.

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MONKEY LORE.

Monkey lore plays a prominent role in the early years of Buddhism in India. Among hundreds of tales in the Jataka -- perhaps the oldest extant collection of Buddhist folklore originating in India and Sri Lanka around the 3rd century BC -- the Historical Buddha was said to have lived many prior lives in many different forms before attaining enlightenment.

In the Jataka tales, he appears often in the form of a monkey (Nandiya)  as other animals, as a human, and even as a god. But throughout, he practices generosity, courage, justice, and patience until finally achieving Buddhahood. The Pali Jatakas record 123 past lives as an animal, 357 as a human, and 66 as a God. Devadatta, a cousin of the Historical Buddha, also appears in the various Jataka stories in multiple incarnations, typically as the villain.

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Thogchags: are Ancient Tibetan talismans (amulets) which are traditionally worn next to the body for protection, healing and good luck. They can also be fastened to clothing, tied to religious articles, carried in the pocket, tied to other sacred amulets and worn around the neck.  Thogchag amulets have been used in sacred religious rituals for thousands of years to dispel evil and all negative energy and to bring good luck, healing and prosperity in all its forms.  Thogchags were frequently used by the Tibetan Shamen in their healing rituals and were often given to the person in need of healing as these sacred amulets have a huge amount of sacred energy and magical power and would speed up the healing process.  Thogchags are very sacred amulets and are believed to have fallen from the sky and are magically formed and not manufactured by human beings. Thogchags are made of Bronze and meteoritic metals and date back as far as the Bronze Age. Thogchag translates as Sky-Iron? or Heavenly Iron?

# Ancient Thogchag amulets ( 1000 years old and much older) are becoming increasingly difficult to find.  This Thogchag is not ancient ( 1000 years or older) or made from meteorite metals. Thogchags are made of various copper alloys that are not bronze in the technical Western sense. In Tibet they are known overall as 'li', which means 'bronze'. Thogchag now is generally used to mean old pieces in copper alloy that have been worn by Tibetans as protective pendants at some point in their history.

 It is important that Thogchag amulets be treated with respect.

“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”

  His Royal Highness the Dalai Lama X1V

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GOOD FORTUNE

GOOD FORTUNE:  comes about when the energies of your body and mind click together. This is not just about the creation of wealth: good fortune is the experience when you know deep inside you that everything is right with the world. It is when you and the divine enjoy each others company. Good fortune is a natural state of mind that is part of who you are. It is inside you, just wanting to be released. Start by asking for it. Be humble and receive. If you seek good fortune unskilfully- in other words, selfishly- you will create obstructions. Good fortune never ever comes in a way that you expect it, so open your heart for a happy suprise. You keep your good fortune by sharing it and learning from it, not by showing it off. Use your good fortune by showing other people how to access it, based on your own experience.

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LOVING ENERGY IS IN IN EVERYTHING

Whatever your circumstances, your immediate surroundings contain boundless positive energy. According to ancient Tibetan medicine, matter is slow-moving energy, and your consciousness can make any matter relax, open and become pliable. You can make it speed up or slow down. The energy in your surroundings is like a golden cup covered with grime, which your mind can clean so that it shines with love and positivity. The Tibetans believe that the material world, the universe and the mind go through cycles of rejuvenation. By working with the cycles, you unlock within yourself the basis of rejuvenation. You can use your body's inner cycle.

In the cycle of life there is an appropriate time for all things to happen.

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For centuries many Buddhists have believed that by carrying a Blessed Amulet with Buddha images, Luang Phor (Thai Buddhist Monks) or Gods you will be given good luck, and protection. Blessed amulets will guard you from danger, will dispel evil and negative bad and dangerous energy, and protect you from disease. It is believed that a blessed  Buddhist amulet will help you to gain great wealth and will guard you and give you success while you are at home, at work, or travelling. Sacred amulets can be cast from metal or carved from a piece of wood, ivory, bone, or made from a special magical powder that contains hundreds of different special and secret ingredients that are then pressed into a mould and then baked. After this is done the amulets are blessed by monks in order to give the wearer the sacred spiritual power of protection.

    

Paying homage to Buddha

Tradition ascribes to the Buddha himself instruction on how to pay him homage. Just before he died, he saw his faithful attendant Ananda, weeping. The Buddha advised him not to weep, but to understand the universal law that all compounded things (including even his own body) must disintegrate. He advised everyone not to cry over the disintegration of the physical body but to regard his teachings (The Dharma) as their teacher from then on, because only the Dharma truth is eternal and not subject to the law of change. He also stressed that the way to pay homage to him was not merely by offering flowers, incense, and lights, but by truly and sincerely striving to follow his teachings. This is how devotees are expected to celebrate Vesak: to use the opportunity to reiterate their determination to lead noble lives, to develop their minds, to practise loving-kindness and to bring peace and harmony to humanity.

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There are very few people in the world who can feel and sense and need this sacred and special power.

 It is important that sacred Thogchag amulets be treated with respect.

Shamanism is humanity's oldest form of relationship to the spirit world. As such, it is the underpinning beneath all religion. But shamanism is not a religion. It is a complex set of practices, beliefs, values and behaviors that enable the practicioner to elicit a shift from ordinary consiousness into a trance state with a specific goal in mind, such as for healing, obtaining information, power, vision, divination, contacting the spirit of the deceased, soul retrieval or guidance for right action. Shamanic work is done with the aid of a helping ally of some sorts that the shaman has befriended. They work together as a cooperative team, with the ally being an intermediary between different levels of reality and the shaman, an engineer of altering states of consciousness.

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Shamans throughout the world and throughout time, recognize that the universe is alive, conscious, and filled with spiritual power. Shamans know how to access this web of power and work with it skillfully and effectively to address their, and their community's needs. Shamanism is the use of shamanic practices within a shamanic value system. Traditionally a shaman goes through the experience of a "calling", usually through illness, accident or some unusual quality of being, then through an arduous apprenticeship of teaching, training and testing, followed by some sort of passage rite into their new status. Typically shaman do not define themselves as such. Instead they are defined by their community based on what it is that they do. Becoming a shaman and living as a shaman is a difficult and demanding life path that many indigenous people shy away from because of its formidable requirements. It is not about fun and glamor. Unskillful and uneducated acts can cause harm, or even be life-threatening, to the practicioner as well as to others. For shamanism deals with power, and power can move in many different ways, like electricity. It is important to move slowly with respect, humility and care.

In the cycle of life there is an appropriate time for all things to happen.

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