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Machik’s Complete Explanation Thereupon the great wisdom ˜›kinı, sublime birth mother of all buddhas of the three times, the source of all wisdom ˜›kinıs, secret awareness wisdom, Vajrav›rahı the awareness [aspect] of Cakrasaªvara, the chief ˜›kinıs of Nair›tmy› Great Secret, manifested in the wrathful dark-blue form of the changeless realm of reality and brought all ˜›kinıs under her control. This sublime chief of great transcendent knowledge, known as Dorje Dudulma (Vajra Devil-Tamer),66 abides in the pure realm of Kecara. But due to the power of karmic forces and previous aspirations, her intention to help beings produced birth in the city of Kapila in India as the child of R›ja ⁄rısura firya under the name Mönlam Drup. The Buddha himself prophesied that she was destined to tame beings in Tibet. In the eighty-second chapter of the SÒtra Distinguishing the Essence from the Residue 67 it says: When degeneration and conflict increase In the northern Land of Snow, An emanation of the victors’ mother Named Drönma will come. Also, in the root tantra of MañjuŸrı, King of Tantras:68 During the degeneration of my doctrine In the Land of Snows to the north, A mind emanation of the Great Mother Wisdom Called Lapkyi Drönma will come. Teaching the meaning of unborn essence, She will wander through towns, villages, and valleys, Charnel grounds and hermitages, And her teachings will spread. So the pa˚˜ita that was prophesied by the Buddha, called Döndrup Rinchen,69 realized it was time to fulfill his destiny with the people of Tibet. In particular, there were four ˜›kinıs who had taken birth in Tibet and were threatening to take control of all of Tibet. The time had come to subdue those four heretical ˜›kinıs. So she emanated as four wisdom ˜›kinıs in Tibet. The first is Machik Zhama of Latö, and she will tame beings by means of the Path and Fruition teachings.70 The second is Zhangcham Dröchungma