A Guide to Self-Consecration Filling for Sacred Tibetan Buddha Statues

Self-Consecration Statue Filling Guide

Before You Begin 

This guide is intended for devotees who do not have access to a qualified lama to perform the traditional consecration ceremony. 

If you can find an empowered lama to conduct the filling, that is always the preferred and most auspicious method.

 

I. Preparations Before Consecration

1.Consecration Pack - take out all items inside.

Note:The quantity and sizes of items in a specific pack vary according to the statue's name and size.

Items List:

a. Mantra scrolls - organize all the Mantra Scrolls in numerical order.
If the number is obscured, please refer to the Tibetan-English reference list.①
b. Yellow Stick - The core pillar, representing the spine
c.Various medicinal powders and mani pills in colored plastic bags.
d.Five Individual Mandala paper
e.No. H82 - 1 yellow sheet of four-interlinked-mandalas pattern.②

Note:
①Due to the limited internal space of the small-sized statue, we consolidate multiple mantras onto a few scrolls to minimize the volume.
②The small-sized Buddha statue(below 23cm height) does not include this paper.

2.Auxiliary Filling Material

To fill the remaining space inside the statue, we recommend using dried tea leaves.
They are standardized, easy to obtain, and resistant to insect infestation.

3.Statue Preparation

Cover the statue's face to prevent scratches and damage.
Place the statue in a stable, upside-down position for easy and safe filling.
Open the baseplate of the statue,clean the hollow interior to ensure it is pure.

4.Audio of The Dependent-Arising Mantra

play it throughout the entire consecration ceremony.

5.Clean your hands and wear a mask.

Maintain a clean and hygienic environment.

Consecration of a 70cm-tall Amitayus Buddha Statue

II.The Ritual Process of Consecration

The sacred consecration process of a Buddha statue begins with placing a relic or mani pill into the crown, symbolizing the Buddha's enlightened mind. The statue is then meticulously filled with mantra rolls, including those specific to the head, throat, heart, and the particular Buddha the statue represents.

To ensure no voids remain, layers of fine incense powder or tea are packed between each stratum of mantras. Precious substances such as a precious pill, crushed semi-precious stones, and gold leaf are placed within the lotus base. The cavity is further anointed with fragrant incenses before the 'Five Mandalas' are positioned, crowned by a vajra seal.

Finally, the opening is covered with yellow silk, and the base is securely sealed using natural glue, ensuring the sacred contents remain intact for eternity.

 

Elaborate Directions

Ⅲ.Filling Sequence for a 16cm Statue:

1. Part 1: Head - Throat
A. White mani pill (Brain)
B. Red mani pill (Throat)
C. Green mani pill (Heart)
D. No. 40 scroll of head and throat
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...

2. Part 2: Chest and Abdomen
A. Spine
B. Longest scroll (Contains all mantras for the upper and lower body)
C. Yellow, orange, and beige mani pills
D. Scrolls: No. 15, 17, 19 + Specific Buddha mantra (e.g., Medicine Buddha mantra is No. 043)
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...
E. Place the 5 mandalas according to the image sequence, with Mandalas 1-4 facing the statue's head, and Mandala 5 facing the statue's base.
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder... Ensure no empty space remains.

3. Part 3: Base Cover
A. Close the base cover and glue it around the edges.
B. Cover the entire base with yellow cloth, trimming off any excess.
C. Stamp the center of the yellow cloth with a crossed vajra seal.
END

Ⅳ.Filling Sequence for a 23cm Statue

Part 1: Head
A. White mani pill (Brain)  
B. Scrolls 1–3  
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...

Part 2: Throat
A. Red mani pill (Throat)  
B. Scrolls 4–7  
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...

Part 3: Chest
A. Green mani pill (Heart)  
B. Scrolls 8–13, specific Buddha mantra(e.g., White Tara mantra is No. 051)
C. Yellow stick (Spine)  
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...

Part 4: Abdomen
A. Yellow, orange, and beige mani pills  
B. Scrolls 14, 15, 17, 19  
C. Remaining scrolls  
D. White, red, yellow, and green medicinal powders  
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...  
E. Place the five mandalas according to the diagram: Mandalas 1–4 facing the statue’s head, Mandala 5 facing the base.  
...Fill with tea leaves or incense powder until no space remains...

Part 5: Base Cover
a. Close the base cover and glue it around the edges.
b. Cover the entire base with yellow cloth, trimming off any excess.
c. Stamp the center of the yellow cloth with a crossed vajra seal.
END

Ⅴ.Filling Sequence for a 33cm(and above) Statue

Part 1: Head
A. White mani pill (Brain)  
B. Scrolls 1–3  
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...

Part 2: Throat
A. Red mani pill (Throat)  
B. Scrolls 4–7  
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...

Part 3: Chest
A. Green mani pill (Heart)  
B. Scrolls 8–13, specific Buddha mantra(e.g., White Tara mantra is No. 051)
C. Yellow stick (Spine)  
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder...

Part 4: Abdomen
A. Yellow, orange, and beige mani pills
B. Scrolls 14, 15, 17, 19
C. Remaining scrolls
D. White, red, yellow, and green medicinal powders
...Fill a layer of tea leaves or incense powder... 
E. Fold and insert H82 yellow mandala paper
F.Place the five mandalas according to the diagram: Mandalas 1–4 facing the statue’s head, Mandala 5 facing the base.
...Fill with tea leaves or incense powder until no space remains...

Part 5: Base Cover
a. Close the base cover and glue it around the edges.
b. Cover the entire base with yellow cloth, trimming off any excess.
c. Stamp the center of the yellow cloth with a crossed vajra seal.
END

 

Ⅵ.Complete List of All Mantras of Consecration

༄༅།། གསེར་ལྗོངས་ནང་བསྷན་འགན་འཁྲེ་ཚད་ཡོད་ཀུང་ཟེའེ་གཟུངས་འབུལ་ཞབས་ཞུའེ་རྣམ་གྲངས།
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ཨང་། No.	གཟུངས། Scrolls	English	Position
01	དབུ་གཟུངས།	Head Mantra	Head
02	མགྲིན་གཟུངས།	Throat Mantra	Head
03	མཚན་སྔགས།	Heart Mantra	Head
04	སྐུ་སྟོད།	Body Mantra	Throat
05	བླ་མེད་རྒྱུད།	Anuttarayoga Tantra	Throat
06	རྣལ་འགྱོར་རྒྱུད།	Yoga Tantra	Throat
07	ཐུགས་གཟུངས།	Essential Mantra	Throat
08	སྤྱོད་རྒྱུད།	Carya Tantra	Heart
09	བྱ་རྒྱུད།	Kriya Tantra	Heart
10	དབང་སྡུད།	Pacifying and Subduing	Heart
11	སྐུ་རྐེད་གཟུངས།	Body Relic Mantra	Heart
12	མདོ་གཟུངས།	Sutra-Mantra	Heart
13	གསོ་སྦྱོང་།	Healing Practice Mantra	Heart
14	ཡངས་གྲོང་།		Body/Base
15	འཁྲུགས་སེལ།	Dispelling Conflict	Body/Base
16 out of stock	ངན་གསུང་སྐྱེ་དགོས་གཟུངས	A mantra to purify harmful speech	Body/Base
17 out of stock	རྟེན་སྙིང་།	Heart-Support Relic	Body/Base
18	སྙིག་མའི་རྒུད་ཞུ	Confession and Purification of Misdeeds	Body/Base
19	གཟུངས་ཆེན་སྡེ་ལྔ།	Five Sections of Great Mantras	Body/Base
20	ཆོས་སྐྱོང་།	Nyingma Dharmapala Mantra	Body/Base
21	འདོད་གསོལ།	Ransom Ritual	Body/Base
22	བརྟན་བཞུགས།	Remain Stable	Body/Base
23	ནོར་ལྷ།	5 Jambhalas	Body/Base
24	ཤིས་བརྗོད།	Auspiciousness	Body/Base
25	བཀྲ་ཤིས།	Auspicious Prayers	Body/Base
26	པད་གཟུངས།	Lotus Mantra	Body/Base
27 out of stock	-
28 out of stock	-
29	འོད་ཟེར་དྲི་མེད།	Immaculate Radiance		Stupa
30	གཙུག་ཧོར་དྲི་མེད།	Ushnisha-Vimaloshnisha Mantra		Stupa
31	-
32	དགེ་ལུགས་ཐུགས་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Gelug	Heart
33	དགེ་ལུགས་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་།	Mantra of Gelug Dharmapala	Heart
34	ས་སྐྱའི་རང་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Sakya's Self-Arising	Heart
35	ས་སྐྱའི་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་།	Mantra of Sakya Dharmapala	Heart
36	བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་རང་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Kagyu's Self-Arising	Heart
37	བདེ་གསང་འཇིགས་གསུམ།	The Three Deities of Peaceful, Secret, and Wrathful Aspects	Heart
38	གཏོར་མའི་གཟུངས།	Mantra for Torma Offering		Torma
39	གཟུངས་ཆ་ཚང་།	Full Mantra Sadhana for Base	Body/Base
40	དབུ་མགྲིན།	Mantras for the Head and Throat	Head and Throat	for 16cm statue
41	ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།	Mantra of Shakyamuni	Heart
42	འོད་དཔག་མེང།	Mantra of Amitabha	Heart
43	སྨན་བླ།	Mantra of Medicine Buddha	Heart
44	རྡོར་སེམས།	Mantra of Vajrasattva	Heart
45	མི་ལགྲུགས་པ།	Mantra of Akshobhya	Heart
46	འཇམ་དབྱངས།	Mantra of Manjusri	Heart
47	སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས།	Mantra of Chenrezig	Heart
48	ཕྱག་རྡོར།	Mantra of Vajrapani	Heart
49	ཚེ་དཔག་མེང།	Mantra of Amitayus	Heart
50	རྣམ་རྒྱའ་མ།	Mantra of Ushnisha Vijaya	Heart
51	སྒྲོལ་དཀར།	Mantra of White Tara	Heart
52	སྒྲོལ་ལྗང་།	Mantra of Green Tara	Heart
53	མཁན་ཆེན་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Santaraksita	Heart
54	གུ་རུ་སིངྷི།	Mantra of Guru Rinpoche	Heart
55	ཆོས་རྒྱལ་གཟུངས།	Mantra of King Trisong Detsen	Heart
56	ཕུར་བ། །	Mantra of Vajrakilaya	Heart
57	རྟ་མགྲིན།	Mantra of Hayagriva	Heart
58	གུར་དྲག།	Mantra of Guru Dragpo	Heart
59	གུ་རུ་མཚན་བརྒྱད།	Mantra of The Eight Aspects of Guru Rinpoche	Heart
60	བྱམས་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Maitreya	Heart
61	ཛཾ་བྷ་ལྷ།	Mantra of Yellow Jambhala	Heart
62	སྲི་བཟློག	Averting Rituals of Stupa		Stupa
63	མཆོད་རྟེན་བྱེ་འགྱུར།	Transformation of the Stupa into Myriads		Stupa
64	དམིགས་བརྩེ་མ།	Mantra of Je Tsongkhapa	Heart
65	རྗེ་ཡབ་སྲས།	Je Tsongkhapa and His 2 Chief Disciples	Heart
66	སཱཙྖའི་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Tsa Tsa		Tsa Tsa
67	རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོ།	Mantra of Dharmadhatu Victory Banner		Victory Banner
68	གདུགས་དཀར།	Mantra of Sitatapatra	Heart
69	ཐང་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་པོ།	Mantra of Thangtong Gyalpo	Heart
70	གེ་སར་གཟུངས།	Mantra of King Gesar	Heart
71	གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག	Mantra of The 16 Arhats	Heart
72 out of stock	རང་གཟུངས་སྣ་ཚོགས།	Various Self-Arising Mantras
73	དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།	Mantra of Palden Lhamo	Heart
74	སྒྲིབ་སེལ་གྱི་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Purifying Obscurations		Stupa
75	སྲོག་ཤིང་བརྟན་པའི་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Stabilizing the Life-Force Tree		Stupa
76	བསྐོར་བའི་གཟུདས།	Mantra of Circumambulation		Stupa
77	སྲོག་ཤིང་གི་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Repelling		Stupa
78	ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ།	Samantabhadra's Heart Mantra		Statue
79	དུས་གསུམ་སངས་རྒྱས།	Mantra of Buddhas of the Three Times		Statue
80	ས་སྙིང་གི་གཟུངས།	Mantra of Ksitigarbha		Statue
81	བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཏེར་བུམ།	Mantra of the Auspicious Treasure Vase		Vase
82	ཀླུ་བུམ།	Mantra of the Naga Vase		Vase
83	གཡང་བུམ།	Mantra of the Fortune-Gathering Vase		Vase
84 out of stock	བོད་ཁམས་བདེ་བྱེད།	Auspicious Prayer for the Peaceful Preservation of the Teachings		Vase
85 out of stock	ཉེས་སེལ་བུམ་པ།	Mantra of Purifying Transgressions		Vase
86 out of stock	ས་སྙིང་བརྟན་མ།	Ksitigarbha's Unshakable Mantra
87 out of stock	ནཱ་རི་སྤྱི་བཅོས།	Naro Khechara's Healing Method
88 out of stock	བླ་མ་ལུང་རྟོགས་ཀིུས་མཚན་སྔགས	Mantra of the Guru who Embodies the Union of Scriptural Transmission and Realization
89 out of stock	ཁྲོ་བཅུའི་གཟུངས	Mantra of the Ten Wrathful Deities
90 out of stock	མཚོ་རྒྱལ་དང་མཎྡར་བའི་གཟུངས།	Mantra of the Lake King and Mandala Offering