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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.

Tibetan Buddha Statue Filling & Consecration Pack

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

16cm -consecration pack items position - for 16cm height statue -Tibetan Statue Filling & Consecration Process

Bottom Cover and Seal-Tibetan Statue Filling & Consecration Process-End
Bottom Cover and Seal-Tibetan Statue Filling & Consecration Process-End


.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

24cm - consecration pack items position - for 24cm height statue -Tibetan Statue Filling & Consecration Process



.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།
Ser Temple Management Committee in Sertar County

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

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