༄༅། །གཙུག་ཏོར་གདུགས་དཀར་བསྒོམས་བཟླས་བདེ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་ཞིང་དུ་བགྲོད་པའི་གདམས་པ་བྱ་རྒྱལ་ཁྱུང་གི་རྟ་ཕོ་བཞུགས་སོ། །
The Swift Steed of Garuda, King of Birds: An Instruction for Traveling to Sukhavati: A Visualization and Recitation of Ushnisa-Sitatapatra
By Karma Chakme
To practice this short sadhana of the deity Sitatapatra (Dukkar, “White Parasol”) is, in the words of the text itself, “to hold aloft an indestructible vajra sword that can avert disease, obstacles, black magic, evil spells and all oppressing forces.” The sadhana is also said to be a swift means of traveling to Sukhavati, akin to flying on the back of a garuda.
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