King Dza
King Dza was king of the Himalayan kingdom of Zahor. He was no military commander or politician and neither was he a sybarite.
He was a yogin practitioner of the lower Buddhist tantras - Kriya and Charya tantras - and religiously performed his ritual duties at the various times of day, and on the significant days of the moon's progress, creating mandalas and yantras and reciting the mantras with faith and devotion.
When the Master of Secrets, Vajrapani, taught the tantras to the vidyadhara knowledge holders of the five families on Mount Malaya, his life was transformed. He had a dream and the dream had seven episodes.
He dreamed that the signs of body, speech and mind dissolved into his own; that an invaluable volume of scripture rained down;
that discussion of the dharma occurred; that he was universally glorified as a saint; that a vast offering was prepared; that precious stones rained down; and that he attained Buddhahood.
When king Dza woke up the next morning, he found that a volume of scriptures had fallen upon the Zahor palace roof.
Amongst the many collections of these tantric texts was the Sarvabuddhasamayoga-tantra, a seminal work on Dzogchen Mahayoga and also the Mayajala-tantra and the Guhyagarbha-tantra.
An eighteen inch image of Vajrapani also fell with the texts.
King Dza tried to read the texts but he could not decipher them.
Finally, however, through the method of prayer and worship of the image of Vajrapani, he intuitively understood the chapter of the Mayajala-tantra that vouchsafed a vision of Vajrasattva.
This was The Chapter on Direct Perception.
With this text to guide him, he contemplated the face of Vajrasattva for seven months and at the end of that period the Bodhisattva himself appeared and gave him awareness initiation and empowerment.
Thereafter King Dza could understand both the words and the meanings of the tantras and he was empowered to teach them.
But in order to give credence to the notion of verbal transmission, pretending that he could not understand the texts, he showed them to the Acharya Kukkuraja.
It is said that Kukkuraja in the guise of a dog taught as many as a thousand dogs by day and by night maintained the commitment to enjoyment with them.
Anyhow, Kukkuraja also accomplished the direct perception of Vajrasattva and after seeing the face of Vajrasattva, Vajrapani taught him the meaning of the tantras.
Furthermore, through this accomplishment, Vajrapani appeared to him in reality and initiated him into the essential meaning and into all the tantras to completion and instructed him to ask the Bhikshu called Licchavi Vimalakirti who was a vidyadhara (but of whom we know nothing more) for the lexical transmission.
After proceeding according to Vajrapani's instruction, the Acharya divided the tantras into eighteen groups and gave the full scholarly transmission to King Dza.
Some say that King Dza was a name of Indrabhuti, the King of Uddiyana.
