Silver ru-gyèn

Mamo Ral-gÇigma (ma mo ral gCig ma / མ་མོ་རལ་གཅིག་མ་ / Matari Ékajati) the Single Braid Mother. When this statue was committed in Nepal it was stipulated that she was not made with ornaments — because we planned to add these later in fine detail. The silver ru-gyèn (rus rGyan / རུས་རྒྱན་) have now been made and fitted by Jan Hillman (Shédröl Khandro / shes sGrol mKha’ ‘gro / ཤེས་སྒྲོལ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་) one of our highly experienced silver smiths.
Ru-gyèn are the charnel ground ornaments worn by the wrathful yidams and the protectors.

Mamo Ral-gÇigma is primary protector of the Nyingma Tradition — particularly associated with Dzogchen. This is a section from her drübthab (grubs thab / གྲུབས་ཐབ་ / sadhana)

ཨེཿ མཿ ཧཿ —— É: Ma: Ho:
From the immeasurable omnivorous cloudbank of perpetual nondual serene-terror and terrible-serenity, arising as unremitting amorphous squalls of catastrophic wind-rent cirrus.
Ceaselessly seething as inchoate shimmering apparitionality in the violent vault of vastness.
Self-revealing as the billowing cumulous of utter dread: the self-consuming, self-manifesting, and self-occluding miasma of vituperate vajra vengeance. Indecipherable vajra phantoms inveigle their non-existence into the stealthy intellectual intestacies of vow breakers.
Body seething with nebulous ghosts which haunt the dreary deceptive delinquency of vow breakers.
Single staring eye penetrates subtle nuances.
Exposing every violation of view which perturbs the vajra ambiance of the Lamas’ dKyil’khor. Two cloud-closed eyes are heedless of the mindless mists which define conventional sight.
Witnessing every deviation from damtsig with pervasive perspicacity. Mouth gruesomely gaping.
Single razor tooth severing all grotesquely mundane tendencies to conventionalise the behaviour of the Lama. Single razor tooth piercing every attempt to compartmentalise the Lama’s teaching into the pigeon holes of peevish perversion.
Phantasmagorical laughter filling the sky.
ཧཿ ཧཿ ཧཿ ཧཿ ཧཿ Ha: Ha: Ha: Ha: Ha:
ridiculing every attempt to evade vajra responsibility for the fourteen root vows.