Guhyasamāja Practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna System - Vol. 1
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****{{i|Drawing the Deities into One's Body|251}} | ****{{i|Drawing the Deities into One's Body|251}} | ||
****{{i|Placing the Deities into the Mandala of Ultimate Reality|257}} | ****{{i|Placing the Deities into the Mandala of Ultimate Reality|257}} | ||
| − | Taking the Intermediate State as the Path to the | + | ***{{i|Taking the Intermediate State as the Path to the Enjoyment Body|273}} |
| − | Enjoyment Body 273 | + | ***{{i|Taking Rebirth as the Path to the Emanation Body|284}} |
| − | Taking Rebirth as the Path to the Emanation Body 284 | + | ****{{i|Generating the Emanation-Body Form of Vajradhara|285}} |
| − | Generating the Emanation-Body Form of Vajradhara 285 | + | ****{{i|Creating the Body Mandala|294}} |
| − | Creating the Body Mandala 294 | + | *****{{i|Creating the Body Mandala’s Residence|295}} |
| − | Creating the Body Mandala’s Residence 295 | + | *****{{i|Creating the Body Mandala’s Deities|304}} |
| − | Creating the Body Mandala’s Deities 304 | + | ****{{i|Blessing the Body, Speech, and Mind of Vajradhara's Emanation-Body Form|319}} |
| − | Blessing the Body, Speech, and Mind of | + | ****{{i|Generating the Three Tiered Beings|337}} |
| − | Emanation-Body Form 319 | + | ****{{i|Affixing the Seal of the Lineage Lord|341}} |
| − | Generating the Three Tiered Beings 337 | + | ***{{i|Preparing a Knowledge Consort|345}} |
| − | Affixing the Seal of the Lineage Lord 341 | + | |
| − | Preparing a Knowledge Consort 345 | + | *{{i|2. The Foremost King of Mandalas|363}} |
| − | 2. The Foremost King of Mandalas 363 | + | **{{i|Generating the Mandala Palace and Its Divine Residents|363}} |
| − | Generating the Mandala Palace and Its Divine Residents 363 | + | **{{i|Emitting the Mandala Deities|377}} |
| − | Emitting the Mandala Deities 377 | + | **{{i|Emitting the Mandala Palace|409}} |
| − | Emitting the Mandala Palace 409 | + | |
| − | 3. The Foremost King of Activities 411 | + | *{{i|3. The Foremost King of Activities|411}} |
| − | Spiritual Practices Carried Out during Meditation Sessions 411 | + | **{{i|Spiritual Practices Carried Out during Meditation Sessions|411}} |
| − | The Practice of the Subtle Drop 411 | + | ***{{i|The Practice of the Subtle Drop|411}} |
| − | Mantra Recitation 422 | + | ***{{i|Mantra Recitation|422}} |
| − | Reappearance of the Deity Who Dissolved 442 | + | ***{{i|Reappearance of the Deity Who Dissolved|442}} |
| − | Reciting Verses of Praise, Presenting Offerings, | + | ***{{i|Reciting Verses of Praise, Presenting Offerings, and Tasting Nectar|448}} |
| − | and Tasting Nectar 448 | + | ****{{i|Reciting the Verses of Praise|449}} |
| − | Reciting the Verses of Praise 449 | + | ****{{i|Presenting the Outer Offerings|452}} |
| − | Presenting the Outer Offerings 452 | + | ****{{i|Tasting the Nectar of the Inner Offering|457}} |
| − | Tasting the Nectar of the Inner Offering 457 | + | ****{{i|The Secret Offering and the Offering of Ultimate Reality|466}} |
| + | ***{{i|Dissolution|468}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|The Generation-Stage Portion of the Aspirational Prayer|472}} | ||
| + | **{{i|Spiritual Practices Carried Out between Meditation Sessions|500}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|The Yoga of Ordinary Activities|501}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|Blessings One’s Residence|502}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|Blessing One’s Clothing|503}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|The Spiritual Practice That Relates to Bathing|503}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|The Spiritual Practices That Relate to Sleeping and Waking Up|504}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|The Meditative Absorption That Relates to Food|507}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|Reinvigorating the Body|512}} | ||
| + | ***{{i|The Methods of Achieving the Common Spiritual Attainments|512}} | ||
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The Initial Practice 517 | The Initial Practice 517 | ||
Preliminaries 517 | Preliminaries 517 | ||
Revision as of 18:17, 14 September 2020
The Guhyasamāja Tantra is one of the Unexcelled Yoga Tantras of Vajrayana Buddhism. In the initial, generation-stage practice, one engages in a prescribed sequence of visualizations of oneself as an enlightened being in a purified environment in order to prepare one’s mind and body to engage in the second stage: the completion stage. The latter works directly with the subtle energies of one’s mind and body and transforms them into the enlightened mind and body of a buddha. In this book, Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa, a former abbot of Gyumé Tantric College, provides complete instructions on how to practice the generation stage of Guhyasamāja, explaining the visualizations, offerings, and mantras involved, what they symbolize, and the purpose they serve. These instructions, which are usually imparted only orally from master to student after the student has been initiated into the Guhyasamāja mandala, are now being published in English for the first time and are supplemented by extracts from key written commentaries in the footnotes to support practitioners who have received the required transmissions from a holder of this lineage. The complete self-generation ritual is included in the second part of the book, with the Tibetan on facing pages, which can be used by those who read Tibetan and want to recite the ritual in Tibetan. (Source: Shambhala Publications)
| Citation | Engle, Artemus B., trans. Guhyasamāja Practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna System. Vol. 1, The Generation Stage. By Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications, 2019. |
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