Tantric Techniques (100 page)

Vinayadatta (
’dul bas byin
)

Rite of the Great Illusion Ma
ṇḍ
ala

gur
ū
pade
ś
an
ā
mamah
ā
m
ā
y
ā
ma
ṇḍ
alop
ā
yika

sgyu ’phrul chen mo’i dkyil ’khor gyi cho ga bla ma’i zhal snga’i man ngag P2517, vol. 57; Toh. 1645

Yang-jen-ga-way-lo-drö, A-kya-yong-dzin (
dbyangs can dga' ba'i blo gros, a khya yongs 'dzin,
c. 1750)

Lamp Thoroughly Illuminating the Presentation of the Three Basic Bodies

gzhi’i sku gsum gyi rnam gzhag rab gsal sgron me

Collected Works of A-kya Yongs-’dzin, vol. 1. New Delhi: Lama Guru Deva 1971. Also: Delhi: Dalama, Iron Dog year. Also: Nang-bstan-shes-rig-’dzin-skyong slob-gnyer- khang, n.d.

English translation: Lati Rinbochay and Jeffrey Hopkins.
Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism.
London: Rider, 1980; Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1980.

Ye-shay-gyel-tsen, Tsay-chok-ling-yong-dzin (
ye shes rgyal mtshan, tshe mchog gling yongs ’dzin,

1713-1793)

Illumination of the Meaning of Action Tantra

bya rgyud don gsal

Collected Works of Tshe-mchog-gling Ye-shes-rgyal-mtshan, vol. 9. New Delhi: Tibet House, 1976.

3. Other Works

Eliade, Mircea.
Patañjali and Yoga.
Trans. by C.L. Markmann. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969.

Evans-Wentz, W.Y., compiled and edited.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Guenther, Herbert V. “Buddhism in Tibet,” in M. Eliade, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Religion,
vol. 2
.
New York: Macmillan, 1986.

———.
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation by sGam-po-pa.
London: Rider, 1963; rpt. Berkeley: Shambhala, 1971.

———.
Tibetan Buddhism Without Mystification
. Leiden: Brill, 1966.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships,

trans. and ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins. New York: Atria Books/Simon and Schuster, 2005.

———.
How to See Yourself As You Really Are.
Translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. New York: Atria Books/Simon and Schuster, 2007.

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———.
The Dalai Lama at Harvard
. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1989. Jeffrey Hopkins, trans. and ed.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, and Jeffrey Hopkins.
The K
ā
lachakra Tantra: Rite of Initiation for the Stage of Generation
. London: Wisdom Publications, 1985; 2nd rev. ed., 1989.

Hopkins, Jeffrey.
Absorption In No External World: 170 Issues in Mind-Only Buddhism
,
Dynamic Responses to Dzong-ka-ba’s
The Essence of Eloquence, Volume 3. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2005.

———.
Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism
,
Dynamic Responses to Dzong-ka-ba’s
The Essence of Eloquence, Volume 1. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999; Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000.

———.
Maps of the Profound: Jam-yang-shay-ba’s Great Exposition of Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Views on the Nature of Reality.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2003.

———.
Meditation on Emptiness.
London: Wisdom Publications, 1983; rev. ed., Boston, Ma.: Wis-dom Publications, 1996.

———.
Reflections on Reality: The Three Natures and Non-Natures in the Mind-Only School, Dynamic Responses to Dzong-ka-ba’s
The Essence of Eloquence, Volume 2
.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

———.
The Tantric Distinction
. London: Wisdom Publications, 1984.

———. “The Ultimate Deity In Action Tantra and Jung’s Warning Against Identifying With the Deity,”
Buddhist-Christian Studies
5 (1985): 159-172.

Joshi, L. M. “Facets of Jaina Religiousness in Comparative Light,” L. D. Series 85 [Ahmedabad:

L. D. Institute of Indology, May 1981], 53-58.

Jung, Carl G.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971; second printing, 1974.

Kuhn, Thomas.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Second edition; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Küng, Hans.
Theology for the Third Millennium: An Ecumenical View.
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Lati Rinbochay, Denma Lochö Rinbochay, Leah Zahler, and Jeffrey Hopkins.
Meditative States in

Tibetan Buddhism
. London: Wisdom Publications, 1983; rev. ed., Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1997.

Lodrö, Gedün.
Calm Abiding and Special Insight.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.

Mi-pam-gya-tso.
Fundamental Mind: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness
with practical commentary by Khetsun Sangbo Rinbochay. Trans. and ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2006.

Rabten, Geshe.
The Life and Teachings of Geshe Rabten
. Trans. and ed. by Alan Wallace. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982.

Sangpo, Khetsun.
Tantric Practice in Nyingma.
Trans. and ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins. London: Rider, 1982; reprint, Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1983.

Sopa, Geshe Lhundup and Jeffrey Hopkins.
Cutting Through Appearances: The Practice and Theory of Tibetan Buddhism.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1989.

Index

Abhay
ā
kara, 277, 344, 345, 366

Clusters of Quintessential Instructions
, 374

able to establish itself from its own side without being mentally imputed, 15

absence of inherent existence, 15, 16, 31,

32, 34, 35, 39, 40, 48, 49, 50, 63, 81, 99,

108, 159, 187, 253, 340

action, 29, 41, 93, 101, 107, 127, 130, 182,

184, 186, 201, 210, 212, 217, 228, 231,

234, 235, 247, 317, 321, 322, 331, 370,

371, 378

Action Tantra, 8, 9, 45, 46, 50, 52, 56, 66,

80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 95, 115, 117,

121, 126, 130, 133, 134, 137, 151, 158,

160, 162, 165, 167, 222, 225, 278, 292,

297, 298, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308,

309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316,

317, 321, 323, 325, 329, 330, 336, 343,

344, 345, 346, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352,

353, 355, 356, 378, 379, 380, 381, 383,

385, 386

controversy over deity yoga, 303 Action Tantra lineages, three, 57, 84, 85,

97, 100, 173, 179, 198

lotus, 97, 167, 168, 171, 172, 173, 176,

177, 189, 195, 196, 343

One-Gone-Thus, 97

vajra, 97

activities, 7, 40, 59, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 93,

99, 100, 103, 104, 107, 108, 118, 139,

158, 163, 165, 172, 174, 181, 191, 194,

195, 199, 202, 209, 213, 220, 222, 253,

273, 277, 282, 291, 292, 301, 305, 321,

324, 340, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353,

354, 355, 356, 357, 376, 383, 384, 385

external, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 357,

383

affirming negative, 50

afflictive emotion, 10, 13, 34, 37, 59, 88,

91, 99, 101, 106, 107, 117, 119, 124, 125,

126, 128, 133, 148, 162, 163, 185, 186,

206, 210, 213, 215, 216, 217, 219, 220,

228, 250, 252, 259, 267, 282, 287, 288,

289, 329, 330, 331, 332, 334, 337, 355,

372

innate, 162

predominant, 330

uncommon, 125

aggregates, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28,

29, 30, 32, 40, 48, 187, 236, 246, 247,

249, 255

Ala
ṃ
kakalasha, 322, 331

Commentary on the “Vajra Garland Tantra”
, 321, 381

alchemist, 75

alternation, 153, 154

altruism, 7, 40, 60, 63, 81, 87, 88, 93, 105,

106, 107, 108, 122, 126, 165, 167, 171,

181, 185, 202, 267, 269, 270, 271, 272,

273, 333, 334, 338, 339

altruistic intention to become enlightened, 40, 106, 167, 171, 181,

185, 267, 269, 271, 272, 273, 333

ambrosia, 53, 54, 55, 109, 136, 188, 191,

221, 252

analysis, 9, 10, 18, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32,

34, 35, 37, 43, 66, 108, 109, 122, 125,

153, 154, 155, 159, 208, 278, 292, 293,

295, 299, 305, 315, 318, 323, 325, 345,

354, 371, 372

power of, 154, 155, 201

Ā
nandagarbha, 226, 278, 380

Illumination of Principles
, 376 antidote, 16, 33, 34, 118, 119, 120, 121,

122, 123, 125, 126, 129, 161, 162, 250,

343, 345, 346, 347, 361

Aparantaka-Vaibh
āṣ
hikas, 325

appearance factor, 59, 65, 81, 157, 158,

159, 201

arrow, 14, 346

Ā
ryadeva

Lamp Compendium for Practice
, 235, 311

Asa
ṅ
ga, 118, 314, 361

Actuality of the Levels
, 361 ascertaining entailment, 20, 22, 40, 48

ascertainment factor, 59, 65, 81, 157, 158,

159, 201

aspiration

as antidote to laziness, 125 assimilation, 55, 65, 66, 70, 71, 77, 80, 330 Atisha

Compilation of All Pledges
, 205, 240, 241,

242, 372

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Means of Achievement of Vimalo
ṣ
h
ṇīṣ
ha
, 306

autonomous complex, 65, 75, 76, 77, 78,

79, 80, 88, 90, 153, 159

secondary, 79

autonomy, 76, 77, 79, 104

Autonomy School, 274

Avalokiteshvara, 100, 165, 170, 171, 175,

176, 179, 188, 189, 198, 199, 345

base, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29, 30, 59, 92, 93,

135, 140, 207, 242, 246, 312, 313

basis of designation, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22,

23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 59, 81, 147

Bh
ā
vaviveka, 119

Heart of the Middle
, 119

bhr
ūṃ
, 95, 175

blessing, 57, 89, 95, 109, 121, 170, 179, 206,

215, 221, 236

meaning, 58

bliss, 34, 78, 130, 131, 132, 150, 151, 155,

181, 200, 201, 212, 213, 215, 216, 227,

233, 234, 236, 247, 260, 275, 276, 279,

280, 283, 287, 289, 290, 303, 309, 325,

328, 336, 338, 340, 341, 343, 344, 345,

346, 347, 348, 356, 365, 369, 370, 372,

373, 377, 381, 383, 384

Bodhisattva, 54, 56, 88, 101, 102, 103, 127,

160, 162, 167, 171, 177, 180, 188, 191,

208, 210, 217, 221, 222, 224, 227, 240,

241, 265, 266, 267, 271, 279, 287, 288,

334, 372

Bodhisattva Vehicle, 265 body

complete enjoyment, 235, 260, 280

divine, 57, 58, 93, 94, 109, 110, 111,

112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 120, 121,

130, 134, 138, 139, 149, 150, 152,

156, 157, 158, 161, 189, 190, 191,

193, 194, 199, 200, 201, 217, 218,

271, 305

emanation, 259, 260, 280

enjoyment, 259

form, 65, 96, 266, 268, 270, 271, 277,

278, 290, 291, 315, 339, 365, 373,

374, 375, 376, 377, 379

maturation, 377

of attributes, 65, 235, 241, 246, 259,

260, 266, 268, 270, 271, 277, 278,

280, 286, 290

truth, 375, 377, 379

branches of repetition, four, 85, 107, 108,

140, 141, 142, 148, 155, 166, 174

breath, 93, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116,

123, 137, 139, 140, 141, 149, 156, 190,

192, 193, 194, 195, 199, 200, 316

Brief Explication of Initiations
, 275, 365

Buddha lineage, 32, 51

Buddha nature, 32, 40, 51