Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron: VOLUME 10 - Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path

Sprache / Language: Englisch / English
Hardcover, 464 pages.

Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron: VOLUME 10 - Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path

About the book

His Holiness the Dalai Lama skillfully illuminates the unique qualities of Vajrayana, as practiced in Tibet, and the method to eradicate the subtlest obscurations preventing the full awakening of a buddha. Speaking to newcomers and advanced students alike, he explains the similarities and differences of the Sutra and Tantra paths. Having gathered many of the doubts and difficult points concerning the tantric path, he clarifies the purpose of receiving proper empowerment by qualified gurus and the ethical restraints and commitments required to enter the path of secret mantra. The paths and stages of the four tantric classes are explained, as are the generation-stage and completion-stage practices of Highest Yoga Tantra. You are introduced to the practices of clear appearance and divine identity common to all tantric sadhanas, as well as the distinctive practices of illusory body and actual clear light that overcome the subtlest defilements on the mind and eliminate all obscurations quickly.

The understanding of emptiness in Sutra and Tantra is the same, but the consciousness perceiving emptiness differs. In Highest Yoga Tantra that consciousness is great bliss, which arises from knowing the methods to manipulate the channels, winds, and drops of the subtle body. In short, in Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path the Dalai Lama sets out the path that leads to blissful awakening and enables us to be of great benefit to all sentient beings.

Contents

• Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra
• Introduction to Tantra
• Entering Tantrayana
• All-Encompassing Yoga
• The Path of Kriya Tantra
• The Paths of Charya Tantra and Yoga Tantra
• Highest Yoga Tantra
• The Tantric Perspective of Body and Mind
• The Path of Highest Yoga Tantra
• Introduction to the Completion Stage
• Going Deeper into the Completion Stage
• The Path of Kalachakra Tantra
• The Four Tibetan Traditions
• Coming to the Same Point
• A Song of Four Mindfulnesses and the Culmination of the Path
• Epilogue: Advice for My Disciples