Esoteric Teachings Of The Tibetan Tantra

C. A. Muses

• Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9783849621933
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

This is the annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids Contents: Part I: Seven Initiation Rituals Of The Tibetan Tantra Chapter One - The Initiation Ritual Of The Fierce GuruChapter Two - The Initiation Ritual Of The Fierce Guru With PhurbaChapter Three - The Initiation Ritual Of The All-Merciful OneChapter Four - The Initiation Ritual Of Hayagriva Buddha. The Green Rta-Mgrin's Initiation Ceremony From The Treasury Of PercipienceChapter Five - The Initiation Ritual Of The Red Gshin-RjeChapter Six - The Superb Initiation Ritual Of Ahm Gtsug VajrapaniChapter Seven - A Compendium Of The Initiation Rituals Of Performance Or All-Accomplishing Wisdom Presided Over By Amoghasiddhi Part Ii - The Six Yogas Of Naropa [In Tsong-Kha-Pa's Commentary] PrologueChapter One - IntroductionChapter Two - Special PreparationsChapter Three - The Arising And Perfecting YogaChapter Four - The Steps Of Practice In The PathChapter Five - The Art Of Gtum-Mo Or Heat YogaChapter Six - The Practice Of The Illusory Body Or Dream Yoga, Depending On Foregoing Heat YogaChapter Seven - On The Bardo RealmChapter Eight - The Yoga Of The LightChapter Nine - The Transformation YogaChapter Ten - How To Improve The Practice In The PathChapter Eleven - Tsong Khopa's Summary Of SourcesEpilogue Appendix - The Vow Of Mahamudra Translator's IntroductionEditor's NoteThe Vow Of Mahamudra

Esoteric Teachings Of The Tibetan Tantra

C. A. Muses

Contents:

Buddhism

Esoteric Teachings Of The Tibetan Tantra

Part I: Seven Initiation Rituals Of The Tibetan Tantra

Chapter One - The Initiation Ritual Of The Fierce Guru

Chapter Two - The Initiation Ritual Of The Fierce Guru With Phurba

Chapter Three - The Initiation Ritual Of The All-Merciful One

Chapter Four - The Initiation Ritual Of Hayagriva Buddha. The Green Rta-Mgrin's Initiation Ceremony From The Treasury Of Percipience

Chapter Five - The Initiation Ritual Of The Red Gshin-Rje

Chapter Six - The Superb Initiation Ritual Of Ahm Gtsug Vajrapani

Chapter Seven - A Compendium Of The Initiation Rituals Of Performance Or All-Accomplishing Wisdom Presided Over By Amoghasiddhi

Part Ii - The Six Yogas Of Naropa [In Tsong-Kha-Pa's Commentary]

Prologue

Chapter One - Introduction

Chapter Two - Special Preparations

Chapter Three - The Arising And Perfecting Yoga

Chapter Four - The Steps Of Practice In The Path

Chapter Five - The Art Of Gtum-Mo Or Heat Yoga

Chapter Six - The Practice Of The Illusory Body Or Dream Yoga, Depending On Foregoing Heat Yoga

Chapter Seven - On The Bardo Realm

Chapter Eight - The Yoga Of The Light

Chapter Nine - The Transformation Yoga

Chapter Ten - How To Improve The Practice In The Path

Chapter Eleven - Tsong Khopa's Summary Of Sources

Epilogue

Appendix - The Vow Of Mahamudra

Translator's Introduction

Editor's Note

The Vow Of Mahamudra

Esoteric Teachings Of The Tibetan Tantra, C. A. Muses

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BUDDHISM

The religion held by the followers of the Buddha, and covering a large area in India and east and central Asia.

Essential Doctrines.—We are fortunate in having preserved for us the official report of the Buddha's discourse, in which he expounded what he considered the main features of his system to the five men he first tried to win over to his new-found faith. There is no reason to doubt its substantial accuracy, not as to words, but as to purport. In any case it is what the compilers of the oldest extant documents believed their teacher to have regarded as the most important points in his teaching. Such a summary must be better than any that could now be made. It is incorporated into two divisions of their sacred books, first among the suttas containing the doctrine, and again in the rules of the society or order he founded (Samyutta, v. 421 = Vinaya, i. 10). The gist of it, omitting a few repetitions, is as follows:—

"There are two aims which he who has given up the world ought not to follow after—devotion, on the one hand, to those things whose attractions depend upon the passions, a low and pagan ideal, fit only for the worldly-minded, ignoble, unprofitable, and the practice on the other hand of asceticism, which is painful, ignoble, unprofitable. There is a Middle Path discovered by the Tathāgata—a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace, to insight, to the higher wisdom, to Nirvāna. Verily! it is this Noble Eightfold Path; that is to say, Right Views, Right Aspirations, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Mode of Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Rapture.

"Now this is the Noble Truth as to suffering. Birth is attended with pain, decay is painful, disease is painful, death is painful. Union with the unpleasant is painful, painful is separation from the pleasant; and any craving unsatisfied, that too is painful. In brief, the five aggregates of clinging (that is, the conditions of individuality) are painful.

"Now this is the Noble Truth as to the origin of suffering. Verily! it is the craving thirst that causes the renewal of becomings, that is accompanied by sensual delights, and seeks satisfaction now here, now there—that is to say, the craving for the gratification of the senses, or the craving for a future life, or the craving for prosperity.

"Now this is the Noble Truth as to the passing away of pain. Verily! it is the passing away so that no passion remains, the giving up, the getting rid of, the being emancipated from, the harbouring no longer of this craving thirst.

"Now this is the Noble Truth as to the way that leads to the passing away of pain. Verily! it is this Noble Eightfold Path, that is to say, Right Views, Right Aspirations, Right speech, conduct and mode of livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Rapture."

A few words follow as to the threefold way in which the speaker claimed to have grasped each of these Four Truths. That is all. There is not a word about God or the soul, not a word about the Buddha or Buddhism. It seems simple, almost jejune; so thin and weak that one wonders how it can have formed...

Table of contents

• BUDDHISM
• PART II - THE SIX YOGAS OF NAROPA [IN TSONG-KHA-PA'S COMMENTARY]
• APPENDIX - THE VOW OF MAHAMUDRA