Vajrayana: An Essential Guide To Practice

✍ Scribed by Traleg Kyabgon, Salvatore Celiento (editor)

• Publisher: Shogam Publications
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Vajrayana: An Essential Guide to Practice Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche explains the profound meaning of Vajrayana, inclusive of the Six Yogas of Naropa, demystifying the practices and providing the necessary elucidations. One of the six Yogas, Dream Yoga, is explored in depth, providing remarkable insight into the human condition, mind, and spirituality. The clarifications illuminate the tantric path, dispelling confusion and uncertainty about how to approach Vajrayana practices. Some key explanations for practicing the Vajrayana path are elucidated including the role of clear light, and the role of the tantric teacher. This work includes generous, rarely discussed aspects of this profound path by one of the world’s foremost masters of Tibetan Buddhism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Title Page
Half Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche
Biography of Author Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
Acknowledgements
Editor’s Introduction
Section One: Overview of Buddhist Tantra
Chapter One: Sutra and Tantra: Differences Between Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism
Chapter Two: The Sutric Heritage in Tantra and the Clear Light Mind of Bliss
Chapter Three: The Practice of Deity Yoga
Chapter Four: Empowerment and the Vajra Master
Chapter Five: The Preparatory Arrangements for the Empowerment
Chapter Six: The Four Empowerments
Chapter Seven: The Creative-Imagination Stage
Chapter Eight: Mystic Heat Yoga and the Completion Stage
Chapter Nine: The Completion Stage Practices
Section Two: The Six Yogas of Naropa
Chapter Ten: Overview of the Six Yogas of Naropa
Chapter Eleven: Mystic Heat Yoga (Tummo)
Chapter Twelve: Illusory Body Yoga
Chapter Thirteen: Dream Yoga
Chapter Fourteen: Clear Light Yoga, Yoga of Bardo, and Transference of Consciousness
Section Three: Dream Yoga
Chapter Fifteen: Illusion and Reality
Chapter Sixteen: Philosophy of Dream Yoga
Chapter Seventeen: The Practices of Dream Yoga
Chapter Eighteen: Supplemental Practices of Dream Yoga
Notes
Index