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Vajrayana

Ground, Path, and Fruition

The three Buddhas have bestowed three different teachings:

The Nirmanakāya Buddha has bestowed the Sutrayana teachings,

The Sambhogakāya Buddha has bestowed the Vajrayana teachings, and

The Dharmakāya Buddha has bestowed the Great Perfection teachings.

Vajrayana Lineage:

Samantabhadra

The Five Buddha Families

Vajrapani, Manjushri, and Avalokiteshvara

Vajrapani teaches five disciples at Mount Malaya

King Jah

Vajrayana • Mantrayana • Tantrayana

The view:

The nature of mind is seen as the cause of Enlightenment from the Sutrayana view.

The nature of mind is seen as Buddha from the Vajrayana view.

The Path of Mind.

The Path of Wisdom comprises of two steps:

The path of wisdom appearance, and

The path of wisdom essence.

Within Vajrayana, the ground is divided in two:

The ground of the view is seeing that the nature of mind comprises of three kayas.

The ground of the path is profound trust in:karma,renunciation,bodhicitta, andpure perception.

The three states of existence are primordially Buddha; and phenomena, without exclusion, are not other than the state of Buddha.

Phenomena other than the state of Buddha will not be found even by the Buddha himself.

Expressing this pleases all the tathāgathas.

�ིད་ག�མ་ཡེ་ནས་སངས་�ས་ཤིང་། །

ཐམས་ཅད་མ་�ས་ཆསོ་སོ་ཅོག །

སངས་�ས་ཉིད་ལས་གཞན་མ་ཡིན། །

སངས་�ས་ཉིད་ལས་གཞན་པའི་ཆསོ། །

སངས་�ས་ཉིད་�སི་མ་ིབ�སེ་སོ། །

What are the necessary qualities for practicing Vajrayana correctly?

Understanding the overview presented so far.

Knowing your own faults and wishing to transform them.

Knowing how to practice your path and hitting the essence.

Understanding the journey and how to progress.

The stages of the path that bring about realization are innumerable. ༔

Purify your being, plant the seeds, and nurture them. ༔

Remove the hindrances and likewise bring forth enhancement. ༔

Thus, enter the correct path through these five aspects. ༔

�ོགས་�ེད་ལམ་�་ིརིམ་པ་བསམ་ཡས་�ང༔

�ད་�ོང་ས་བོན་གདབ་དང་བ�ེད་བ�ིང་པ༔

གེགས་སེལ་དང་ན་ིད་ེབཞིན་བོགས་འདནོ་ཏེ༔

�མ་པ་�་ཡིས་ཡང་དག་ལམ་ལ་འ�ག༔

Eh ma ho! From within the essence of the sugatas, confusion occurs.

Through karmic causes of each individual’s concepts;

Countless forms and abundance, places, suffering, and so forth,

The self, and the individualized fixation with the self all emanate.

ཨེ་མ་ཧོ་བདེ་གཤགེས་�ིང་པོ་ལས། །

རང་གི་�མ་�གོ་ལས་�སི་�ལ། །

�་ཚ�གས་ལས་དང་ལགོས་�ོད་དང་། །

གནས་དང་�ག་བ�ལ་ལ་སོགས་པ། །

བདག་དང་བདག་གརི་སོ་སོར་འཛ�ན། །

Even all vehicles are revealed as follows.

In order to tame, there are vehicles of gods and humans, the vehicle of the shravakas, the vehicle pratyekabuddhas, the vehicle of the bodhisattvas, and the vehicle of mantra.

Due to conceptual ignorance, there are eighty-four thousand passions; and the antidotes for them are eighty-four thousand categories of teachings that were taught and will be taught.

ཐམས་ཅད་�ང་འད་ི�་�ེ། འ�ལ་བའ་ིདབང་གསི་

�་དང་མའི་ིཐགེ་པ་དང་། ཉན་ཐོས་�་ིཐགེ་པ་དང་།

རང་�ང་�བ་�ི་ཐགེ་པ་དང་། �ང་�བ་སེམས་

དཔའི་ཐེག་པ་དང་། �་ན་མེད་པའི་ཐགེ་པས།

མ་རིག་པའི་�མ་པར་�གོ་པ་ཉནོ་མངོས་པ་�ོང་

�ག་བ�ད་�་�་བཞའི་ིགཉརེ་པོར། ཆོས་�ོང་�ག་

བ�ད་�་�་བཞི་ག�ངས་སོ། །ག�ང་ང་ོ། ག�ང་

བར་འ�ར་རོ། །

Do not disturb the guru’s mind and fulfill their every command.

Do not quarrel with vajra siblings and be honest and sincere towards them;

Practice meditation and recitation of the yidam deity every day.

Never fail to make a feast offering on the tenth day of the lunar month; and

Maintain the practice of trekchö (cutting through), and

Do not take the life of any sentient being.

རང་རེ་�གས་པ་ཚ�ས། �་མའི་�གས་མ་ད�ག་ཅིང་

ཅི་ག�ང་བཀའ་�བ་པ་དང་གཅིག

མཆེད་�མ་�ལ་�ོད་འཛ�ང་ངོ་�ོག་མི་�ེད་པ་དང་གཉསི།

ཉི་མ་རེ་བཞིན་ཡི་དམ་�་ཡི་བ�ོམ་བ�ས།

ཚ�་བ�འི་ཚ�གས་མཆོད་མ་ཆགས་པ་དང་ག�མ།

�ེགས་ཆོད་�ི་ཉམས་ལེན་�ོང་ཞིང་།

སེམས་ཅན་�་ི�ོག་མི་གཅོད་པ་དང་།

Since his being abides as the natureof the four vajras ༔

Of body, speech, mind, and wisdom, ༔

Plant the seeds of the four empowerments ༔

Through the skillful means of the Unexcelled Secret Mantra. ༔

རང་�ད་�་ག�ང་�གས་དང་ཡེ་ཤསེ་ཏེ༔

�ོ་�ེ་བཞི་ཡི་ང་ོབོར་གནས་པ་ཉདི༔

གསང་�གས་�་ན་མདེ་པའ་ིཐབས་མཁས་�ིས༔

དབང་བ�ར་�མ་བཞིའ་ིས་བོན་གདབ་པར་�༔

བ�ན་པ་འ�ག་ན་རང་གི་སེམས་ལ་�གས། །

སེམས་�ི་གཏིང་ནས་སངས་�ས་�ེད་ཡོང་ངོ་། །ཞིང་ཁམས་�ལ་ན་ཐ་མལ་འ�ལ་ཞེན་�ོང་། །

�མ་དག་ཞིང་ཁམས་�ིད་པོ་འ�མ་ན་ཡོད། །

བ�ན་པའི་�ིང་པོ་�བ་ལ་བ�ོན་འ�ས་བ�ེད། །�བ་པ་མ་�ས་�བ་པ་�་ཡིས་ཐོབ། །

རང་�ོན་ངན་པ་རང་གིས་མཐོང་བར་དཀའ། །

རང་�ོན་ཐེར་འདོན་གདམས་པའི་གནད་གཅགི་ཡནི། །

ནམ་ཞིག་�ོན་�ི་ཆ་�མས་སངས་རིམ་བཞིན། །

ཡོན་ཏན་ཆ་ཤས་འཕེལ་ཞིང་�ས་པར་འ�ར། །

If you’re going to plant the teachings, plant them in your mind:In the depths of mind is where you’ll find buddha.

If you’re going to search out pure lands, purify your deluded clinging to the ordinary:Delightful pure lands lie right beside you.

Rouse diligence when it comes to practicing the essential teachings—Whoever reached accomplishment without practice?

Your own worst faults are difficult for you to see;To expose your faults is the single most vital piece of advice.

As your negative aspects fall away, one by one,Your positive side will grow and flourish, ever more.

With renunciation towards samsara, and the inner swell of triple faith,with trust in the results of actions, and striving towards supreme liberation,accumulation and purification perfected, compassion and devotion mastered—grant your blessings that we may traverse the Path of Accumulation!

Ripened by the four empowerments, keeping pure samaya,attaining stability in the generation stage, adept in the channels, winds, and drops,the four activities and eight accomplishments mastered through experience—grant your blessings that we may traverse the fourfold Path of Joining!

�ིད་ལས་ངེས་འ�ང་དད་ག�མ་ཁངོ་ནས་བ�ལོ། །

ལས་འ�ས་ཡིད་ཆེས་ཐར་མཆོག་དོན་�་གཉརེ། །

བསགས་�ང་མཐར་�ིན་�ིང་�ེ་མོས་�ས་འ�ོངས། །

ཚ�གས་ལམ་�ར་�་འ�ོད་པར་�ིན་�ིས་�བོས། །

དབང་བཞིས་�ད་�ིན་དམ་ཚ�ག་�མ་པར་དག །

བ�ེད་རིམ་བ�ན་ཐོབ་�་�ང་ཐིག་ལེ་འ�ོངས། །

ལས་བཞི་�བ་པ་བ�ད་སོགས་ཉམས་འོག་�ད། །

�ོར་ལམ་�མ་བཞི་བ�ོད་པར་�ིན་�ིས་�ོབས། །

Perfecting the power of realization of the unbiased experience of primordial purity,visions of luminosity’s spontaneous presence reaching their fullest extent,and replete with the universal wisdom of bliss and emptiness—grant your blessings that we may traverse the wondrous Paths of Seeing and Meditation!

The four vidyādhara levels—the paths’ fruition perfected,the two obscurations purified, the twofold knowledge unfolded,and the unity of no-more learning, the three kāyas manifest.

ཀ་དག་རང་�ང་རིས་མེད་དགངོས་�ལ་�གོས། །

�ན་�བ་འོད་གསལ་�ང་བ་ཚད་ལ་ཕེབས། །

བདེ་�ོང་ཡེ་ཤེས་�མ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་པ། །

མཐོང་�ོམ་ལམ་བཟང་བ�ོད་པར་�ིན་�ིས་�ོབས། །

ལམ་�ར་འ�ས་�་རིག་འཛ�ན་�མ་པ་བཞ།ི །

མཐར་�ིན་�ིབ་གཉིས་�ན་སངས་མ�ེན་གཉིས་�ས། །

མི་�ོབ་�ང་འ�ག་�་ག�མ་མངོན་�་�ར། །

Nine Yanas: The Path of Study

The first Six Yanas of the program include teachings, contemplation, and reflection exercises that unfold gradually.

First Three YanasStudy: Shravaka-, Pratyekabuddha- and Bodhisattva-YanasPractice: Buddha Shakyamuni Practice (Treasury of Blessings)

Three Outer TantrasEmpowerment: Green TaraStudy: Kriyayoga, Upayoga and Yoga TantrasPractice Text: Zabtik DrolchokRecitation: Atisha’s five stanzas practice

Upon completion of the first Six Yanas, the student joins the Traditional Vajrayana Path and starts the Ngöndro practice.

Traditional Vajrayana Path

Students who have prior familiarity with Buddhist principles, prior meditation experience, or a strong connection to the Vajrayana may decide to enter this path. One begins by taking the refuge and bodhisattva vows. This path was most commonly followed by the practitioners and great masters of the past in Tibet.

Initial PracticeReflection on the four mind changingsLearning and focusing on the refuge preceptsStudents may choose to take additional preceptsBodhisattva vows

Ngöndro (The Preliminary Practices)Empowerment: Tukdrup Barché Kunsel

Three Inner TantrasStudents engage in the practice of the Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. The students begin Mahayoga practice after having gained stability inkarma, bodhicitta, devotion, recognition, and samaya.

MahayogaEmpowerment: Tukdrup Barché KunselSpiritual Foundation: Lamrim Yeshé Nyingpo and Tukdrup Barché

Kunsel (Chapter 4: Guru Nangsi Zilnön, Yeshé Zangthal)Practice: the Three Roots (Lama, Yidam, Khandro)

Guru Rinpoché: Concise Daily Practice and Trinlé NyingpoDorjé Sempa (peaceful) and Dorjé Phurba (wrathful)Kurukulle and Jetsün Drolma

Focus:Learning and reflecting on the Mahayoga Samayas.Establishing the view of Mahayoga: perfect pureequality

Dzokrim: Completion StageStudents train in the completion stage having gained stability in karma, bodhicitta, devotion, mind recognition, and the Mahayoga view and samayas.

AnuyogaTaught in detail for those students who engage in the 3-Year Retreat.Nadi, Prana and BinduSpiritual Foundation: Lamrim Yeshé Nyingpo and Tukdrup Barché

Kunsel (Chapt. 9: Guru Dzamling Gyenchok: Dechen Zangthal)Practice: Six Vajra Yogas (Dorjé Chö Druk). These are Heat Yoga,

Illusory Body, Luminosity, Dream Yoga, Phowa, and Bardo.Focus: Primarily on Heat Yoga, Bardo, and Phowa

AtiyogaSpiritual Foundation: Lamrim Yeshé Nyingpo and Tukdrup

Barché Kunsel (Chapter 16: Guru Dechen Gyalpo: Ösal Zangthal)

Practice: Trekchö: Cutting Through

Sacred Sites of Vajrayana:

Mount Malaya

Oddiyana (Swat Valley)

Bodh Gaya

Asura Cave

Samye

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