Friday, June 21, 2013

Nyingma – The Nine Yanas 宁玛派 -圆满九次第 [7]

The Three Inner Tantras

MAHAYOGA

Vajrasattva (rdo rje sems dpa) transmitted the Mahayoga Tantras to King Ja of Zahor in India. He also received them from Vimalakirti who had obtained them from Vajrapani in Srilanka. 

The lineage of transmission was unbroken until the present day and it was Buddhaguhya who passed them to Vimalamitra and Padmasambhava and hence established their practice in Tibet.

Sometimes known as the Father Tantra (Pha rgyud), Mahayoga is the generative phase of visualising the deity as being luminosity inseparable from great emptiness.


View
This is to realise the inseparability of phenomena and great emptiness (sNang stong dbyer med).


Meditation

The skilful means to attain the inseparability of emptiness and form is to envision everything as the pure mandala of the deities. This is relative truth.


Action
Pure and impure are not differentiated and the five meats and five nectars are accepted without judgement.


Fruit

The state of the mandalas of the five, one hundred, one thousand or countless families is attained in this lifetime or the bardo after death.


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