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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