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By Glenn H. Mulliny Hopkins, Glenn H. Mulliny Hopkins

ISBN-10: 155939269X

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It is a detailed selection of actual teachings by way of the Dalai Lamas on Tantric Buddhism and tantric perform. The readability and tool in their tantric writings is unprecedented. Glenn H. Mullin is an across the world well known Tibetologist, writer, and professional on Buddhist meditation. Glenn lived in Dharamsala, India, the house of the Dalai Lama, for a few years, the place he studied Tibetan language, literature, yoga, and meditation below twenty-five of the best masters of Tibet. he's the writer of over fifteen books on Buddhist themes and has led many pilgrimages to Nepal and Tibet within the final 5 years. He now divides his time among writing, lecturing, giving workshops, and best pilgrimages to the ability areas of valuable Asia.

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These eighty natural conceptual minds that are carried by the coarse and subtle contaminated energies thus dissolve just as at the moment of death. The wisdoms of the three appearances arise, leading the mind to the experience of the semblant clear light. This is the process of the yoga of mind isolation, the samadhi of vajra mind. When these three isolations have been taken to fulfillment, the yogi is given the actual precept on how to generate the illusory body, and also the oral instructions of the nine points in blending and transference.

The Old Schools refer to those sects that emerged in Tibet between ad 650 and 1000. They all used the Tibetan technical terminology established by the Tibetan translators of King Songtsen Gampo (mid-seventh century), King Trisong Deutsen (mid-eighth century), and King Tri Ralpachen (mid-ninth century). The “Old Tantras” is said in reference to tantras translated during that period and using the linguistics and terminology in vogue at that time. However, several movements began in Central and Western Tibet in the early eleventh century, with many Tibetans going back to India and retranslating everything anew, or bringing great scholars from India to Tibet in order to revise the old translations.

Concerning the methods for entering into the mandala, there are three basic forms of doing this: performing self-generation and frontal generation separately but entering in one movement; performing self-generation and frontal generation nonseparately but entering separately; and, lastly, performing the self-generation and frontal generation separately and entering separately. 40 : the thirte enth dal ai l ama Following whichever system is appropriate to the specific tradition, one enters into the mandala and takes the initiations.

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