The Six Yogas of Naropa Tsongkhapa's Commentary Entitled A Book of Three Inspirations: A Treatise on the Stages of Training in the Profound Path of Naro's Six Dharmas

by Tsong-Kha-Pa; Mullin, Glenn C.

ISBN13: 9781559392341

ISBN10: 1559392347

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2005-10-04

Publisher(s): Snow Lion

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Summary

Anyone who has read more than a few books on Tibetan Buddhism will have encountered references tot he Six Yogas of Naropa. The six practices-inner heat, illsory bosy, clear light, consciousness transference, forceful projection and bardo yoga-gradually came to prevade thousands of monastaries, nunneries, and hermitages throughout Central Asia over the past five and a half centuries.

Author Biography

Je Tsong-kha-pa (1357–1419), founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, was one of Tibet's greatest philosophers and a prolific writer. His most famous work, The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, is a classic of Tibetan Buddhism.

Preface	p. 11
Introduction	p. 19
Tsongkhapa and the Lineage of the Six Yogas	p. 19
The Buddhist Tantric Tradition in India	p. 24
Naropa	p. 26
The Legacy of the Six Yogas	p. 29
The Six Yogas, Three Bardo States, and Nine Blendings	p. 33
Lama Tsongkhapa's A Book of Three Inspirations	p. 44
Section One of Tsongkhapa's Text	p. 47
The Preliminary Trainings Associated with the General Mahayana	p. 47
The General Tantric Preliminaries	p. 49
The Tantric Preliminaries Unique to the Six Yogas System	p. 51
The Generation Stage Yogas	p. 52
Introduction to the Nature of the Mind	p. 55
Introduction to the Nature of the Body	p. 58
The Physical Exercises and Meditations upon the Empty Shell Body	p. 60
Section Two of Tsongkhapa's Text	p. 62
The Inner Heat Yoga	p. 63
Karmamudra	p. 69
The Illusory Body Yoga	p. 73
The Bardo Yoga	p. 78
The Clear Light Yoga	p. 81
The Consciousness Transference Yoga	p. 85
The Forceful Projection Yoga	p. 87
Concluding Notes	p. 89
The Six Yogas of Naropa in English Translation	p. 90
The Seventh Dalai Lama's Prayer to the Six Yogas Lineage	p. 95
Some Historical Lineage Considerations	p. 99
A Parting Perspective on Tsongkhapa the Great	p. 103
A Book of Three Inspirations: A Treatise on the Stages of Training in the Profound Path of Naro's Six Dharmas
Prologue	p. 109
The preliminary meditations, which build the foundations of this path	p. 111
The preliminaries that are general meditations derived from the common Mahayana teachings	p. 111
Why it is necessary for training in this tradition to be preceded by training in the practices of the common Mahayana	p. 111
The actual stages of training the mind in that path	p. 113
The preliminaries that belong exclusively to the highest yoga tantra tradition	p. 116
The general Vajrayana preliminaries	p. 116
Why it is necessary to receive the complete empowerments	p. 116
Why it is necessary to observe the tantric precepts	p. 118
The preliminaries emphasized in this Naropa system	p. 119
Having established the preliminaries, how to train in the actual tantric meditations	p. 121
The meditations of the generation stage yogas	p. 121
The meditations of the completion stage yogas	p. 126
The nature of the basis	p. 126
The nature of the mind	p. 126
The nature of the body	p. 131
The explanation of the stages of traversing the path	p. 133
The meditations upon the physical exercises, together with the meditation upon the body as empty	p. 133
The meditations on the physical exercises	p. 133
The meditations on the body as an empty shell	p. 136
The stages of meditating upon the actual path	p. 137
The manner of structuring the path	p. 137
The stages of being guided on the path	p. 141
The manner of actualizing the results	p. 221
Epilogue	p. 223
Vajrasattva Meditation and Mantra Recitation	p. 227
Establishing Blessing Powers by Meditating upon Guru Yoga	p. 233
Glossary: Sanskrit and Tibetan Names and Terms	p. 239
Notes	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 269
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