Tantra

Practices that bond us closely to mother tantra helps us to remain on course for achieving blissful awareness of voidness with clear light mental activity.

Learn why is it possible that we can become Buddhas and what is its relation to the subtlest level of the clear light mind?

What you need to know for taking a Kalachakra initiation.

Introduction to tantra, a system of practice that allows advanced practitioners to efficiently attain the state of Buddhahood for the benefit of all.

Dr. Berzin speaks about various topics with his students regarding the highest class of tantra, anuttarayoga, such as visualization practice and its obstacles, dream yoga and working with subtle energy-channels and energy-winds.

The energy-winds of our minds give rise to appearances resembling holograms. Depending on the mental factors accompanying this appearance-making, the holograms may be of samsaric appearances or the nirvana-type appearances of a Buddha-figure.

In order to develop an effective tantra practice, we need to understand what tantra is, how it works and how it’s more efficient than the sutra methods alone. Our practice is effective if it purifies away our emotional and cognitive obscurations and strengthens our...

The Dalai Lama explains the compatible and incompatible assertions made by the four Tibetan traditions concerning primordial clear light mind.

In his commentary on the “Guhyasamaja Tantra,” Chandrakirti presents the six alternative meanings and four modes or contexts for explaining the purposely obscure language, known as “vajra expressions,” of the anuttarayoga root tantra texts. The use of vajra expressions in...

Learn about the various levels of using the imagination to give rise to the appearances of Buddha-figures, representing the Enlightening Form Bodies of a Buddha.