Tantra

Atisha’s “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” is the forerunner of the Tibetan lam-rim tradition. It places special emphasis on the bodhisattva vows and their necessity for successful tantra practice.

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?

Kalachakra practice includes a special way of meditating on voidness in which we meditate not just on the actual meaning of voidness, but we also try to simulate doing this with a blissful clear light mind.

These root tantric vows give the necessary supporting context to our practice. Without them, we cannot gain attainments or realizations from tantric practice in the yogaand anuttarayoga classes.

An outline of some varieties of the phenomenon of consciousness traveling with a subtle form outside the rough body, found in the written and oral records of the Buddhist traditions of India and Tibet.

A survey of the different types of mandalas used for many different purposes, both in sutra and tantra.

We can only gain confidence in the tantra path based on confidence in the sutra path, with conviction that liberation and enlightenment are possible and understanding of how the tantra methods work to bring about their attainment.

A downfall from the tantric vows requires transgressing one of the fourteen root vows with the four binding factors being complete. Several factors may cause us to transgress our vows.

Taking the Kalachakra empowerment also entails six uncommon practices that create close bonds with six Buddha-family traits.