Tantra

Examine the various aspects of the five Buddha-family traits (factors of Buddha-nature) in anuttarayoga tantra and their representations in terms of the five aggregates.

An overview of the structure of a “sadhana,” a visualization method used in tantra for generating and actualizing ourselves as a Buddha-figure.

Guhyasamaja is called the “King of Tantras” since its commentaries by the Indian Madhyamaka masters Nagarjuna, Aryadeva and Chandrakirti provide the full mechanism for unpacking the terse and purposely enigmatic language of the anuttarayoga root tantra texts. As a father...

Vajrabhairava (Yamantaka), the forceful form of Manjushri, is a father anuttarayoga tantra practice emphasizing methods for overcoming obstacles. In the Gelug tradition, it is the container within which all protector deity practices, as well as the combined practice of...

Chakrasamvara (Heruka) is a mother tantra practice of anuttarayoga tantra. It provides the most detail about the methods for generating the four levels of blissful awareness of voidness within the central energy-channel, enabling access to the subtlest level of mind, clear...

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...

The subtlest level of mind, the clear light mind, naturally makes an appearance similar to that when non-conceptually cognizing voidness. Even when not cognizing voidness, it does that explicitly at the moment of death and, according to the Jetsunpa textbooks, subliminally...

Learn how masters from the various Tibetan Buddhist traditions assert relative and deepest bodhichittas and how to gain simultaneous cognition of the two truths in anuttarayoga tantra.

The six yogas or practices of Naropa are a set of extremely advanced anuttarayoga complete stage practices that have led various great masters to attain enlightenment in their very lifetime.

The assertions of the four Tibetan Buddhist traditions concerning self-voidness and other-voidness and the methods for meditating on them in the context of the clear light subtlest level of mind.