Tantra

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

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...

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.

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.

The mechanism for how receiving an initiation prepares us for successful tantra practice.

The distinctions among the four classes of tantra can be described in terms of varying levels of reliance on external and internal methods and with the analogy of an increasing level of blissful awareness used to focus on voidness.

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...

The Prasangika-Madhyamaka presentation of how to achieve a union of method and voidness both in sutra and tantra.

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