Tantra

What you need to know for taking a Kalachakra initiation.

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

An explanation of the types of initiations in Tibetan Buddhism, what they involve, and their purpose.

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.

Mantra practice has many levels, from protecting our minds from mental wandering, to molding the energy-winds of the breath to facilitate bringing those energy-winds into the central channel, to building up causes for attaining the Enlightening Speech 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.

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 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.

The Tibetan word “damtsig,” “samaya” in Sanskrit, means “close bond.” It refers to practices that create a close bond between us and a Buddha-figure or our spiritual teacher.

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