Author: Glenn H Mullen
Compilor: Glenn H Mullen
Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 151
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186470131
Description
The Collected Works of most Tibetan Lamas are adorned by a type of literature called Lha Drub or Deity Accomplishment; Yidam Drub-Khor or Concerning the Meditational Deity Practices; and also Drub-thab-Kun-du or Collection of Sadhanas. These deal with the various meditations related to the four (or six) tantra categories. It is from such sources in the Collected Works of the Dalai Lamas that the materials for this work have been drawn.
This work entitled Meditations on the Lower Tantras from the collected Works of the Dali Lamas makes no attempt to deal with the philosophical aspects of the Lower Tantras. Rather, its aim is simply to present a range of meditation manuals from the first stage of these systems. It should be noted here that most practitioners of the Higher Tantras also practice the Lower Tantras either from time to time or as a lifetime daily meditational endeavor. The First Dalai Lama, for example, a renowned practitioner of the Kalachakra Tantra, was even more famous for his applications to the Tara and Amitayus systems. Almost every Tibetan yogi today practices a daily sadhana of one or more of the Lower Tantra deities dealt with within the covers of this work.
Contents
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
EDITOR’S PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE
The Preliminaries of Initiation
CHAPTER TWO
THE AMITAYUS /AMITBHA TRADITIONS
An Amitayus Longevity Yoga
A Practice of Consciousness Transference
CHAPTER THREE
AVALOKITESHVARA, THE BODHISATTVA OF COMPASSION
A Meditation upon Four-armed Avalokiteshvara
The Steps of visualization for the Three Essential Moments
The Mantric Recitation of Arya Avalokiteshvara
The Fasting Practice of 11-Faced Avalokiteshvara
Brief Notes on the Fasting Practice
CHAPTER FOUR
MANJUSHRI, THE BODHISATTVA OF WISDOM
A Meditation upon Orange Manjushri
A White Manjushri Method
CHAPTER FIVE
ARYA TARA, SOURCE OF ENLIGHTENED ENERGY
The Longevity Method of White Tara
A Sadhana Focusing Upon Green Tara
CHAPTER SIX
MISCELLANEOUS DEITIES
A Method of Accomplishing white Achala
A Sadhana focusing on the bodhisattva Maitreya
The Immutable Sarasvati
A Sitatapatra Sadhana
A Vajra Vidarana Sadhana
A Vajrasattva Guru-Yoga Method
SOURCE REFERENCES
A NOTE ON THE SANSKRIT