Authors: Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush (Editor), Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
ISBN-13: 9780861713899, ISBN-10: 0861713893
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Like Becoming the Compassion Buddha, this is another of Lama Yeshe's examinations of key Tantric deity practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Common to all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, the practice of Vajrasattva is used to purify obstacles to spiritual development, negative karma, and illness. Lama Yeshe, the inspirational teacher who strongly influenced the development of Buddhism in the West, found that the practice of Vajrasattva brought dramatic results for his Western students. Becoming Vajrasattva is a complete guide to this purification practice, providing instruction on the method, commentary on the traditional texts, and insight into tantra. Also included is an entire section of complete retreat instructionsrequired reading for anyone undertaking a meditation retreat in the Tibetan tradition.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Editor's introduction | 1 | |
Prologue | 5 | |
Pt. 1 | The main commentary | 7 |
1 | Why and how we purify | 9 |
2 | Taking refuge | 19 |
3 | Inner refuge and meditation on emptiness | 31 |
4 | The actual yoga method | 43 |
5 | The purification | 57 |
6 | The concluding practices | 63 |
Pt. 2 | Retreat instructions | 67 |
7 | Getting ready for retreat | 69 |
8 | The retreat session | 81 |
9 | More retreat advice | 87 |
Pt. 3 | Discourses | 95 |
10 | No negativity cannot be completely purified | 97 |
11 | An initiation into Heruka Vajrasattva | 103 |
12 | A brief commentary on the Vajrasattva Sadhana | 113 |
13 | Vajrasattva practice and highest yoga tantra | 125 |
14 | The qualities of Vajrasattva are already within us | 133 |
15 | Action is everything | 139 |
Pt. 4 | Heruka Vajrasattva Tsok | 147 |
16 | What is Tsok? | 149 |
17 | Heruka Vajrasattva Tsok : the first commentary | 151 |
18 | Heruka Vajrasattva Tsok : the second commentary | 163 |
App. 1 | The yoga method of the glorious supreme Heruka Vajrasattva | 197 |
App. 2 | The Heruka Vajrasattva Tsok offering | 211 |
App. 3 | Tibetan texts | 233 |
App. 4 | Translation and explanation of the hundred-syllable mantra | 259 |
App. 5 | Blessing the Shi-dak Torma | 263 |
Notes | 269 | |
Glossary | 277 | |
Chronology | 289 | |
Suggested further reading | 291 |