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| | "Tantric" Means |
 | | Furthermore, in Vajrayana Buddhism, there are innumerable methods of meditations on Gurus, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Istadevatas, [Tib. | | | The purpose of Vajrayana Buddhist practice is to attain the perfect enlightenment of Buddha whereas in [the] Hindu Tantric system, the basis is to realize the Ten Mahavidyas as the highest forms of deities. | | | In Vajrayana Buddhism, on the other hand, there is the system of meditation of the unity of Samatha and Vipashyana according to the Tantric or Sutra Mahamudra systems. |
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http://www.khandro.net/Buddhism_tantric.htm
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| | Vajrayana initiation means introducing the disciple into the mandala, the sacred or magic circle, of one of the tutelary deities of the Vajrayana pantheon-- deities who are special esoteric forms of the Buddha, meditation on whom can bring about enlightenment. | | | In Vajrayana psychology, therefore, we have aggregates, afflictions, and elements on the ordinary, impure level which are transformed on the purified level into the five celestial Buddhas, the five transcendental knowledges, and the five female deities who are consorts of the five celestial Buddhas. | | | Therefore, when we say that the Vajrayana initiation introduces a disciple into the mandala of one of the tantric tutelary deities, what we mean is that it introduces him or her to the purified universe of one of these deities. |
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http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dsantina/tree/part3.txt
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| | Vajrayana and Hindu Tantricism |
| | The various classes of forms used for meditation in Vajrayana are: 1) Guru 2) Buddhas and Bodhisatvas 3) Yidam 4) Dakinis and Dharmapala. | | | In the Sakya tradition of the Tiabetan Vajrayana, it is said Sal tong zung juk ryu yee chen key dang or in Sanskrit 'Prabhaswar sunyata yuganadha cha sahaja hetu' which means 'Clarity, Emptiness and their two in one are the spontaneously born Cause- Base. | | | Among the Newars, the priests of Hindu Newars are called Deobhju whereas Buddhist Vajrayana priests and called Gubhaju. |
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http://www.buddhim.20m.com/4-2.htm
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| | Wikinfo Vajrayana |
| | Vajrayana Buddhism developed in Northern India circa 7th century and was exported to China, Japan, and Tibet. | | | However the best known form of Vajrayana Buddhism is that of Tibet, which was subsequently adopted in Mongolia and Bhutan. | | | There is also evidence of Vajrayana in Java especially at Borobudur a huge Buddhist monument. |
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http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Vajrayana
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| | Vajrayana |
| | Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism, has been described as the latest phase in the development and evolution of Buddhist thought. | | | Vajrayana metaphysics is, like Indian Tantra, a hybrid affair: a coming together of Indian Tantrism, Mahayana Buddhism, and the original aboriginal shamanism - the Bon tradition - of Tibet itself. | | | Indeed, if anything good has come out of the terrible Chinese invasion and oppression of the Tibetan homeland in the 2nd half of the 20th century, it has been that this has driven Tibetan lamas and teachers to the West, and encouraged them to spread their tradition among sympathetic Westerners. |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/Vajrayana.htm
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| | Vajrayana |
| | Vajrayana, the "Thunderbolt" or "Diamond" Vehicle, is one of the three major divisions of Buddhism. | | | Vajrayana is also noted for focusing attention on many feminine buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities or wives of male deities. | | | Vajrayana arose from a group of texts called Tantras which described meditation and ritual techniques for advanced Mahayana practitioners. |
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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/omm/B1471.html
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| | Vajrayana Institute, Sydney |
| | Vajrayana Institute is a Tibetan Buddhist centre in the heart of Sydney, Australia. | | | Vajrayana Institute was established in 1986 in Cremorne, with the aim of providing busy city people with a peaceful place to study the profound path of Tibetan Buddhism and a chance to integrate spiritual values into their everyday lives. | | | Vajrayana Institute is a branch of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a network |
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| | Vajrayana buddhism Directory |
| | Vajrayana Buddhism emerged in Tibet in the 7th century CE Its potent symbol is the vajra which means 'diamond' or 'thunderbolt'. | | | Vajrayana Buddhism - Learn about the history, schools, beliefs and practices of Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism. | | | This is about Vajrayana Buddhism, especially Phowa which is 'transferance of conciousness at time of death. |
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http://www.buddhismnews.it/web_category_97.html
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| | Some Facts About Vajrayana Buddhism |
| | So if Vajrayana is an impure form of Buddhism for the above reasons, then the Buddhism of the Pali texts are also impure, the Buddhism of Sri Lanka etc., are also impure. | | | So to proclaim that Vajrayana is not pure Buddhism, because it does not have forms of Vipassyana meditation is to prove one’s own ignorance and narrow mindedness (to use a classical Buddhist word, ‘Moha’). | | | To claim that since the Newar Buddhists have castes, Vajrayana has caste system and therefore is not a pure form of Buddhism is utter nonsense because no text or form of Vajrayana Buddhism vouches for the caste system.. |
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http://www.byomakusuma.org/Default.aspx?tabid=36
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| | Vajrayana Buddhism |
| | Vajrayana is commonly associated with Tibetan and Mongolian practice, but is spreading across the planet with increasing momentum. | | | This month's article introduces Vajrayana Buddhism, a tradition within Mahayana Buddhism. | | | All Buddhist practice (from the Sanskrit word meaning "enlightened one") stems from the teachings of Siddharta Gautama Buddha (ca.563 - ca.483 B.C.), and has much in common,[ there were many Buddhas before this one, but this one was the Buddha of our age], but initially the focus will be on distinctions between the different traditions. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/buddhism/15124
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| | Luminous Emptiness: May 2004 |
| | Vajrayana deity practices have a Generation (or Creation) stage, where one manifests the deity concerned, and engages in a variety of methods to develop ones clarity and awareness, and then enters the Completion Stage where you are engaged with formless meditation, and rest in the nature of the mind. | | | There is a relation here between this 'similarity' to Vajrayana means in that Soto Zen is what is known as the 'sudden' school, whereas Rinzai Zen is the 'gradual' school. | | | If the major factor which distinguishes the Vajrayana from Mahayana and Hinayana is the fact that it uses the result as the path, whereas the other two yanas use the cause as the path, then Zen is most definitely not Vajrayana. |
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http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_luminousemptiness_archive.html
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| | Vajrayana: Gothic Buddhism? |
| | Part of Vajrayana Buddhism is the belief that ancient Buddhist masters were able to tame powerful demons, to bind them to an unbreakable oath to do good and to protect the religion and its followers. | | | Like all Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism is based on the idea that "life is suffering." In other words, a basic component of existing is the fact that the being who is existing will eventually suffer. | | | The purpose of this page is to show that Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Lamaism) is very closely related to many ideas in the Western gothic subculture. |
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http://www.tibetrpg.com/!Tibet/vajrayana_goth.htm
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| | Buddhism: Just the facts... |
| | Note that Vajrayana schools described below see themselves as part of Mahayana, cultivating both exoteric Mahayana practices and esoteric tantrism, depending on the capacities of the individual. | | | Three months after the passing of Gautama Buddha, The First Council was held at Rajagaha by his immediate disciples who had attained Arahantship (additional info and facts about Arahantship) (Enlightenment). | | | The Vajrayāna (additional info and facts about Vajrayāna) or "Diamond Vehicle" (also referred to as Mantrayana, Tantrayana, Tantric (additional info and facts about Tantric) or esoteric Buddhism) shares many of the basic concepts of Mah&, but also includes a vast array of spiritual techniques designed to enhance Buddhist practice. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/b/bu/buddhism.htm
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| | Basic Knowledge of Vajrayana |
| | Theravada (small vehicle), Mahayana (great vehicle) and Vajrayana (diamond vehicle) are all teachings given by Buddha Sakyamuni; therefore, the essence of the teachings are all the same. | | | Receiving empowerment is like opening the gate to a deity's palace to receive blessing from the deity, thus it empowers the practitioner to do the practice. | | | After entering the Buddhism, we should only rely on High spiritual realization masters and act according to the Dharma. |
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http://www.kagyu-asia.com/t_basic_vajrayana.html
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| | Buddhism - Tantric Buddhism including Tibetan Buddhism |
| | The jewel is symbolic of the teaching, and the lotus of the Buddha. | | | A Vajrayana monk will undertake a long course of study as part of his training and will study aspects of the Theravada, Mahayana and Tantric schools. | | | The term "vajra" originated in Hindu mythology and was the diamond hard thunderbolt used as a weapon by the gods. |
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http://www.acay.com.au/~silkroad/buddha/h_tantric.htm
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| | Vajrayana Meditation |
| | In this initiation of the Vajrayana, the name "penis" is not given to the reproductive organ, here it is called "vajra." The practices which are part of this yoga, therefore, do not resemble the love for a human woman, one other important difference being that here the semen is retained. | | | The meaning of Sunyata in the Mahayana and in the Vajrayana is quite different though in "Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrine" they are listed by the editor as though they were comparable. | | | According to the eight Vajrayana precepts, meetings of yogis and yoginis for the purpose of making offerings and worship should be conducted decorously and there should be no squabbling among them. |
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| | Songs and Meditations of the Tibetan Dhyani Buddhas |
| | The purpose is to introduce the spiritual seeker to elements of the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition outside the bounds of a particular lineage or school. | | | When a Tibetan monk or nun is initiated into a Vajrayana lineage, he or she is often given a Yidam who serves as a spiritual guide, protector, and a focus of meditation. | | | Vajradhara, or he who holds the thunderbolt is said to conquer and subdue all evil spirits who are the enemies of Buddhism. |
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| | Protectors in Vajrayana Buddhism |
| | From Vajrayana's point of view, these beings are actually manifestations of the activities of the Buddhas. | | | For example, generally it is said that there are five Buddha-families but occasionally you will get references to a sixth family with Vajrasattva as the lord (in the five family classification, Vajrasattva belongs to the Vajra family with Aksobhya as the lord). | | | From: choongv@alleg.edu (Hun Lye) Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern Date: 30 Sep 1993 13:00:04 -0700 The following is an attempt to try to explain the significance of "protectors" in the context of Vajrayana Buddhism. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/protect.htm
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| | Buddhism & Meditation in Chicago |
| | Vajrayana Buddhist Center offers classes in Buddhism and meditation in Oak Park, Evanston, Palos Heights, | | | Ordained in 1995, he has a great depth of understanding and skill in presenting the teachings of Buddha in a practical and enjoyable way. | | | Vajrayana Buddhist Center 13 Harrison, Oak Park, IL 60304 708.763.0132 © 2005 - Buddhism & Meditation in Chicago - Map of Site |
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| | Buddhists: Tibetan and Vajrayana |
| | I have studied Tibetan Buddhism and Vajrayana, and it does appeal to me. | | | Many people are facinated by Vajrayana and rush around trying to obtain empowerments and secret Vajrayana teachings. | | | It is good that you have found your home in Buddhism - that is a good start. |
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http://experts.about.com/q/948/3858568.htm
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| | vajrayana |
| | Endowed with a hardly elaborated rite - which takes this time a determinedly religious character - and of a specific institution - the superiority of the Dalai Lama on his people - the Tibetan religion is very remote from the original education of the Buddha. | | | It turns out that the Tibetan Buddhism is a branch very esotéric, said Vajrayana or Vehicle of diamond. |
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http://www.bouddha.ch/english/adn-eng.htm
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| | WAiB - Female Teachers - Vajrayana |
| | In 1986 she became one of the first Western women to be authorized as a lama in the Vajrayana tradition. | | | Cecilie Kwiat has studied and practised within Theravada and Vajrayana since 1965, and was appointed by H.H. the 16th Karmapa to be the first resident teacher at the Karma Kagyu Centre of Toronto (North America's largest Kagyu centre at the time). | | | Since that time she has been teaching Buddhist philosophy and meditation. |
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| | Karmê Chöling - Vajrayana Mandala Intensive |
| | With the Sakyong's blessings, we warmly invite ngöndro and sadhana practitioners who are graduates of the Vajrayana Seminary to two weeks of intensive vajrayana practice. | | | This assembly will be a unified mandala with different facets. | | | John Rockwell has been a student of Buddhism and the Shambhala teachings for 30 years. |
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http://www.karmecholing.org/program.php?program_id=3234
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| | Vajrayana Curriculum |
| | Vajrayana Buddhism is the innermost essence of the Mahayana teachings of the Buddha. | | | In order to have a proper understanding and realization in Vajrayana practice, one must rely on genuine knowledge and wisdom of the three yana view, meditation and action. | | | It is necessary for each individual student to learn this section of the three yana curriculum with his or her own individual Vajrayana master. |
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http://www.nalandabodhi.org/vajrayana_curriculum.html
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| | Buddhist Schools: Vajrayana (Tibetan) |
| | At the center of Tibetan Buddhism is the religious figure called the lama, Tibetan for "guru"," source of another of its names, Lamaism. | | | It is known as Vajrayana because of the ritual use of the vajra, a symbol of imperishable diamond, of thunder and lightning. |
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| | columbus karma thegsum choling |
| | Columbus Karma Thegsum Choling is a Vajrayana Buddhist meditation center in the Tibetan Kama Kagyu tradition under the guidance of His Holiness Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. | | | The center conducts regular events, special programs and classes. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/columbusktc
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| | FAQ: Vajrayana Seminary |
| | Is it true that Europeans will be given preference in attending Vajrayana Seminary? | | | What do you mean by recommended teaching gift? | | | It looks like Kalapa Assembly and Vajrayana Seminary are scheduled back to back. |
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http://www.shambhala.org/programs/vys/faq.php
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| | VAJRAYANA - Jewel in the Lotus - Reading Number 508 |
| | The practitioner of the Vajrayana sees poison as nectar because both are empty and in essence the same; for him the nature of all things is emptiness. | | | But lamas point out that this emptiness cannot be pictured or defined: It is not the image of blankness or dead space that may come to mind. | | | The follower of the Vajrayana cuts through the opaque and solid appearance of the world to find at its core, gleaming like a diamond, the clear and indestructible emptiness that has nothing left in it to be seen or destroyed. |
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http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/Readings/508.htm
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| | The Vajrayana Foundation |
| | The Vajrayana Foundation is a non-profit foundation established by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to establish the Buddha Dharma in the West. | | | Urgent: There are some retreatants who would benefit from a couple laptops for inputting Tibetan texts. | | | The main retreat center for the Vajrayana Foundation is Pema Osel Ling (Lotus Land of Clear Light), located in the Santa Cruz, California. |
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http://www.vajrayana.org
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| | The Vajrayana Bodhisattva Maitreya |
| | ** NOTE: This statement goes against buddhist doctrine in the Vajrayana and Mahayana traditions which holds that Maitreya will incarnate on earth as a bodhisattva at some future time, and become an enlightened buddha during that incarnation. | | | I shall stay to bless the crowds who strive towards truth. | | | This Web Site © Copyright 2000, J. Denosky, All Rights Reserved |
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