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| | WAiB - Female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas |
 | | Samantabhadri (Kuntuzangmo in Tibetan) is the consort and female counterpart of Samantabhadra/Kuntuzangpo, the primordial Buddha of the older schools of Tibetan Buddhism. | | | Dorje Naljorma, Adamantine Female Practitioner) is the principal female yidam of Highest Yoga Tantra of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism. | | | Samantabhadri (Kuntuzangmo) - guru and yidam - Primordial Mother of all the Buddhas |
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http://members.tripod.com/~Lhamo/9deity.htm
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| | Dharma Dictionary - Yidam |
| | Yidams may be sambhogkaya buddhas, tantric deities, bodhisattvas, dharma protectors or historical figures. | | | The yidam is one of the so-called Three Roots that are the objects of refuge in vajrayana: the guru, the yidams, and the protectors and dakinis. | | | To define the concept of the yidam is to approach the essence of Tibetan Buddhism. |
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http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2005/spring/dharma_dictionary.html
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| | Glossary of Terms |
| | Yidam is sometimes referred to as one’s meditational deity or one’s tutelary deity. | | | In short, a yidam is the practitioner’s personal or main deity for Tantric practice; i.e., the deity with which the practitioner has the strongest connection. | | | They are visualized during meditative practice and are regarded as being inseparable from the mind of the meditator. |
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http://www.zhaxizhuoma.net/DHARMA/GLOSSARY/IndexGlossaryY.htm
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| | Show Writings |
| | A yidam is not a God with a capitol G. Buddhist deities are beings who exist in a formless state of pure skandhas (aggregates) without the afflictions, obscurations and negativities of the three poisons which characterize the state of human beings’ skandhas. | | | Yidam are either realized beings who where once in human form, for example, Buddha Shakyamuni was Siddhartha Gotama before his enlightenment; some yidam are aspects of such beings visualized separately for purposes of practice. | | | We create this natural “harmonic” with a yidam to receive the blessing of the yidam, infusing and mingling our mind with the wisdom and compassion of the yidam; this is the enlightened, compassionate activity of the blessing itself. |
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http://www.prairiesangha.org/articles/displayArticles.cfm?ID=119
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| | Ngak'chang Rinpoche in Bristol |
| | In the Aro gTér lineage, all yidams are seen as manifestations of the Buddhas Yeshé Tsogyel and her consort Padmasambhava. | | | Not all yidams have had incarnation as people, but some people are considered manifestations of Yidams. | | | Sometimes the male yidams such as Padmasambhava carry a trident to portray their empty aspect rather than manifesting in sexual union, but whatever the form of the male yidam – emptiness always has to be portrayed in addition to his own appearance. |
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http://www.aroter.org/articles/bristol_talks.htm
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| | Empowerment & Guru Yoga |
| | The yidam is a manifestation of the Mind of the Lama. | | | Yidams are all different forms of the same thing, but as forms they connect to the different forms of deluded mind. | | | Since the aim of guru yoga is to unify oneself with the guru visualised as the yidam, and the aim of self-arising is to unify oneself with the yidam (who is actually the guru in disguise)—isn’t this distinction rather subtle? |
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http://www.aroter.org/articles/sdw/empowerment_guru_yoga.htm
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| | Tibet Information Network - Obituary of Tibetan writer Yidam Tsering |
| | Yidam Tsering is reported to have expressed his deep regret at not being able to write in Tibetan but many of his readers have commented on the significance of how his writing introduced Tibetan culture and history to a large Chinese readership. | | | Yidam Tsering only wrote in Chinese but his work was translated into Tibetan and was widely read. | | | It was in this period that Yidam Tsering became increasingly concerned with the development of Tibet and Tibetan educational improvement. |
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http://www.tibetinfo.net/news-updates/2004/2012.htm
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| | DhrmaStudent's Xanga Site |
| | It is advised in Deity Yoga or Yidam practice to have the eyes slightly open, to be aware of the world, and creating the view as seeing the world as the pure realm, in which those who cause you trouble, are Enlightened. | | | Shamatha and Yidam practice, cultivating the means to the attain the highest Enlightenment. | | | In Vajrayana Buddhism, there is the Yidam, the image of the True nature of mind, in the Sambhogakaya form. |
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http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=DhrmaStudent
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| | Chapter Five Part 2 |
| | As being non-dual with the yidam [Buddha aspect] that you venerate | | | The Yidam (yi dam) is a meditational deity. | | | The yidam is a form through which the Buddha tames beings and confers on them the necessary initiations to practice tantra. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/greatchariot6-2.htm
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| | Show Writings |
| | Yidam are deities, beings who have accomplished the indestructible nature of all the buddhas. | | | It is also a practice beyond conceptual mind in which the guru or yidam’s blessings and compassionate activity enters and transforms our minds. | | | Vajrasattva and the Buddha are such beings and we can still, to this day, draw upon their wisdom and compassionate energy in this manner. |
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http://www.prairiesangha.org/articles/displayArticles.cfm?ID=106
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| | Paradigm Shift - Change of Beliefs |
| | One of the first things he found was that the Yidam had a fearful, almost demonic aspect - something not uncommon in Tibetan deities. | | | Being able to see the Yidam was a great thing, but a teaching deity was useless if you couldn't hear what it wished to say to you. | | | He had to do only one more thing, and that was to persuade the Yidam to leave the magic circle of the kylkhor. |
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http://www.deeptrancenow.com/paradigm.htm
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| | Sakyamuni - Introduction |
| | Yidam (I˦a Deva) is a chosen deity of the trainee. | | | Yidam represents his particular characteristic expression of Buddha nature. | | | The trainee visualises to identify with his chosen deity which means to identify with his own primordial nature, free from its defiled.aspects. |
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http://www.ignca.nic.in/ex042004.htm
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| | Buddhist Deities |
| | Chakrasamvara is regarded as the most important Yidam or meditational deity of Vajrayana Buddhism, the highest Tantric yidam. | | | Chakrasamvara is the primary Yidam of the Kagyu tradition that finds its origin in the meditation of the 84 Mahasiddhis of India. | | | 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. |
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http://www.iloveulove.com/buddhistdeities.htm
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| | The Correct Attitude of a Vajrayana Practitioner by HH Shamarpa Rinpoche |
| | Certain people think that yidam practice is to invite the deity to come forth or to enter their bodies. | | | The deity or yidam can manifest in the form of Sambhogakaya or Nirmanakaya. | | | When you are doing the yidam practice, do not think that you are inviting the deity to you. |
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http://www.kagyu-asia.com/t_correct.html
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| | Whispers 2 |
| | The fact that all the yidams are emanated by Buddha Shakyamuni does not mean they are all identical. | | | Through the practice of this same yidam path, those of mediocre or average capacities and moderate merit accumulations may attain complete liberation at the time of death, or in the period after death. | | | Acknowledging varying types of sentient discrimination the Buddha Shakyamuni emanated myriad yidam deities. |
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http://www.nimmersoft.dk/~buddha/whispers2.htm
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| | Vajrayana Meditation |
| | A Samayasattva (in Tibetan literally 'oath-bound' natural holiness) or Yidam is that anthropomorphic form of Buddha or Bodhisattva on which the meditator regularly practices over a long period of time until he realizes unity with that wisdom form. | | | When the Yidam is a Nirmanakaya form such as Sakyamuni, then the gates stand for the Four Noble Truths; when Avalokitesvara is the Yidam then their meaning is the Four Boundless Minds; and if the center of the mandala is occupied by a Yidam of Wisdom, as Manjusri, then the gates are the Four Mindfulness. | | | A person has only one yidam, either selected by himself or chosen by the guru, and to this yidam one is bound by an oath taken at the time of initiation. |
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http://www.yogichen.org/chenian/bk72.html
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| | DUDJOM NEW TREASURE |
| | The participant is authorized to practice the Yidam Dorje Drolod by reciting the mantra, visualization and meditation. | | | recitation of the Yidam mantra is equivalent to practicing the sadhana. | | | After it is blessed by the wisdom yidam, it possesses great protection power. |
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http://garabdorje.org/grandpujasipoh03.html
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| | Making Sense of Tantra: Chp 14: Sexual Wayfarers |
| | The Yidam deity the obstreperous monk might have found in his terror and humiliation was surely disguised in his victimhood. | | | Clear mind sees the Yidam deity in the basest of human propensities and declares on the basis of its gnosis that everything is an opportunity for spiritual ascent. | | | But he says not, "I am God," but, "God is me" -- in the sense of the Yidam deity. |
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http://www.jrhaule.net/ipet14.html
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| | Yidam |
| | There are six types of yidam, with the defining attributes of a given deity depending on a) gender and b) the three qualities defined as gentle, semi-fierce or fierce. | | | The personal deity (male or female) of a practitioner, embodying her or his potential nature once it is awakened; chosen and visualized according to one's psychologial makeup. |
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http://www.yoniversum.nl/dakini/yidam.html
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| | Dbang and Yidam |
| | However, spiritual trawlers might pick up on dbang (empowerment) and yidam (personal or tutelary deity, what Hindus call ishta devata; aka root of accomplishment or karya mool; personal protector or rakshak of both ang and atma; and our practical guide to enlightenment). | | | Borrowing bits from the Kalachakra or Wheel of Time model beloved of Indian religions, the first, obviously, is Water Empowerment. | | | In everyday terms, what could spiritual terms like dbang and yidam mean in the life of a nation struggling towards Betterness? |
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http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=76718
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| | On the Meaning of Samaya by HH Shamarpa Rinpoche |
| | The lama is considered as the centre or main yidam, deity of the mandala. | | | In order to overcome the habitual tendencies relating to the bindhu, the Vajrayana meditation involves generating the seed syllable of a yidam-deity from which the yidam then manifests. | | | The following concerns background explanation regarding the breaking of samaya by means of harming the vajra-master: With respect to Vajrayana practice, especially in the Annuttarayogatantra, the outer world including sentient beings is transformed into a pure aspect. |
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http://www.kagyu-asia.com/t_meaning_samaya.html
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| | Buddhist Problems Answered |
| | If both the yidam and the deity to be visualized are in the same Buddha family, then they should be seen in the correct positions, as when Avalokitesvara or Amitabha are visualized on the head of Tara. | | | If she is one’s yidam, it is good for the First Initiation and she may again be worshipped in single form in the Fourth Initiation, but in the Third, the yidam must be in Heruka-form. | | | Once a peaceful or a wrathful form is chosen as the yidam, one must worship only that one as the yidam. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/buddhist_problems_answered.htm
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| | Buddhism in Tibet, buddhist ritual, tibet tours |
| | Many yidams are depicted as images of Yabyum (father and mother Buddha), in which they have a number of arms and legs, striking wrathful red or blue faces, tiger skins wrapped around their waists and holding onto a goddess. | | | A Yidam’s wife is called a Dakini and is herself a religious figure revered by the people. | | | The goddess Palden Lhamo is the yidam who protects the whole of Tibet. |
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http://www.tibetanexpeditions.com/about_tibet/buddhism_practice.htm
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| | Lojong and Tonglen Community Site |
| | The goddess Tara, his yidam, then came to him in a dream and said that he was responsible for the expulsion of a sincere practitioner, and that as penance he should go to Tibet and teach. | | | Probably the most commonly used yidam is the 'god' or 'goddess' (terms used very loosely) of universal compassion, known as Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, Chenrezig in Tibetan, and Kuan Yin in Chinese. | | | Generally used in these commentaries to refer to any kind of method used for ends of spiritual development. |
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http://lojongmindtraining.com/glossary.aspx
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| | On Padmasambhava’s Rainbow Body |
| | Of the lower three yogas, Kriya Yoga is serving the Buddha, Carya Yoga is working for the Buddha, and Yogic Yoga is to practice visualizations on your own body not only on Buddha outside your body. | | | Before the first of the four Great Initiations, which is the Yidam Initiation, you must practice the lower three yogas and along with this the bubble visualization where inside all is empty and everything outside is a reflection. | | | The Buddha body is inside as a bubble, as Sunyata; outside are the Buddha’s five colors and six ornaments; or you can meditate on some yidam, whatever it looks like according to its ritual. |
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http://www.yogichen.org/chenian/bk93.html
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Yidam |
| | At some point, a student will, together with his lama, determine which Yidam deity will be most important for his or her practice, and that's the one the student will focus on. | | | Chenrezig is an excellent choice of Diety to focus on, Chenrezig due to specific vows is particularly "available" to the human realm. | | | I forgot to mention that whenever I take refuge I try to visualize Sakyamuni Buddha but usually end up seeing Chenrezig. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=8721
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| | Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal - Teachings |
| | The second root of the refuge is the root of spiritual accomplishments, which is the yidam. | | | We can imagine the main yidam as being whoever we feel the most faith in or are most comfortable with. | | | We practise yidam meditation both in the visualizing stage and the completion stage. |
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http://www.greatliberation.com/teachings/texts/mahamudra/text4.htm
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| | Antidotes to not understanding how to achieve enlightenment: Vajrayana Practices |
| | Through the empowerment of the yidam deities, we identify and become one with the yidam itself so that the ordinary vision of the mind is purified. | | | The yidam is the individual's special deity or guide, inseparable from himself, and taking him to Enlightenment. | | | Therefore any practice we do should include bodhicitta, yidam practice, guru yoga, Mahamudra and the dedication of merit. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/VajrayanaPractice.htm
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| | Bodhipath Deutschland Shamar Rinpoche |
| | When the disciple arrives at a certain stage, then according to his individual qualities, the guru will select a yidam for the disciple who will then do the Mahamudra practice according to his designated yidam. | | | They still received teachings and initiations on many yidam practices and then practised them. | | | They still did the Guru Yoga on Padmasambhava, on Milarepa, or on Karmapa. |
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http://www.emaho.de/bodhipath/kurse/ksr_aug04/ksr_04.html
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| | Enam Prayoga |
| | Asalkan berlatih Sadhana Yidam, pasti akan cepat memperoleh kontak (yoga)! | | | Setelah berlatih Catur Prayoga, Enam Prayoga, setelah memperoleh kontak (yoga) barulah boleh memasuki Dewatayoga atau Sadhana Istadewata (Yidam) yang termasuk dalam tingkatan samyoga. | | | Setelah Enam Prayoga dikuasai baru memasuki tahap samyoga, dan Anda pun akan memperoleh kontak (yoga) dalam waktu singkat. |
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http://www.tbsn.org/indonesian/enamprayoga.htm
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| | Chakrasamvara Empowerment |
| | Rinpoche will teach during one of these 4 sessions on the unity of the Chakrasamvara yidam practice with Mahamudra meditation, while another session will be a meditation with Rinpoche as he does the preparations for the empowerment. | | | The Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche will be giving the empowerment for the heart yidam of the Kagyu lineage, Chakrasamvara, on Saturday and Sunday, October 23-24th, at the USF Lone Mountain Conference Center (Room 148) in San Francisco. | | | There are no samaya restrictions for taking the empowerment, but refuge is required. |
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http://www.rinpoche.com/sfwong04.htm
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| | The Jivamala - Chen Ma, The Life of a Vajrayana Buddhist Nun |
| | This is a meditation for initiates who are troubled with the sin of pride. | | | He or she must set out a meditation mat, and sit in a stable position. | | | The person must first call down his or her Yidam to verify that this is a problem. |
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http://www.many-lives.com/lives/buddhist-num-7.html
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| | Tiger |
| | The tiger is associated with the visionary power of the yidam, so every yidam wears a tiger-skin skirt. | | | When Dorje Tröllö (the most wrathful of the Eight Manifestations of Padmakara) rides a tigress, she is the manifestation of his consort Tashi Chhi'dr | | | The sky-tiger was also a pre-existing Bön yidam. |
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http://www.aroter.net/images/thangkas/tiger1.htm
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| | KTD--Comments on the Practice of the Chenrezig Sadhana-- |
| | Practices such as the Chenrezig and Tara sadhanas can be approached by someone leading an ordinary life, and the Chenrezig meditation is uncommon both in the ease of its performance and the blessing that it bestows. | | | With faith, aspiration, and the proper attitude--with meditation on one hand and actual compassion on the other--transformation can actually occur. | | | If such a transformation into a worldly form is possible, then transformation into the form of Chenrezig is even easier, because the yidam exists as a yeshe sempa, which means wisdom being. |
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http://www.kagyu.org/buddhism/dev/dev03.html
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| | Malas - Prayer Beads |
| | Mantra recitations are counted in order to complete certain aspects of the practice, to aid purfication and to maintain mindfulness. | | | Malas are primarily used as a tool to aid with one's personal yidam or deity practice. |
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http://www.garudatrading.com/LETS_GO_SHOPPING_zbMalas_zn_Prayer_Beads.html
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| | After merging...the yogi attempts to move, speak, and act as the deity." - Roger N. Walsh, The Spirit of Shamanism "Sometimes, when a master is training a novice...he tells the disciple to shut himself in a hermitage and meditate till his Yidam or tutelary god appears. | | | Sometimes the disciple goes further, into a sort of dark night of the soul, and confesses with anguish that although the Yidam is present, he no longer believes in it as an independent being. | | | A disciple who has got so far may now simply go off in triumph, with his master's congratulations and the Yidam in attendance as his guardian angel. |
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http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.out-of-body/20000730_Tuplas_and_Tibetan_Mysticism
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| | [No title] |
| | Thus, while the woman in profane consciousness is dragged down through mutual "mob" participation to the brutal realm of her rapists' lust, Yeshe elevates them all through sublime mutual participation into the sphere of the Yidam deity. | | | By accepting both the lower form of lust and its higher divine meaning, she "accepts the situation and controls it." She turns her attention to the rising kundalini which begins in the lust and impotence of the navel chakra but finds its transcendent meaning in the opening of the crown chakra. | | | Looking inward to the surging reality of kundalini, she knows without doubt that the brutality of lust is a human fact that harbors the sublime reality of the Yidam deity of lust-consciousness whose higher meaning is Spontaneous Great Bliss. |
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http://jayhaque.freeprohost.com/study/tantra_rape.txt
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| | Blogopotamus! » Blog Archive » Buddhist Tantra |
| | In which case, all the devotion and romanticism of the troubadour are distinct advantages (feeding the system with its energy, as it were), rather than being counter-productive “interference” hindering the properly Buddhist task of recognizing anatman. | | | Neither myself nor the person I was discussing the issue with are experts on the subject, so I’d appreciate feedback from both experts and non-experts alike on the question of whether our idea of tantra is in any way appropriate to what it is and the way it is actually practiced. | | | (It is not clear to me whether this can be reversed — instead of appropriating one’s yidam into oneself allowing oneself to be apppropriated into the yidam instead, thus losing one’s personal consciousness in the enlightened consciousness of the yidam). |
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http://www.soc-ssbj.org/blog?p=173
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| | KTD--A Teaching on the Chenrezig Sadhana-- |
| | That is why we make the earnest request here to not just anybody but to Lama Chenrezig, lama meaning one who has superior realization, superior knowledge, who has overcome all defilements, and who is thus capable of helping those with defilements become free of them. | | | The nature of a yidam is such that, when the practitioner's mind makes a connection with it, he or she can rely on that connection, and the yidam can provide the necessary benefit for which the connection is made. | | | Since Chenrezig is the embodiment of so many noble qualities, the qualities of a lama, the qualities of a yidam, the qualities of the perfectly noble one among realized beings, then Chenrezig is the lord of protection, or KYAP GON CHENREZIG. |
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http://www.kagyu.org/buddhism/dev/dev01.html
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| | Yidam |
| | You will thereby attain the three bodies of the buddha mind which are the absolute refuge." Kalu Rinpoche | | | "At the beginning, when you meditate on the Three Roots in general, or on your yidam in particular, you can perceive them as outer. | | | Holes in the screen of these obscurations will allow some light to filter through; the blessing of the yidam will bring even more clarity, and you will eventually realize that the yidam and your mind are not different. |
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http://jeffsutherland.com/tara/yidam.html
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| | Photo gallery of Boom Tsok 2003 |
| | Könchok Chidü thangka – the Lama Tsokyé Dorjé, the Yidam Guru Drakpo and the Khandro Sengé Dongma | | | His Eminence the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jigme Losel Wangpo and from right to left: Lama Rangjung; Dratsang Khenpo Sönam Özer; Löpon Yidam Dorjé; Löpon Thubten Yeshi | | | This annual 5-day ceremony bought the Dhondenling community together to make vast food offerings in order to clear away obstacles and create good fortune and auspicous circumstances. |
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http://www.dzogchen.org.in/galleries/boomtsok2003.html
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| | Shalu Association - GONGKAR CHÖDE MONASTERY |
| | The entire Yidam chapel, on the first floor, containing ten large panels depicting tantric deities, is in a different style, perhaps a little later, but of excellent execution. | | | There are also chapels to the sides of the assembly hall, and a further, later, chapel added on the north side of the building, with the Kyedor lhakhang, or Yidam chapel, above it. | | | The sixteenth-century wall paintings with which Shalu Association is principally concerned are located in the assembly hall, the circumambulatory passage, and in the first floor (level 2) Yidam chapel of the northern extension. |
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http://www.asianart.com/shalu/gongkar
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| | Literally, “one who goes up into the sky.” A female Yidam of wrathful or semi-wrathful appearance. | | | Traditionally tricky and playful beings, they represent also the fertility or receptivity which allows the play of samsara and nirvana. | | | Literally, “hero” or “warrior.” Formally, a masculine Yidam of semi-wrathful appearance. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/EsodictD.html
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