- A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- General Editor’s Preface
- Translator’s Introduction
- Technical Note
- A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages: Core Teachings on the Glorious Guhyasamāja, King of Tantras
- Part 1. Divisions of Highest Yoga Tantra
- 2. The Two Types of Tantra
- 3. Specific Explanation of Guhyasamāja Method Tantra
- 4. Praise of Guhyasamāja
- 5. Commentarial Traditions
- Part 2. The Path of Guhyasamāja
- 6. Training in the Guhyasamāja
- 7. The Two Stages
- 8. Explanation of Evāṃ and of Bliss and Emptiness
- 9. The Necessity of Penetrating Vital Points on the Body
- Part 3. The Divisions of the Completion Stage
- Part 4. Body Isolation
- 12. Identifying Body Isolation
- 13. Types of Body Isolation
- 14. How Body Isolation Is Incorporated into the Six Yogas
- 15. The Practice of Body Isolation
- Part 5. Speech Isolation
- 16. Identifying Speech Isolation
- 17. Divisions, Functions, and Movement of the Winds
- 18. Significance of the Mantras
- 19. Prāṇāyāma Meditations 267
- 20. Vajra Repetition
- 21. Experiences in Prāṇāyāma Meditation
- Part 6. Mind Isolation
- Part 7. The Conventional-Truth Illusory Body
- 24. Gaining Instructions on the Illusory Body
- 25. Methods of Attaining the Illusory Body
- 26. The Mixings
- Part 8. The Ultimate-Truth Clear Light
- 27. Stages of Attainment
- 28. The Outer and Inner Mastery
- 29. The Two Meditative Absorptions
- 30. How the Path of Tantra Must Occur on the Sutra Path
- 31. How Clear Light Is Incorporated into the Six Yogas
- Part 9. The Stage of Union
- Part 10. Tantric Activities
- 34. General Presentation of Activities
- 35. Highest Yoga Tantra Activities
- 36. Rituals for the Three Activities
- 37. The Attainment of Complete Enlightenment
- Colophon and Dedication
- Table of Tibetan Transliteration
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
- The Institute of Tibetan Classics
- The Library of Tibetan Classics
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- Copyright
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