- The Vajra Rosary Tantra
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Author’s Preface/Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Typographical Conventions
- Part One: Introduction
- Prologue
- The Legendary Origin of the Vajra Rosary
- The Historical Setting of the Tibetan Vajra Rosary
- Translations of the Vajra Rosary
- Alaṁkakalasha, Tengpa Lotsawa, and Alaṁka’s Commentary
- The Vajra Rosary as an Evolving Text
- The Teachings of the Vajra Rosary and Alaṁka’s Commentary
- 1. The Setting and the Eighty-Two Questions
- 2. The Guru-Disciple Relationship
- 3. The Meaning of “Vajra Rosary” and “Esoteric Community”
- 4. Nonconceptuality
- 5. The Four Consecrations and Tantric Consort Yoga
- 6. Hermeneutics Within the Vajra Rosary
- 7. The Four Ecstasies and the Four Moments
- 8. Secrecy
- 9. The 108 Energy-Winds and Corresponding Conceptualities
- 10. Overcoming the Conceptual Energies
- 11. Engagement of the Senses in the Tantric Way
- 12. Emptiness in the Vajra Rosary Yogic System
- 13. Great Bliss and Its Relation to Emptiness
- 14. The Yoga of Vajra Recitation and Opening the Heart Knot
- 15. Sound and Mantra
- 16. The Three Drops, Three Nose Tips, and Three Main Channels
- 17. Yogic Time
- 18. Birth and Death from the Subtle Body Perspective
- 19. The Chakras and the Channels
- 20. The Buddha Clans
- 21. The Body Mandala
- 22. The Three Luminances
- 23. Etymology as Esoteric Instruction
- 24. The Five Stages and (Two Systems of) Six Yogas of the Perfection Stage
- 25. The Forty-Nine and the Six Yogas of the Creation Stage and the Twenty Rituals
- 26. The Inner Offering
- 27. Peaceful and Terrifying Activities
- 28. The Conclusion of the Tantra
- Part Two: Annotated English Translation
- Title Page
- 1. The Setting of the Tantra: Invocation, Questions, and Activities of the Students, Etc.
- 2. On the Examination of the Teacher and Student, and on Consecration
- 3. Analyzing the Name “Vajra Rosary”
- 4. The Special Elucidation of the Word “Community”
- 5. The Teaching of the Meaning of Emptiness
- 6. The Opening of the Drop and Achieving the Supreme Yoga
- 7. The Explanation of the Word “Nāda”
- 8. The Complete Demonstration of the Provision of the Great Secret
- 9. Defining the Word “Vow”
- 10. Determining the Meaning of the Commitment
- 11. Determining the Meaning of Mere Sound
- 12. Explaining the Reality of Energy
- 13. Explaining the Term “Great Bliss”
- 14. Explaining the Union of the Vajra and the Lotus
- 15. Explaining the Reality of Mantra
- 16. Teaching the Process of Counting the Energies
- 17. Situating the Channel Chakras
- 18. Summary of the Channels of the Yogic Body
- 19. Detailed Explanation of the Characteristics of the Moments
- 20. Analyzing the Characteristics of Ecstasy
- 21. Analyzing the Three Drops
- 22. Explaining the Essence of the Three Bodies
- 23. Determining the Commitment of the Three Realities
- 24. Determining the Three Nose Tips
- 25. Teaching the Words of Emptiness
- 26. Defining the Divine Intuition Body
- 27. Setting Forth the Goddesses in the Order of the Four Chakras
- 28. Arising and Disappearing
- 29. Producing Ecstasy
- 30. The Armor Defining the Down-Flowing Channels
- 31. Ascertaining the Three Intermediate Channels
- 32. Taking Birth as a Person Made of Energy
- 33. The Consumption of Vitality by the Process of the Energies
- 34. The Gathering of the Ḍākinīs
- 35. Cutting Off the Conceptual Energies
- 36. The Characteristics of Nonconceptuality
- 37. Practicing the Disappearance of the Channels
- 38. Meditating on the Six Chakras
- 39. Time and the Measure of Time
- 40. The Fruit of the Secret
- 41. Explaining the Meaning of the Reality Realm
- 42. The Explanation of Vajra
- 43. Summarizing the Meanings of the Various Families
- 44. The Detailed Analysis of the Seal
- 45. The Aggregates, the Sense Media, Etc.
- 46. Ascertaining the Meaning of the Great Seal
- 47. The Analysis of Experiences
- 48. The Meaning of the Word “AHAṀ”
- 49. Analyzing the Characteristics of Emptiness
- 50. The Character Creating Vajra Rosary Emptiness
- 51. Explaining Night and Day in Detail
- 52. Explaining the Vowels and Consonants in Detail
- 53. Explaining Twilight in Detail
- 54. The Extensive Actions of the Twenty Rituals
- 55. Teaching the Reason for and the Result of the Twenty Rituals
- 56. Analyzing the Ritual of the Inner Essence Offering
- 57. The Character of the Goddess
- 58. Teaching the First Word, “EVAṀ,” and Its Reasoning
- 59. Explaining the First Words, “EVAṀ MAYĀ”
- 60. The Internal-Natured Fire Offering
- 61. The Ritual of Drinking the Five Elixirs
- 62. The Communal Circle Rite — Mingling with the Yoginīs
- 63. The Explanation of the Secret Words
- 64. The Mandala of Body, Speech, and Mind
- 65. Defining “Buddha,” “Holy Dharma,” “Sangha,” Etc.
- 66. Teaching the Results of the Actions of Peace, Etc.
- 67. The Eight Attainments of Fierce and Peaceful Recitations, Etc.
- 68. The Epitome of All Attainments
- Colophon
- Appendix, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Endnotes, and Indexes
- Copyright
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