The Vajra Rosary Tantra

Name: The Vajra Rosary Tantra | An Explanatory Tantra of the Esoteric Community Tantra
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An Explanatory Tantra of the Esoteric Community Tantra

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Erschienen am 11. Februar 2020

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Intro
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
Yeshe Ö, Rinchen Zangpo, and Atisha in Western Tibet
Zhiwa Ö
Mantrakalasha
Translations of the Vajra Rosary
Ala?kakalasha, Tengpa Lotsawa, and Ala?ka's Commentary
The Vajra Rosary as an Evolving Text
The Teachings of the Vajra Rosary and Ala?ka'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 "Nada"
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 ?akinis
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 "AHA?"
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, "EVA?," and Its Reasoning
59. Explaining the First Words, "EVA? MAYA"
60. The Internal-Natured Fire Offering
61. The Ritual of Drinking the Five Elixirs
62. The Communal Circle Rite - Mingling with the Yoginis
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
Appendix
The 108 Energy-Winds and Conceptualities
Glossaries
English-Tibetan Glossary
Tibetan-English Glossary
Endnotes
Selected Bibliographies
Modern Sources
Sutras and Tantras
Other Sanskrit and Tibetan Sources
Indexes
Index of Canonical Authors Cited
Index of Canonical Texts Cited
General Index
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