Selected Works of the Dalai Lama II

The Tantric Yogas of Sister Niguma

Glen Mullen

Snow Lion

239

1985

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Previous Dalai Lama

1 total

The Second Dalai Lama chose as sources for his considerable literary output practices from the lesser known sects and lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Their special treatment of popular trantric traditions, such as Yamantaka and the yogas of Naropa, are presented here in English for the first time. The four main texts translated here include teachings include teachings on the generation and completion states of Vajrabhairava Tantra - Yamantaka - a survey of the structure and historical development of Indian Buddhism's principal schools, outlining their definitive doctrinal distinctions; detailed instruction in the practice of making and empowering the flower essence pills that free the practioner from the need for ordinary foods and the explicit, extraordinary tantric yogas of Sister Niguma - a special lineage of the six yogas of Naropa transmitted by his consort, the dakini Niguma