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Kālachakra tantra : rite of initiation : for the stage of generation : a commentary on the text of Kay-drup-ge-lek-bel-sang-bo / by Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and the text itself ; edited translated and introduced by Jeffery Hopkins.

Title
Kālachakra tantra : rite of initiation : for the stage of generation : a commentary on the text of Kay-drup-ge-lek-bel-sang-bo / by Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and the text itself ; edited translated and introduced by Jeffery Hopkins.
Author
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
Publication
Boston, MA : Wisdom Publications, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Dge-legs-dpal-bzang-po, Mkhas-grub-rje, 1385-1438
  • Hopkins, Jeffrey.
Description
527 p. : col. ill.; 22 cm.
Uniform Title
Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapịtaka. Tantra. Kālcakrarantra. English & Tibetan.
Subject
  • Kālacakra (Tantric rite) > Tibet Autonomous Region
  • Tripiṭaka. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [472]-474) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Jeffrey Hopkins -- Altruistic Purification -- Deity Yoga : The Special Tantric Technique -- Motivation: The Thirty-Seven Practices -- Emptiness Yoga -- History of the Kalachakra Tantra -- Initiations and Mandalas -- Procedure of the Enhancement -- Procedure of the Initiations -- The Texts -- The Author of the Mandala Rite -- The Author of the Commentary -- Motivation and Internal Initiation -- Supplication and Faith -- Vows and Blessing -- Tooth-Stick, Water, Kusha Grass, and Thread -- Six Lineages and Vajrasattva -- Enthusiasm and Dreams -- Structure -- Outside the Curtain -- Seeing the Mandala -- Water Initiation -- Crown Initiation -- Silk Ribbon Initiation -- Vajra and Bell Initiation -- Conduct Initiation -- Name Initiation -- Permission Initiation and Appendages -- Understanding the Time of Attainment -- Advice to Abandon the Root Infractions -- Prayer-Wishes -- Daily Practice -- Guru Yoga of Kalachakra in Connection with the Six Sessions in Completely Facilitating Form -- Six Session Yoga -- Abbreviated Six Session Yoga -- Mantras in the Kalachakra Initiation, Stage of Generation.
ISBN
0861711513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99018615^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library