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Advanced Meditation – Tantra Teachings

Level 1: Getting Started

Making Sense of Tantra: Basic Questions and Doubts

1 The Meaning of Tantra chaptereBook
2 The Authenticity of the Tantras chaptereBook
3 The Use of Ritual in Tantra Practice chaptereBook
4 Buddha-Figures chaptereBook
5 Tantric Imagery chaptereBook
Introduction to Tantra chapter eBook
Basic Features of Tantra mediumessay
A Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra multiple itemsaudio course

Essentials of Tantra in Terms of Hologram Theory

(Seattle, Washington, April 2003)
Part 1 Lower Quality (4.4 MB) | Higher Quality (9.2 MB)0:38 hoursmp3 audio
Part 2 Lower Quality (5.2 MB) | Higher Quality (10.6 MB)0:45 hoursmp3 audio
Part 3 Lower Quality (5.4 MB) | Higher Quality (11.2 MB)0:47 hoursmp3 audio
part 4 Lower Quality (4.5 MB) | Higher Quality (7.1 MB)0:30 hoursmp3 audio
Part 5 Lower Quality (4.9 MB) | Higher Quality (10. 1 MB)0:42 hoursmp3 audio
Part 6 Lower Quality (3.8 MB) | Higher Quality (7.8 MB)0:33 hoursmp3 audio
Part 7 Lower Quality (5 MB) | Higher Quality (10.2 MB)0:43 hoursmp3 audio
Part 8 Lower Quality (3.4 MB) | Higher Quality (6.9 MB)0:29 hoursmp3 audio

Theory of Tantra in Terms of Inseparable Samsara and Nirvana

(Berlin, Germany, March 2007)
Part 1 Lower Quality (7.2 MB) | Higher Quality (15.1 MB)1:03 hoursmp3 audio
Part 2 Lower Quality (5 MB) | Higher Quality (11.1 MB)0:43 hoursmp3 audio
Part 3 Lower Quality (8.6 MB) | Higher Quality (19.2 MB)1:15 hoursmp3 audio
Part 4 Lower Quality (6 MB) | Higher Quality (13.3 MB)0:53 hoursmp3 audio

General Kriya Tantra Practice

(Berlin, Germany, March 2007)
Part 1 Lower Quality (6.5 MB) | Higher Quality (14.4 MB)0:56 hoursmp3 audio
Part 2 Lower Quality (7.3 MB) | Higher Quality (16.2 MB)1:04 hoursmp3 audio
The Meaning and Use of a Mandala shortessay
Explanation of the Meaning and Use of a Mandala (Munich, Germany, December 2003) Lower Quality (5.7 MB) | Higher Quality (11.6 MB)0:50 hoursmp3 audio

Level 2: Basic Theory

Buddha-Nature and the Clear Light Mind (Berlin, Germany, October 2006) Lower Quality (1.4 MB) | Higher Quality (3.5 MB)0:12 hoursmp3 audio
Buddha-Family Traits (Buddha Families) and Aspects of Experience shortsketch
Five Buddha-Family Traits in Daily Life: Gelug Anuttarayoga and Karma Kagyu Mahamudra Presentations mediumessay

Making Sense of Tantra: Why Tantra Is More Efficient than Sutra

1 Gelug Presentation of Tantra in General chapter eBook
2 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Tantra chapter eBook
3 Gelug Presentation of Anuttarayoga in General chaptereBook
4 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Anuttarayoga chapter eBook
5 Kalachakra chapter eBook
The Six Alternatives and Four Modes for Explaining Vajra Expressions in Anuttarayoga Tantra shortsketch

Level 3: Intermediate Theory

Happiness: An In-Depth Analysis of Its Role in Sutra and Tantra

Session One: The Innate Joy of the Mind mediumtranscript
Session Two: Recognizing the Various Levels of Happiness medium transcript
Session Three: Combining Blissful Awareness with an Understanding of Voidness medium transcript
The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations longessay
Divisions, Causes, and Elimination of Unpurified Appearance-Making According to Non-Gelug shortessay
Ridding Oneself of the Two Sets of Obscurations in Sutra and Highest Tantra According to Nyingma and Sakya mediumessay
Comparison of Highest Tantra Voidness Meditation in the Four Tibetan Traditions shortsketch

Level 4: Advanced Points

Alaya and Impure Appearance-Making shortessay
Conventional and Deepest Bodhichitta and the Two Truths in Anuttarayoga Tantra shortessay
Relationships between Two Objects in Anuttarayoga Tantra shortessay

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