Yoga tantras
Tantras of the Yoga class based mainly on meditational practices, including those emphasizing skillful means followed by those emphasizing wisdom (Toh 479-493).
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
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The Compendium of Realities
དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བསྡུས་པ། · de kho na nyid bsdus pa/
tattvasaṃgraha
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- The Compendium of Realities, a Mahāyāna Sūtra
- sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgrahanāmamahāyānasūtra
- sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgrahanāmamahāyānasūtra
- 一切如來真實攝經
- de kho na nyid bsdus pa theg pa chen po'i mdo/
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi de kho na nyid bsdus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo/
- (大正藏:佛說一切如來真實攝大乘現證三昧大教王經)
The Great Secret Yogatantra, the Tip of the Vajra
གསང་བ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྩེ་མོ། · gsang ba rnal 'byor chen po'i rgyud rdo rje rtse mo/
vajraśekharamahāguhyayogatantra
The Tantra, the Universal Secret
ཐམས་ཅད་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · thams cad gsang ba'i rgyud/
sarvarahasyatantra
Summary
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Title variants
- thams cad gsang ba zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- sarvarahasyanāmatantrarāja
The Great Sovereign of Practices, the Victory Over the Three Worlds
འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་ལས་རྒྱལ་བའི་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ། · 'jig rten gsum las rgyal ba'i rtog pa'i rgyal po chen po/
trailokyavijayakalpa
Summary
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Title variants
- trailokyavijayamahākalparāja
- 'jig rten gsum las rnam par rgyal ba rtog pa'i rgyal po chen po/
- 《普勝三界品之王》
The Tantra Purifying Evil Destinies
ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་རྒྱུད། · ngan song sbyong rgyud/
sarvadurgatipariśodhanatejorāja
Summary
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Title variants
- [Note: this is the early translation, “mother,” “twelve-maṇḍala,” version of the tantra; cf Toh 485, the later translation]
- sarvadurgatipariśodhanatejorājasya tathāgatasyārhataḥ saṃyaksaṃbuddhasya kalpa nāma
- sbyong rgyud ma/
- de bzhin gshegs pa dgra bcom pa yang dag par rdzogs pa'i sangs rgyas ngan song thams cad yongs su sbyong ba gzi brjid kyi rgyal po'i brtag pa zhes bya ba/
The Actions to be Practiced
མངོན་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་ལས། · mngon spyod kyi las/
[no Sanskrit title]
A Portion of the Practice of the Sovereign Tantra Purifying Evil Destinies
ངན་སོང་ཡོངས་སུ་སྦྱོང་བ་རྒྱལ་པོའི་བརྟག་པ་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་པ། · ngan song yongs su sbyong ba rgyal po'i brtag pa phyogs gcig pa/
sarvadurgatipariśodhanatejorājasya kalpaikadeśaḥ
Summary
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Title variants
- [Note: this is the late translation, “son,” “eleven-maṇḍala,” version of the tantra; cf Toh 483, the early translation]
- sarvadurgatipariśodhanatejorājasya tathāgatasyārhataḥ saṃyaksaṃbuddhasya kalpaikadeśo nāma
- sbyong rgyud bu/
- de bzhin gshegs pa dgra bcom pa yang dag par rdzogs pa'i sangs rgyas ngan song thams cad yongs su sbyong ba gzi brjid kyi rgyal po'i brtag pa phyogs gcig pa zhes bya ba/
The Tantra Summarizing Consecration
རབ་གནས་མདོར་བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད། · rab gnas mdor bsdus pa'i rgyud/
supratiṣṭhatantra
Summary
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Title variants
- rab tu gnas pa mdor bsdus pa'i rgyud/
- supratiṣṭhatantrasaṃgraha
The Supreme
དཔལ་མཆོག་དང་པོ། · dpal mchog dang po/
paramādikalpa
Summary
This text is classified as a Yogatantra. In India, this tantra was originally united with the following text in the Kangyur (Toh 488) as a single text. But in the Tibetan Kangyur they are represented as two individual texts, since different teams of translators rendered the two parts into Tibetan at different times. The teacher of the tantra is Vairocana. In this text the Buddha Vairocana first teaches seventeen pure states observed by bodhisattvas as they accomplish the perfection of insight. Next, over twelve chapters, Vairocana emanates a large number of maṇḍalas and he reveals the rituals and practices associated with these awakened environments.
Title variants
- śrīparamādināmamahāyānakalparāja
- 最胜本初經
- (大正藏:佛說最上根本大樂金剛不空三昧大教王經第一分至第十三分)
- dpal mchog dang po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i rtog pa'i rgyal po/
A Section of the Chapter on Mantras of "The Supreme"
རྟོག་པའི་དུམ་བུ། · rtog pa'i dum bu/
paramādyamantrakalpakhaṇḍa
Summary
This text is classified as a Yogatantra. In India, this tantra was united with the previous text in the Kangyur (Toh 487) as a single text. But in the Tibetan Kangyur they are represented as two individual texts, since different teams of translators rendered the two parts into Tibetan at different times. The teacher of the tantra is Vairocana but the rituals also focus on the Buddha Vajrasattva. This latter part of the tantra is longer and consists of forty-four chapters that together comprise the second, third, and fourth sections of the larger work. As such, although it is called the “Chapter on Mantras” it covers many additional instructions. First, a lengthy description is given of the benefits that arise from the practice of the perfection of wisdom as taught in the first part of the tantra. In the remainder of the tantra, the Buddha Vajrasattva emanates the maṇḍalas taught earlier in the text and he teaches in great detail about their connected rituals.
Title variants
- dpal mchog dang po'i sngags kyi rtog pa'i dum bu zhes bya ba/
- śrīparamādyamantrakalpakhaṇḍanāma
- 最胜本初經
- (大正藏:佛說最上根本大樂金剛不空三昧大教王經第十四分至第二十五分)
The Principles of the Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred and Fifty Lines
ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་ཚུལ་བརྒྱ་ལྔ་བཅུ་པ། · shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i tshul brgya lnga bcu pa/
prajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcaśatikā
Summary
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Title variants
- 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i tshul brgya lnga bcu pa
- āryaprajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcaśatikā
- brgya lnga bcu pa/
- The Sūtra in One Hundred and Fifty Lines
- adhyardhaśatikā
- prajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcāśatikā
- 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i tshul brgya lnga bcu pa/
- sher phyin brgya lnga bcu pa/
- āryaprajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcaśatikā
- prajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcāśatikā
The Tantra, the Ornament of the Vajra Essence
རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོ་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje snying po rgyan gyi rgyud/
vajramaṇḍālaṃkāratantra
Summary
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Title variants
- śrīvajramaṇḍālaṃkaranāmamahātantrarājā
- 《金剛場莊嚴怛特羅》 (大正藏:《佛說金剛場莊嚴般若波羅蜜多經中 一分》)
- dpal rdo rje snying po rgyan zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po/
The Twenty-five Entrances to the Perfection of Wisdom
ཤེར་ཕྱིན་སྒོ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་ལྔ་པ། · sher phyin sgo nyi shu rtsa lnga pa/
pañcaviṃśatikāprajñāpāramitāmukha
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Title variants
- 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i sgo nyi shu rtsa lnga pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
- āryapañcaviṃśatikāprajñāpāramitāmukhanāmamahāyānasūtra
- The Twenty-Five Entrances to the Perfection of Wisdom
- pañcaviṃśatikāprajñāpāramitāmukhasūtra
- 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i sgo nyi shu rtsa lnga pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo/
- āryapañcaviṃśatikāprajñāpāramitāmukhanāmamahāyānasūtra
The Tantra of the Array of Secret Ornaments
གསང་བ་རྒྱན་བཀོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད། · gsang ba rgyan bkod kyi rgyud/
guhyālaṃkāravyūhatantra
Summary
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Title variants
- sarvatathāgatakāyavākcittaguhyālaṃkāravyūhatantrarājānāma
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi sku dang/ gsung dang/ thugs kyi gsang ba rgyan gyi bkod pa zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- 《秘密莊嚴嚴飾怛特羅》
The Sūtra of the Secret Jewel Ornament
གསང་བ་ནོར་བུ་ཐིག་ལེའི་མདོ། · gsang ba nor bu thig le'i mdo/
guhyamaṇitilakasūtra
Summary
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Title variants
- āryaguhyamaṇitilakanāmasūtra
- 《秘密摩尼明點經》
- 'phags pa gsang ba nor bu thig le zhes bya ba'i mdo/