Conduct tantras
Tantras of the Conduct class with both meditational and ritual elements, mostly centered on the deities Vairocana, Acala, or Vajrapāṇi (Toh 494-501).
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Conduct tantras
This is the smallest class of tantras, comprising only 8 works in the Kangyur. The Conduct tantra practice and view are intermediate between those of the Yoga and Action tantras; external ritual is important, but the goal is liberation through internal, meditative practice. Vairocana, Acala and Vajrapāṇi are the principal deities. Other terms (used in some Nyingma classifications of tantra) are Upayoga and Ubhayatantra.
The works in this class are divided according to the three families:
(a) Tathāgata family (Toh 494 and 495), two tantras centered on Vairocana and Acala respectively;
(b) Padma family, not represented here;
(c) Vajra family (Toh 496-501), centered on Vajrapāṇi.
Texts in this Section
The Tantra of the Complete Enlightenment of Vairocana
རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་མངོན་པར་རྫོགས་པར་བྱང་ཆུབ་པའི་རྒྱུད། · rnam par snang mdzad mngon par rdzogs par byang chub pa'i rgyud/
vairocanābhisambodhi
Summary
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Title variants
- mdo sde'i chos kyi rnam grangs/
- The Dharma Discourse Consisting in the Sūtra on the Enlightenment of Mahāvairocana
- mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhivikurvitādhiṣṭhānavaipulyasūtrendrarājanāmadharmaparyāya
- rnam par snang mdzad chen po mngon par rdzogs par byang chub pa rnam par sprul pa byin gyis rlob pa shin tu rgyas pa mdo sde dbang po'i rgyal po zhes bya ba'i chos kyi rnam grangs/
- mdo sde'i chos kyi rnam grangs/
- The Dharma Discourse Consisting in the Sūtra [on the Enlightenment of Mahāvairocana]
- mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhivikurvitādhiṣṭhāna-vaipulyasūtrendrarājadharmaparyāya
- 毘盧遮那現前圓滿證覺續
The Practice Described as the Taming
འདུལ་བར་གསུངས་པའི་རྟོག་པ། · 'dul bar gsungs pa'i rtog pa/
acalamahākrodharājasya sarvatathāgatasya balāparimitavīravinayasvākhyāto nāma kalpaḥ
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Title variants
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi khro bo'i rgyal po mi g.yo ba de'i stobs dpag tu med pa rtul phod pa 'dul bar gsungs pa zhes bya ba'i rtog pa/
- āryācalamahākrodharājasya sarvatathāgatasya balāparimitavīravinayasvākhyāto nāma kalpaḥ
The Vajrapāṇi Empowerment
ཕྱག་རྡོར་དབང་བསྐུར། · phyag rdor dbang bskur/
vajrapāṇyabhiṣekamahātantra
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- 'phags pa lag na rdo rje dbang bskur ba'i rgyud chen po/
- āryavajrapāṇyabhiṣekamahātantra
Dhāraṇī of the Eight Goddesses
ལྷ་མོ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་གཟུངས། · lha mo brgyad kyi gzungs/
aṣṭadevīdhāraṇī
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No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- 'phags pa lha mo brgyad kyi gzungs/
- āryāṣṭadevidhāraṇī
- The Dhāraṇī of the Eight Goddesses
- 'phags pa lha mo brgyad kyi gzungs/
- āryāṣṭadevīdhāraṇī
The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་གོས་སྔོན་པོ་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · bcom ldan ’das phyag na rdo rje gos sngon po can gyi rgyud
Bhagavannīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇitantra
Summary
In the Kangyur and Tengyur collections there are more than forty titles centered on the form of Vajrapāṇi known as the “Blue-Clad One,” a measure of this figure’s great popularity in both India and Tibet. This text, The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi, is a scripture that belongs to the Conduct tantra (Caryātantra) class, the third of the four categories used by the Tibetans to organize their tantric canon. It introduces the practice of Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi, while also providing the practitioner with a number of rituals directed at suppressing, subduing, or eliminating ritual targets.
Title variants
- བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་གོས་སྔོན་པོ་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།
- bcom ldan ’das phyag na rdo rje gos sngon po can gyi rgyud ces bya ba
- The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi
- Bhagavannīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇitantranāma
The Tantra of Blue-clad Vajrapāṇi Vajrapātāla
ལག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་གོས་སྔོན་པོ་ཅན་རྡོ་རྗེ་ས་འོག་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད། · lag na rdo rje gos sngon po can rdo rje sa 'og kyi rgyud/
vajrapāṇinīlāmbaradharavajrapātālatantra
Summary
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- 'phags pa lag na rdo rje gos sngon po can rdo rje sa 'og ces bya ba'i rgyud/
- āryavajrapāṇinīlāmbaradharavajrapātālanāmatantra
Moving Through the Three Vajra Levels, a Sovereign Practice
རྡོ་རྗེ་ས་གསུམ་དུ་རྒྱུ་བའི་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · rdo rje sa gsum du rgyu ba'i rtog pa'i rgyal po/
vajrabhūmitricaraṇarājakalpa
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Title variants
- rdo rje sa gsum du rgyu ba zhes bya ba'i rtog pa'i rgyal po/
- vajrabhūmitricaraṇarājakalpanāma
Blue-clad Vajrapāṇi, a Tantra to Tame the Three Worlds
ཕྱག་རྡོར་འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་འདུལ་རྒྱུད། · phyag rdor 'jig rten gsum 'dul rgyud/
vajrapāṇinīlāmbaradharatrilokavinayatantra
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Title variants
- 'phags pa lag na rdo rje gos sngon po can zhes bya ba'i 'jig rten gsum 'dul ba'i rgyud/
- āryavajrapāṇinīlāmbaradharatrilokavinayanāmatantra