| Contents: Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra (sngags rim chen mo): Critical Elucidation of the Key Instructions in All the Secret Stages of the Path of the Victorious Univeral Lord, Great Vajradhara, Chapters XI-XII - The Creation Stage by Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa |
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Series Editor's/Editor's Preface
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Author's Acknowledgements
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| Abbreviations, Sigla, and Typographical Conventions |
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Tools & Resources
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Part One: Introduction
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Overview
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Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Background: Texts and Traditions
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The Indian Buddhist Renaissance Culture
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Tsong Khapa and Fourteenth Century Tibet
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Tsong Khapa's Principal Writings: The LRC and the NRC
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Tsong Khapa on the Critical Use of Texts
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Indian Tantric Exegetical Systems of the Arya and Jnanapada Traditions
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The Arya Exegetical School
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The Jnanapada Exegetical School
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Differences Between the Arya and Jnanapada Exegetical Schools
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Overview of Esoteric Buddhism
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Deity Yoga: The Defining Characteristic of the Mantra Vehicle
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Deity Yoga Defined and Further Elaborated
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Deity Yoga in the Four Classes of Tantra
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Subtler Body-Mind Bases, Paths, and Fruits in Unexcelled Yoga Tantra
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The Homological Relationship Between Base, Path, and Fruit
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How Vivid Pure Perception is Made Real
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- Artificial and Non-artificial Development; Interdependent (Homologous) Signifiers and Signified Bases
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- The Need for Creation Stage Yogas: Setting up the Distinctive Relativities for the Perfection Stage Yogas
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- How the Lower Tantras "Get at" Unexcelled Yoga Tantra
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| The Structure and Content of the NRC |
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Chapters I-XIV: The Chapter Titles of the NRC
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Chapters V-XIV (Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Sections): Overview of the Topical Outline
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Chapter XI: Overview of the Topical Outline and Subject Matter
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Chapter XI: Selected Key Issues, Arguments, and Themes
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Prefatory Comments
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Rejecting that Either of the Two Stages Alone is Sufficient
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Chapter XII: Overview of the Topical Outline and Subject Matter
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Chapter XII: Selected Key Issues, Arguments, and Themes
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Eliminating the Pride and Perception of Ordinariness
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Developing Stable Vivid Perception
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Alternate Creation Stage Schemas
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Meditation on Emptiness and the "Mandala-Mind" in the Creation Stage
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The Preliminaries of Accumulating Merit and Intuition, and of Creating the Defense Perimeter
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The Actual Creation Stage Yoga with its Components [Focus on Homologies Between Bases, Path, and Fruition]
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- Creation of the Measureless Mansion Habitat
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- Homologies Involved in Creating the Deity Inhabitants through the Five Manifest enlightenments
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- Summary Regarding Homologies Between Bass, Paths, and Fruits
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- Components Completing this Yoga
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Follow-up Practices: Practices to be Done Between Sessions; and How to Make Those Yogas Magnificent
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- Components Completing this Yoga
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Part Two: Annotated English Translation
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| Chapter XI: The Need to Accomplish Enlightenment Trough the Integration of the Two Stages |
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| Chapter XII: The Creation Stage |
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Appendixes
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| Appendix I: English Topical Outline (sa bead) of Chapters XI-XII of Tsong Khapa's Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra |
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| Appendix II: Tibetan Topical Outline (sa bead) of Chapters XI-XII of Tsong Khapa's Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra |
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| Appendix III: Analysis of the Tantric Section of the Derge Kangyur Correlated to Derge Tengyur Exegesis |
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Glossary
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| English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Glossary |
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Selected Bibliographies
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| Canonical Tibetan Texts (Kangyur and Tengyur) Sorted by English Title (Full Citatations) |
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| Canonical Tibetan Texts (Kangyur and Tengyur) Sorted by Tohoku Number (English Title Only) |
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| Indigenous Tibetan Texts |
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| Dictionaries and Reference Works |
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| Modern Sources |
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Indexes
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| Index of Canonical Texts Cited |
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| Index of Canonical Authors Cited |
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General index
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