Anyone who has read more than a few books on Tibetan Buddhism will have encountered references to the Six Yogas of Naropa. These six - inner heat, illusory body, clear light, consciousness transference, forceful projection, & bardo yoga - represent one of the most poplular Tibetan Buddhist presentations of yogic technology. Given by the Indian sage Naropa to Marpa the Translator, these teachings gradually pervaded thousands of monasteries and hermitages throughout the Tibetan cultural region. Tsongkhapa's discussion of the Six Yogas is regarded as one of the finest on the subject to come out of Tibet. His treatise has served as the fundamental guide to the system as practiced in more than three thousand Gelukpa monasteries, nunneries and hermitages across Central Asia over the past five and half centuries.
Glenn H. Mullin's study of the history, substance, and philosophical legacy of the Six Yogas of naropa, together with his translation of Tsongkhapa's treatise, provides an authoritative guide to this tradition.

Six Yogas of Naropa, Glenn Mullin, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 276 pages, $34.95

Glenn H. Mullin lived in the Himalayas from 1972 to 1984, where he trained in tantric Buddhism under numerous Tibetan masters. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Glenn, an internationally renowned author and lectureron things tibetan, lived and studied in India (Dhataramsala and Nepal) for 12 years and has beeninvolved in many film and TV projects promoting T ibetan art and culture.

Preface	11
Introduction	19
Tsongkhapa and the Lineage of the Six Yogas	19
The Buddhist Tantric Tradition in India	24
Naropa	26
The Legacy of the Six Yogas	29
The Six Yogas, Three Bardo States, and Nine Blendings	33
Lama Tsongkhapa's A Book of Three Inspirations	44
Section One of Tsongkhapa's Text	47
The Preliminary Trainings Associated with the General Mahayana	47
The General Tantric Preliminaries	49
The Tantric Preliminaries Unique to the Six Yogas System	51
The Generation Stage Yogas	52
Introduction to the Nature of the Mind	55
Introduction to the Nature of the Body	58
The Physical Exercises and Meditations upon the Empty Shell Body	60
Section Two of Tsongkhapa's Text	62
The Inner Heat Yoga	63
Karmamudra	69
The Illusory Body Yoga	73
The Bardo Yoga	78
The Clear Light Yoga	81
The Consciousness Transference Yoga	85
The Forceful Projection Yoga	87
Concluding Notes	89
The Six Yogas of Naropa in English Translation	90
The Seventh Dalai Lama's Prayer to the Six Yogas Lineage	95
Some Historical Lineage Considerations	99
A Parting Perspective on Tsongkhapa the Great	103
A Book of Three Inspirations: A Treatise on the Stages of Training in the Profound Path of Naro's Six Dharmas
Prologue	109
The preliminary meditations, which build the foundations of this path	111
The preliminaries that are general meditations derived from the common Mahayana teachings	111
Why it is necessary for training in this tradition to be preceded by training in the practices of the common Mahayana	111
The actual stages of training the mind in that path	113
The preliminaries that belong exclusively to the highest yoga tantra tradition	116
The general Vajrayana preliminaries	116
Why it is necessary to receive the complete empowerments	116
Why it is necessary to observe the tantric precepts	118
The preliminaries emphasized in this Naropa system	119
Having established the preliminaries, how to train in the actual tantric meditations	121
The meditations of the generation stage yogas	121
The meditations of the completion stage yogas	126
The nature of the basis	126
The nature of the mind	126
The nature of the body	131
The explanation of the stages of traversing the path	133
The meditations upon the physical exercises, together with the meditation upon the body as empty	133
The meditations on the physical exercises	133
The meditations on the body as an empty shell	136
The stages of meditating upon the actual path	137
The manner of structuring the path	137
The stages of being guided on the path	141
The manner of actualizing the results	221
Epilogue	223
Vajrasattva Meditation and Mantra Recitation	227
Establishing Blessing Powers by Meditating upon Guru Yoga	233
Glossary: Sanskrit and Tibetan Names and Terms	239
Notes	247
Bibliography	269