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Yamantaka Sadhana: Outline

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Saturday, 19 June 2010 14:06

This is a general outline of the Single-Deity Vajrabhairava Sadhana by topics:

General Preliminaries

- Refuge and Generating Bodhichitta

- Guru Yoga

- Review of the Graduated Path

- Supplication to the Lineage Gurus

Specific Preliminaries

- Instantaneous Self-generation- Consecrating the Inner Offering

- Consecrating the Preliminary Sense Offerings to the Direction Protectors

- Consecrating the Torma Offering to the Direction Protectors

- Invocation of and Offering of the Torma, Sense and Inner Offerings to the Direction

Protectors

- Praise and Exhortation

- Requesting Forbearance

- Requesting to Depart

- Consecration of the Sense Offerings for Self-generation

- Meditational recitation of Vajrasattva

Actual Session

- Inviting the Field of Merit

- Seven Limb Practice:

Prostrating, Offering, Confessing, Rejoicing, Dedication, Refuge and Generating Aspiring

and Engaging Bodhichitta

- Tantric Vows

- Four Immeasurables

- Taking Death as the Path of the Truth Body

- Generation of the Common Protection Wheel

- Generation of the Uncommon Protection Wheel of the Ten Wrathful Deities

- Taking the Intermediate State as the Path of the Enjoyment Body

- Taking Birth as the Path of the Emanation Body

- Description of Vajrabhairava

- Blessing of the Sources, Body, Speech and Mind

- Meditating on the Triple Stack Heroic Minds

- Inviting the Wisdom Deities

- Inviting the Empowering Deities

- Initiating and Sealing by the Empowering Deities

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Yamantaka Sadhana: Outline

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Saturday, 19 June 2010 14:06

- Inner Offering to the Gurus of the Lineage, the Yidams, Protectors and So Forth

- Extensive Praise

- Brief Praise

- Minding the Symbolism

- Consecrating the Rosary- Mantra Recitation

- Making Offerings and Praise

Conclusion of the Session

- Consecration of the Torma Offerings to Yamantaka and the Direction Protectors, who are

Respectively the Transcendental and Worldly Deities, as well as to Karmayama

- Offerings and Praise to Yamantaka

- Visualization of the Guests for the Torma

- Offerings and Praise to the Direction Protectors- Generation of Karmayama

- Initiating, Sealing, Binding to Commitment and Offering

- Exhorting to Activities

- Thanksgiving Offering and Praise

- Extensive Prayer

- Short Prayer

- Requesting Forbearance

- Dissolution

- Extensive Verses of Auspiciousness

- Dedication

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