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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Tsongkhapa and the Lineage of the Six Yogas | |
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| The Buddhist Tantric Tradition in India | |
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| Naropa | |
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| The Legacy of the Six Yogas | |
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| The Six Yogas, Three Bardo States, and Nine Blendings | |
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| Lama Tsongkhapa's A Book of Three Inspirations | |
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| Section One of Tsongkhapa's Text | |
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| The Preliminary Trainings Associated with the General Mahayana | |
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| The General Tantric Preliminaries | |
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| The Tantric Preliminaries Unique to the Six Yogas System | |
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| The Generation Stage Yogas | |
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| Introduction to the Nature of the Mind | |
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| Introduction to the Nature of the Body | |
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| The Physical Exercises and Meditations upon the Empty Shell Body | |
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| Section Two of Tsongkhapa's Text | |
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| The Inner Heat Yoga | |
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| Karmamudra | |
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| The Illusory Body Yoga | |
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| The Bardo Yoga | |
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| The Clear Light Yoga | |
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| The Consciousness Transference Yoga | |
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| The Forceful Projection Yoga | |
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| Concluding Notes | |
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| The Six Yogas of Naropa in English Translation | |
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| The Seventh Dalai Lama's Prayer to the Six Yogas Lineage | |
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| Some Historical Lineage Considerations | |
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| A Parting Perspective on Tsongkhapa the Great | |
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| A Book of Three Inspirations: A Treatise on the Stages of Training in the Profound Path of Naro's Six Dharmas | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The preliminary meditations, which build the foundations of this path | |
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| The preliminaries that are general meditations derived from the common Mahayana teachings | |
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| Why it is necessary for training in this tradition to be preceded by training in the practices of the common Mahayana | |
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| The actual stages of training the mind in that path | |
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| The preliminaries that belong exclusively to the highest yoga tantra tradition | |
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| The general Vajrayana preliminaries | |
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| Why it is necessary to receive the complete empowerments | |
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| Why it is necessary to observe the tantric precepts | |
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| The preliminaries emphasized in this Naropa system | |
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| Having established the preliminaries, how to train in the actual tantric meditations | |
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| The meditations of the generation stage yogas | |
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| The meditations of the completion stage yogas | |
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| The nature of the basis | |
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| The nature of the mind | |
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| The nature of the body | |
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| The explanation of the stages of traversing the path | |
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| The meditations upon the physical exercises, together with the meditation upon the body as empty | |
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| The meditations on the physical exercises | |
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| The meditations on the body as an empty shell | |
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| The stages of meditating upon the actual path | |
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| The manner of structuring the path | |
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| The stages of being guided on the path | |
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| The manner of actualizing the results | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Vajrasattva Meditation and Mantra Recitation | |
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| Establishing Blessing Powers by Meditating upon Guru Yoga | |
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| Glossary: Sanskrit and Tibetan Names and Terms | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |