檢視 Mahayoga 的原始碼

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'''Mahayoga''' (Skt. ''mahāyoga''; Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོ་, ''naljor chenpö'', [[Wyl.]] ''rnal 'byor chen po'') — the first of the [[three yanas of powerful transformative methods]] according to the [[nine yanas|nine yana]] classification of the [[Nyingma]] school. 

Mahayoga focuses mainly on the [[development stage]] (Tib. ''kyérim''), and emphasizes the clarity and precision of visualization as [[skilful means]]. 
  
==Overview Given by [[Alak Zenkar Rinpoche]]<ref>{{LH|tibetan-masters/alak-zenkar/nine-yanas|''A Brief Presentation of the Nine Yanas'' by Alak Zenkar Rinpoche}}</ref>==
The vehicle of '''mahayoga''', or ‘great yoga,’ is so-called because it is superior to ordinary [[yoga tantra]] since all phenomena are realized to be a magical display in which appearance and [[emptiness]] are indivisible.

===Entry Point===
Once one’s mind has been matured through receiving the [[ten outer benefiting empowerments]], the [[five inner enabling empowerments]] and the [[three secret profound empowerments]]<ref>When relating to the [[four empowerments]]: the benefiting and enabling empowerments correspond to the vase empowerment, and the three secret profound empowerments to the last three of the four empowerments. Source: [[Ju Mipham Jampal Gyepa'i Dorje]], ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]'', trans. by Lama Chönam and Sangye Khandro of the Light of Berotsana Translation Group (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2010), pages 211-213.</ref>, one keeps the [[samaya]]s as they are described in the texts.

===View===
By means of extraordinary lines of reasoning, one establishes and then realizes the indivisibility of the [two] higher levels of reality, according to which the cause for the appearance of the essential nature, the [[seven riches of the absolute]], is spontaneously present within the pure awareness that is beyond conceptual elaboration, and all relative phenomena naturally appear as the [[mandala]] of [[deities of the three seats]].
 
===Meditation===
When it comes to the path and the practice of meditation, the main emphasis is on the [[generation stage]]. In the practice of generation stage yoga, one sets up the practice through the [[three samadhis]], ensures that the three of purifying, perfecting and ripening are complete within the visualization, and, once the visualization is complete, seals it with the instruction on the [[four nails]] securing the life-force. In the practice of the [[completion stage]] yoga, one activates the vital points of the [[vajra body]], its subtle energies, essences, luminosity and so on.

===Conduct===
One maintains elaborate, unelaborate and extremely unelaborate conduct.
 
===Results===
In the short term one reaches the [[four vidyadhara levels]], which are the results belonging to the path, and finally one gains the ultimate fruition, and reaches the level of the [[Vajradhara]] of unity.<ref>‘Unity’ here means the unity of [[dharmakaya]] and [[rupakaya]].</ref>

==Subdivisions==
{{:Two divisions of Mahayoga}}
Mahayoga can also be divided into three classes:
*Maha of Maha (Wyl. ''maha'i maha'')
*Anu of Maha 
*Ati of Maha

==Texts of the Mahayoga==
*The tantra class contains [[Eighteen tantras of Mahayoga|eighteen tantras]], of which the ''[[Guhyagarbha Tantra]]'' is the root tantra. ([[Nyingma Gyübum]] Dergé ed. vols. 9-14, Tingkyé ed. vols. 14-19)
*The sadhana class has five main sections, corresponding to the five wisdom deities of the [[Kagyé]], to which three sections corresponding to the three semi-worldly or worldly deities of the Kagyé are added. (Dergé ed. vols. 15-24, Tingkyé ed. vols. 20-33) 
*In addition, for the sadhana class, volumes 31 and 32 of the Tingkyé edition of the Nyingma Gyübum respectively contain the general tantras (Wyl. ''spyi rgyud'') and the particular tantras (Wyl. ''sgos rgyud'') associated with the original Indian terma recension of the ''Tantra of the Gathering of the Sugatas of the Kagyé'' (Wyl. ''sgrub chen bka' brgyad dbe 'dus kyi rgyud''), from which the later Tibetan terma cycles of the Kagyé derive.<ref>Source: Gyurme Dorje, ''Guhyagarbha Tantra: Introduction'', PhD.</ref>

==The Lineage of the Tantra Class of Mahayoga==
The lineage of these teachings starts in the [[Akanishtha]] heaven with the [[mind direct transmission]] of the Primordial [[Buddha Samantabhadra]] to the [[buddhas of the five families]] and [[sambhogakaya]] buddhas and bodhisattvas of their retinue such as the [[lords of the three families]]. 

The lineage then continued through the sign transmission of the vidyadharas with [[Avalokiteshvara]] giving these teachings to the [[naga]]s, [[Manjushri]] to the [[gods]] and [[Vajrapani]] to the [[yaksha]]s. Vajrapani also taught the human Licchavi Vimalakirti (Wyl. ''li tsa ba dri med grags pa'')—one of the [[Five Excellent Ones of Sublime Nobility]]—at the summit of [[Mount Malaya]].<ref>Based on a teaching of [[Khenpo Namdrol]], 6 January 2012.</ref>

A central figure in the transmission of the Mahayoga teachings in our human world was [[King Dza]] who found on the roof of his palace the [[eighteen tantras of Mahayoga]] and a statue of Vajrapani.<ref>According to [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], King Dza was born 28 years after the [[parinirvana]] of the Buddha. According to [[Patrul Rinpoche]], King Dza had his visions 28 years after the [[parinirvana]] of the Buddha.</ref> After praying to Vajrapani, he was able to understand the chapter known as ''The Vision of Vajrasattva''. He practised for six months, using that chapter and the statue of Vajrapani as the support for his meditation. He then had a vision of [[Vajrasattva]], who blessed him so that he understood perfectly the meaning of all the tantras he received.<ref>Based on the [[Kunzang Lamé Shyalung]] and teachings from [[Khenpo Namdrol]].</ref> 
[[Image:Jnanakumara.JPG|thumb|250px|[[Nyak Jñanakumara]]]]
King Dza also received the oral transmission of these teachings from the Licchavi Vimalakirti. The lineage was then passed on to the great siddha [[Kukkuraja]], and then via [[Buddhaguhya]] to [[Vimalamitra]] and [[Padmasambhava]], who taught them to their Tibetan disciples.<ref>Source: [[Sogyal Rinpoche]], ''[[Dzogchen & Padmasambhava]]''.</ref> 

[[Nyak Jñanakumara]] received the transmission of the Mahayoga teachings from both [[Vimalamitra]] and Guru Rinpoche; he collaborated in the translation of [[tantra]]s of the ''[[Web of Magical Illusion]]'' and thus played an important role in the early transmission of the mahayoga lineage.

Alongside this long [[kama]] lineage is also the short [[terma]] lineage of Guru Rinpoche. Mahayoga teachings and sadhanas related to the [[Guhyagarbha Tantra]] have, for example, been revealed in the [[terma]]s of [[Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa]] and [[Khenpo Jikme Phuntsok]].<ref>Based on a teaching of [[Khenpo Namdrol]], 6 January 2012.</ref>

An extensive chronological list of lineage holders of the Mahayoga, from [[Buddha Samantabhadra]] to the present day, can be found in [[Tulku Thondup]]'s works. ''(see reference below)''

==Notes==
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==Further Reading==
*[[Jamgön Kongtrul]], ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra'', translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), Ch. 18 ''Mahayoga''.
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''Masters of Meditation and Miracles'', edited by Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, 1999), pages 23-28.

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