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Essay name: Hevajra Tantra (analytical study)

Author: Seung Ho Nam
Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies

This is an English study of the Hevajra Tantra: an ancient Sanskrit text that teaches the process of attaining Buddha-hood for removing the sufferings of all sentient beings. The Hevajratantra amplifies the views and methods found in the Guhyasamaja Tantra (one of the earliest extant Buddhist Tantras) dealing with Yoga and Mandalas.

Chapter 1 - Tantric Buddhism

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51 (of 63)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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ultimately the Truth Body of a Buddha.
Though a his path is long, it is more satisfying and beneficial both to
the practitioner and the sentient beings whose sufferings make them the
object of his compassion. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama the
Bodhisattva path is superior than that of an Arahat on the grounds a)
motivation, b) goal, c) level of understanding. A Boddhisattva has to
spend countless eons on the practice of the six perfections before he can
remove all obstructions to omniscience. Had he or she the qualifications
and adopted the Tantra path his achievement would have been quick.
Tantra is the quickest way to remove obstacles and obstructions to
omniscience. But it is a path which only a Boddhisattva with superior
intellect and immense compassion is eligible to tread. In Tantra
Bodhisattva practices Sūnyatā Yoga in union with Deity Yoga.
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5. Vajrayāna: A Fusion of Emptiness and Deity Yoga
In both the Sūtra and Mantra (or Tantra) Vehicles, Buddhahood is
attained through a union of method and wisdom. Method is the aspiration
to highest enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings, induced by
love and compassion. Wisdom is the cognition of emptiness.
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The union of method and wisdom also is based on the relationship -
between two types of objects, conventional truths and ultimate truths. All
phenomena-persons and other things are conventional truths. The
emptinesses of these objects are ultimate truths, so-called because,
unlike conventional truths, they do not falsely appear as inherently
existent to a consciousness that directly cognizes them. In both Sūtra
and Mantra the two truths are shown to be compatible; both teach that
an object and its emptiness are one entity and that an emptiness does
not in any way contradict or cancel out the conventional truth that is
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