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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: Google Books: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems1) Isolated Mind refers to one of the 鈥�Five Stages鈥� (in Tibetan: rim lnga) which represent the completion-stage phases described by the Guhyasam膩ja Tantric tradition.鈥擜ccordingly, [regarding the expanse class of Dzokchen]: This teaching places great importance on the clear light, so it is a bit like the new schools鈥� teaching of the Five Stages [e.g., isolated mind]; its meaning is very different, however. In the teaching of the Five Stages, through the technique by which the Five Winds are bound, you apprehend in its entirety the empty visualized object of meditation, and then, through its subsequent dissolution, you clarify it in the clear light; therefore, there is deliberate activity involved.
2) Isolated mind (in Tibetan: sems dben; Sanskrit: cittaviveka) 鈥� The second of the five stages of completion-stage practice in the Guhyasam膩ja tantra tradition Following upon isolated speech, in which energies are brought into the central channel of the subtle body, this stage involves mimicry of the death process, in which energies are brought to the heart center, then the indestructible drop within it; there, conceptuality is stilled, or 鈥渋solated.鈥� On the basis of isolated mind, one creates an impure illusory body, attains clear-light realization of the nature of reality, and attains the final union of buddhahood
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha鈥檚 words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (惫补箩谤补测腻苍补) are collected indepently.
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Partial matches: Isolated, Mind.
Full-text: sems dben, Cittaviveka, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Retro-cognition, Telepathy, Physical power, Five stages, Supernatural power.
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The Great Chariot (by Longchenpa)
Part 1b.1f - How consciousness dissolves < [B. The extensive explanation of the nature of karma]
Part 1b.1j - How the cause of liberation is produced < [B. The extensive explanation of the nature of karma]