Texts of Tibetan Buddhism, including tantras of the highest yoga class and guides to the path of liberation. They are studied, recited and practiced in the monastic and yogic lineages of Tibet. They are used in teaching, initiation and meditation, and the lineages that hold them transmit explanation along with the text itself. Members placed here so far include The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Hevajra Tantra, Guhyasamaja Tantra.
All Tibetan Buddhist Texts (Esoteric Texts)
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The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Wikipedia)
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The Jewel Ornament of Liberation or Ornament of Precious Liberation (Tibetan: དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན, Wylie: dam chos yid bzhin nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan) is a key text in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism that is said to capture the essence of both the Kadampa and Kagyüpa lineages of Mahayana teachings.
Hevajra
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Hevajra (Sanskrit: हेवज्र; Tibetan: ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng;) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings) in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism.
Guhyasamāja Tantra (Wikipedia)
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In its fullest form, it consists of seventeen chapters, though a separate "explanatory tantra" (vyākhyātantra) known as the Later Tantra (Sanskrit: गुह्यसमाज उत्तरातंत्र, romanized: Guhyasamāja Uttaratantra; Tibetan: རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མ, Wylie: rgyud phyi ma), Toh 443, is sometimes considered to be its eighteenth chapter.
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