Yoga sadhana

Incomplete with folio order scrambled. CompareIOL Tib J 448/1, which picks up on6r.5of the present item. Also,IOL Tib J 447/1is an extensive commentary on thissādhana. This item's folios should be read in the following order: [2]-[missing]-[6]-[5]-[4]-[3]-[10] (using the IOL page numbers this is equivalent to 38-[missing]-42-41-40-39-46). The missing section is represented in the commentary atIOL Tib J 447/1, Rf.2r.5-Rf.4v.3. Unfortunately,IOL Tib J 448/1is missing the same section.

The item is asādhanaassociated with the famousYoga tantrawork,Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha(112). In the first section (1r.2), it is made explicit that for the purposes of this particular ritual, thevajrafamily occupies the central position in the maṇḍala, instead ofVairocanaof thetathāgatafamily which is ordinarily central in theVajradhātu maṇḍala. The buddha mentioned in this context isTrailokyavijaya(Khams gsum las rnam par rgyal ba), which is the formVajrapāṇitakes on after subjugatingMaheśvarain theSarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha. (On this myth, see148-152.) Note that both in section two of theSarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgrahaand in the present manual,Trailokyavijayais associated with the buddhaHūṃkara(Tib.Rdo rje hung zhes pa). Having professed an emphasis on the vajra family, however, the present ritual remains somewhat general, allowing the reader to alter it as needed for the other deities of the tantra. For this reason, as the title implies, the present ritual can be understood to derive generally from the first section of theSarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha, which describes theVajradhātu maṇḍalain its basic form withVairocanain the middle. As the commentary (IOL Tib J 447/1, Rf.13r.9-13v.3) explains, this basicmaṇḍalacan then be altered according to which of the four main sections of the root tantra one wishes to practice. The ritual described in the present item closely mirrors that found in Item 2 of the present manuscript, and many of the ritual sections in the present item can be understood better by comparison with Item 2.

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Yoga sadhana

Incomplete. Many of the missing folios are provided by300. Taken together, the manual should be read in the following order: [First folios missing] -- [3005-9] -- [3001-4] -- [8] -- [1] -- [folio missing] -- [9]. The remaining folio7r(IOL number 43) remains unidentified; the folio following it is missing, and it may come from the beginning of the manual (see Item 1), where a number of folios are clearly missing. Like thesādhanain item 1, this manual is based on theSarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha, though it seems even more strongly focused on the buddha of the vajra family, as implied by its title. The present work may be understood as focused on the second section of the root tantra, which relates to the deitiesTrailokyavijayaandHūṃkara.

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