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'''Vajra Yogini''' ([[rdo rje rnal 'byor ma]]). A [[semiwrathful yidam]]. She is red, with one face and two arms, young and beautiful but enraged and wearing ornaments of human bones. She represents the transformation of ignorance and passion into [[shunyata]] and compassion.  
'''Mind-Only''' ([[sems tsam pa]]), [[Chittamatra]]. A Mahayana school of Buddhist philosophy propagated by the great master [[Asanga]] and his followers. Founded on the [[Lankavatara Sutra]] and other scriptures, its main premise is that all phenomena are only mind, i.e. mental perceptions that appear within the [[all-ground consciousness]] due to [[habitual tendencies]]. Positively, this view relinquishes the fixation on a solid reality. Negatively, there is still clinging to a truly existing 'mind' within which everything takes place.


In India there were many Vajra Yogini traditions, only few were transmitted to Tibet.
*[[Four Schools of Buddhist philosophy]]
 
In the [[Kagyu tradition]], her sadhana is often given as the students's entry into [[Anuttarayoga]] practice. In this tradition Vajrayogin is also called Vajravarahi.
 
The Sakya tradition has a special Vajrayogini lineage going back to Naropa, who only transmitted this lineage to the Phamtinka brothers, and from them it was transmitted to the [[Sakya]] lineage in Tibet.
 
The Gelug tradition received the lineage from the [[Sakya]] lineage, and it's now a separate lineage.


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Latest revision as of 23:52, 21 December 2005

Mind-Only (sems tsam pa), Chittamatra. A Mahayana school of Buddhist philosophy propagated by the great master Asanga and his followers. Founded on the Lankavatara Sutra and other scriptures, its main premise is that all phenomena are only mind, i.e. mental perceptions that appear within the all-ground consciousness due to habitual tendencies. Positively, this view relinquishes the fixation on a solid reality. Negatively, there is still clinging to a truly existing 'mind' within which everything takes place.

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