bskyed rim

development process - bskyed rim, utpattikrama: this is one of those terms that seems to have become stuck in modern translations, and is often seen translated as generation stage, or even, phase. It is the whole meditation from the dissolution into emptiness to the development of the full image of the maṇḍala complete with all its deities that is named in Sanskrit, utpattikrama. Each of the steps, or stages, within this process purifies some aspect of the process of gestation and life, and the term stage is quite inappropriate for the whole process. On the other hand, the term stage would be suitable for the steps involved: the Oxford English Dictionary gives among its definitions of stage: "Division of a journey or process", also "a step in a process" [TSD]

creation/ developing stage [IW]

creation/ developing stage [the elaborate phase of creative visualization according to the tantra vehicles, utpattikrama, purifying the habitual patterns of the four birthplaces yoga of meditating on ordinary sight, sound, and awareness and the deities, mantra, and wisdom] [IW]

creation/developing stage [the elaborate phase of creative visualization according to the tantra vehicles, utpattikrama, purifying the habitual patterns of the four birthplaces yoga of meditatingon ordinary sight, sound, and awareness and the desities, mantra, and wisdom] [IW]

utpattikrama, developing stage, stage of generation, development stage, gradual development of ideas, powers of an occult nature, generation phase, phase of creation, phase of development, generation process, steps of production, development stage, visualization process [JV]

stage of development [RB]

development stage; [expl., acc. to Anu Yoga, 104; acc. to Ati Yoga, 105; Light of Wisdom, Vol. 2] [RY]

1) development stage, utpattikrama; stage of development; generation stage / process, steps of production, visualization process, stage of generation, creation phase, generative phase, visualizing phase, creation stage. 2) visualization [RY]

utpattikrama, developing stage, stage of generation, gradual development of ideas, powers of an occult nature, generation phase, phase of creation, phase of development, generation process, steps of production, development stage, visualization process, creation stage [JV]