After generating bodhicitta in tantra and receiving an empowerment, a person enters the door to tantric practice.

Persons who intend to receive or have already received an empowerment must study the fourteen root tantric vows; persons who have never received and do not plan to take an empowerment sh...

Only those who have received the inner tantra empowerment should read this text.   INTRODUCTION The fourteen root tantric vows and the e...

As mentioned already, the advantage of tantric vows is that the vows can be restored repeatedly after they are broken. And it is not necessary to have a master present to restore the vows; it ca...

Alikākāravāda (False Aspectarians)—One of the two systems of Yogācāra. A debate about the reality of mental appearances led to the subdivision of Yogācāra. According to Alikākār...