Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism
"Through the practice of Vajrayana Buddhism, may the radiant flower of
Tibetan Culture be preserved for the benefit of all beings."
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Monday, April 30
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested donation:$15 public, $12 members
Prerequisite: Students attending this class must have had a Highest Yoga Tantra initiation for any deity where you visualize yourself as the deity.
 
This prerequisite means:

[1] Students attending this class will have to have had either a major mandala empowerment (a Wangkur) into one of the major Tantras such as Hevajra, Kalachakra, Yamantaka, Guhyagarbha, Guhyasamaja, etc, OR have had an initiation of the blessings of body, speech and mind (i.e., a jenang) into any Highest Yoga deity practice with a sadhana where you specifically visualize yourself as the deity: such as Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezi), Manjushri, Vajrapani, Kurukulle, Tara or any of the many others.   

[2] The student should be also doing the sadhana practice for any of those deities.  Merely attending a mandala empowerment or an initiation does not qualify.  You should be actually doing the practice regularly. 

 

The purpose of sadhana practice in Highest Yoga Tantra in which you visualize yourself as that deity is to develop in your own mind and in your life the qualities of the deity you are practicing, and in doing so, to purify your own negative qualities and past negative karma. Regardless of which deity you practice, all sadhanas have a similar structure and pattern. Each phase of the sadhana has a particular purpose and function. In this class we will discuss and try to understand the process in which we are involved when we do these practices and the general symbolic structure of Highest Yoga sadhanas so that our practice may become more effective.

The class will be based on teachings found in Creation and Completion – Essential Points of Tantric Meditation by Jamgon Kontrul (trans. by Sarah Harding) and Deity, Mantra and Wisdom – Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra by Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche and Getse Mahapandita (trans. by Dharmacakra Translation Committee).

Ken Hockett is one of the senior Dharma students at Sakya. After much reading and study he took refuge before Sakya Dagchen Rinpoche in 1977. His principle interest is in the Mind Training methods and has been teaching these at Sakya Monastery for the past 10+ years. Having received teachings and initiations from Lamas of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, his main teachers are of the Sakya and Nyingma traditions. He has also produced several of the practice texts used at Sakya Monastery.


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