Vajrasattva Meditation: An Illustrated Guide

by Yeshe Phuntsok

Overview

Walk step by step through the stages of this tantric ritual of purification with inspired commentary and forty full-color illustrations.

The force of our past actions makes it hard to attain our goals, including success in meditation. And so Buddhism has developed methods for purifying our past, clearing the obstacles to success and fulfillment. One of the most popular methods for karmic housekeeping, one common to all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, is the preparatory practice of visualizing the buddha Vajrasattva and reciting his hundred-syllable mantra. It is considered an essential foundation for the success of spiritual endeavor.
The practice of Vajrasattva is often the first experience practitioners have of trying to perform tantric ritual. Combining prayers, visualizations, mantra recitations, and multiple styles of meditation, it can be hard for those who did not grow up in the tradition to know how to proceed. This friendly volume by a young Tibetan lama with many followers in China lays out the practice step by step accompanied by sixty color illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614291886
Publisher:	Wisdom Publications MA
Publication date:	03/03/2015
Edition description:	Illustrate
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Khenpo Yeshe Phuntsok was born in China's Sichuan province in 1971 and educated in both Chinese and Tibetan. In 1986, he entered Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, modern Tibet's most dynamic and fastest-growing Buddhist academy, to study with its renowned founder, Jikme Phuntsok Rinpoche. In 1996, he became a khenpo, a senior teacher, and was assigned to teach Rinpoche's Chinese students. Since then has become a major figure in the revival of Buddhism among Chinese people worldwide. This is his first book in English. He lives in Serthar, China.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction 1

The Tantric Approach 3

Why We Need Purification 7

How Purification Works 13

Why Vajrasattva Is the Buddha of Purification 19

What We Accomplish through Vajrasattva Practice 25

The Main Practice 31

Preparing for Practice 33

Visualizing Vajrasattva: The Power of Reliance 42

Supplicating Vajrasattva: The Power of Regret 62

Promising Vajrasattva: The Power of Resolve 65

Reciting the Mantra: The Power of the Remedy 66

Receiving Blessings and Empowerments 94

The Short Mantra 104

Dissolving the Visualization 122

Concluding 134

Purifying Specific Misdeeds Step by Step 137

Notes 181

About Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche 183

About the Author 186