Mahayoga
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Practice
- Mahāyoga textual tradition
- Eighteen great tantras of Mahāyoga
- Root tantras
- Practice tantras
- Activity Tantras
- Last Tantras that complete whatever is incomplete
- Eight Herukas of the Nyingma Mahāyoga
- Diffusion
- References
- External links
Mahāyoga (Sanskrit for "great yoga") is the designation of the first of the three Inner Tantras according to the ninefold division of practice used by the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Mahāyoga is held to emphasise the generation stage (or "development stage") of Tantra, where the succeeding two yana, anuyoga and atiyoga, emphasise the completion stage and the synthesis or transcendence of the two, respectively.
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