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'''Nine Yanas''' ([[Wyl.]] ''theg pa dgu'') or '''nine successive vehicles''' (Wyl. ''theg pa rim pa dgu'') — within the [[Nyingma]] tradition, the full spectrum of spiritual paths is divided into nine [[yana]]s, a system of practice bringing together all the approaches of the Buddha’s teaching into a single comprehensive [[path]] to [[enlightenment]]. | '''Nine Yanas''' (Tib. ཐེག་པ་དགུ, ''tekpa gu'', [[Wyl.]] ''theg pa dgu'') or '''nine successive vehicles''' (Tib. ཐེག་པ་རིམ་པ་དགུ་, ''tekpa rimpa gu'', Wyl. ''theg pa rim pa dgu'') — within the [[Nyingma]] tradition, the full spectrum of spiritual paths is divided into nine [[yana]]s, a system of practice bringing together all the approaches of the Buddha’s teaching into a single comprehensive [[path]] to [[enlightenment]]. | ||
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|colspan="3" align="center"|the [[three outer yanas leading from the origin]],<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the '''outer''' vehicle of leading from the origin [of suffering] and the [[three pitakas]] of characteristics | |colspan="3" align="center"|the [[three outer yanas leading from the origin]],<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the '''outer''' vehicle of leading from the origin [of suffering] and the [[three pitakas]] of characteristics | ||
|colspan="3" align="center"|the [[three yanas of vedic asceticism]],<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the '''inner''' vehicle of Vedic asceticism and the [[three outer classes of tantra]] | |colspan="3" align="center"|the [[three yanas of vedic asceticism]],<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the '''inner''' vehicle of Vedic asceticism and the [[three outer classes of tantra]] | ||
|colspan="3" align="center"|the [[three yanas of powerful transformative methods]],<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the '''secret''' vehicle of powerful transformative methods and the [[inner tantras|three inner classes of tantra]] | |colspan="3" align="center"|the [[three yanas of powerful transformative methods]],<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the '''secret''' vehicle of powerful transformative methods and the [[three inner tantras|three inner classes of tantra]] | ||
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[basic vehicle]] | |colspan="2" align="center"|[[basic vehicle]] | ||
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|colspan="6" align="center"|[[vajrayana]]<ref>The vajrayana is not a separate vehicle from mahayana, but actually belongs within mahayana as a distinctive vehicle of [[skilful means]].</ref> | |colspan="6" align="center"|[[vajrayana]]<ref>The vajrayana is not a separate vehicle from mahayana, but actually belongs within mahayana as a distinctive vehicle of [[skilful means]].</ref> | ||
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|colspan="3" align="center"|path of renunciation | |colspan="3" align="center"|path of renunciation<ref>This division into four paths is mentioned in ''The Nine Yanas, from Dzogchen & Padmasambhava'', page 23.</ref> | ||
|colspan="2" align="center"|path of purification | |colspan="2" align="center"|path of purification | ||
|colspan="3" align="center"|path of transformation | |colspan="3" align="center"|path of transformation | ||
|colspan="1" align="center"|path of self-liberation<ref>Wyl. ''rang grol lam.</ref> | |colspan="1" align="center"|path of self-liberation<ref>Wyl. ''rang grol lam.</ref> | ||
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|align="center"|1. <br/>the [[shravaka yana]] | |align="center"|1. <br/>the [[shravaka yana]] <br/> [[ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|2. <br/>the [[pratyekabuddha yana]] | |align="center"|2. <br/>the [[pratyekabuddha yana]] <br/> [[རང་རྒྱལ་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|3. <br/>the [[bodhisattva yana]] | |align="center"|3. <br/>the [[bodhisattva yana]] <br/> [[བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|4. <br/>the yana of [[kriya tantra]] | |align="center"|4. <br/>the yana of [[kriya tantra]] <br/> [[བྱ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|5. <br/>the yana of [[charya tantra]] | |align="center"|5. <br/>the yana of [[charya tantra]] <br/> [[སྤྱོད་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|6. <br/>the yana of [[yoga tantra]] | |align="center"|6. <br/>the yana of [[yoga tantra]] <br/> [[རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|7. <br/>the yana of [[mahayoga]] | |align="center"|7. <br/>the yana of [[mahayoga]] <br/> [[རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|8. <br/>the yana of [[anuyoga]] | |align="center"|8. <br/>the yana of [[anuyoga]] <br/> [[རྗེས་སུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
|align="center"|9. <br/>the yana of [[atiyoga]] | |align="center"|9. <br/>the yana of [[atiyoga]] <br/> [[ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་]] | ||
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The nine yanas are referred to in the ''[[Kulayaraja Tantra]]'' (''Kunje Gyalpo'') and in the ''[[Düpa Do|General Sutra of the Gathering of All Intentions]]'' (''Düpa Do''), which is the central scripture of [[Anuyoga]]. | The nine yanas are referred to in the ''[[Kulayaraja Tantra]]'' (''Kunje Gyalpo'') and in the ''[[Düpa Do|General Sutra of the Gathering of All Intentions]]'' (''Düpa Do''), which is the central scripture of [[Anuyoga]]. | ||
==Notes== | ==Subdivision According to the [[three kayas|Three Kayas]]<ref>Based on [[Jokyab Rinpoche]], in [[Padmasambhava]] & [[Jamgön Kongtrul]], ''The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 1'' (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe, 1999), page 247-8.</ref>== | ||
*[[Dharmakaya]] teachings refer to the teachings of Atiyoga | |||
*[[Sambhogakaya]] teachings refer to the teachings of the three outer yanas, as well as Mahayoga and Anuyoga | |||
*[[Nirmanakaya]] teachings refer to the teachings of the three causal vehicles | |||
==Notes & References== | |||
<small><references/></small> | <small><references/></small> | ||
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha== | |||
*[[Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche]], [[Lerab Ling]], 17 September 2011 | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*[[Chögyam Trungpa]], ''The Lion's Roar: An Introduction to Tantra'', The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume Four (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003). | *[[Chögyam Trungpa]], ''The Lion's Roar: An Introduction to Tantra'', The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume Four (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003). | ||
*[[Dzogchen Ponlop]], ''Wild Awakening'' (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), 'Part 3: The Dzogchen Journey'. | *[[Dzogchen Ponlop]], ''Wild Awakening'' (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), 'Part 3: The Dzogchen Journey'. | ||
*Ron Garry, ''Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), 'Appendix 1: An Explanation of the Nine | *Ron Garry, ''Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), 'Appendix 1: An Explanation of the Nine Vehicles'. | ||
*S.G. Karmay, ''Origin and Early Development of the Tibetan Religious Traditions of the Great Perfection'' | |||
*[[Jamgön Kongtrul]], ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra'', translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), pages 306-347. | |||
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], | *[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], | ||
**''The Nine Yanas'', from ''Dzogchen & Padmasambhava'', republished in 2004. [http://www.zamstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13266 Available here] | **''The Nine Yanas'', from ''Dzogchen & Padmasambhava'', republished in 2004. [http://www.zamstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13266 Available here] | ||
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==External Link== | ==External Link== | ||
* | *{{LH|tibetan-masters/alak-zenkar/nine-yanas|''A Brief Presentation of the Nine Yanas''}} by [[Alak Zenkar Rinpoche]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 05:51, 14 September 2023
Nine Yanas (Tib. ཐེག་པ་དགུ, tekpa gu, Wyl. theg pa dgu) or nine successive vehicles (Tib. ཐེག་པ་རིམ་པ་དགུ་, tekpa rimpa gu, Wyl. theg pa rim pa dgu) — within the Nyingma tradition, the full spectrum of spiritual paths is divided into nine yanas, a system of practice bringing together all the approaches of the Buddha’s teaching into a single comprehensive path to enlightenment.
Origin
The nine yanas are referred to in the Kulayaraja Tantra (Kunje Gyalpo) and in the General Sutra of the Gathering of All Intentions (Düpa Do), which is the central scripture of Anuyoga.
Subdivision According to the Three Kayas[4]
- Dharmakaya teachings refer to the teachings of Atiyoga
- Sambhogakaya teachings refer to the teachings of the three outer yanas, as well as Mahayoga and Anuyoga
- Nirmanakaya teachings refer to the teachings of the three causal vehicles
Notes & References
- ↑ The vajrayana is not a separate vehicle from mahayana, but actually belongs within mahayana as a distinctive vehicle of skilful means.
- ↑ This division into four paths is mentioned in The Nine Yanas, from Dzogchen & Padmasambhava, page 23.
- ↑ Wyl. rang grol lam.
- ↑ Based on Jokyab Rinpoche, in Padmasambhava & Jamgön Kongtrul, The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 1 (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe, 1999), page 247-8.
Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha
- Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 17 September 2011
Further Reading
- Chögyam Trungpa, The Lion's Roar: An Introduction to Tantra, The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume Four (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003).
- Dzogchen Ponlop, Wild Awakening (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), 'Part 3: The Dzogchen Journey'.
- Ron Garry, Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), 'Appendix 1: An Explanation of the Nine Vehicles'.
- S.G. Karmay, Origin and Early Development of the Tibetan Religious Traditions of the Great Perfection
- Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra, translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), pages 306-347.
- Sogyal Rinpoche,
- The Nine Yanas, from Dzogchen & Padmasambhava, republished in 2004. Available here
- Dzogchen & Padmasambhava, Rigpa Fellowship, 1989, pages 53-71.
- Thinley Norbu, The Small Golden Key (Shambhala Publications, 1999), ‘5. The Differences Between the Buddha's Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana Teachings'.
- Tulku Thondup,
- Masters of Meditation and Miracles, edited by Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, 1999), pages 16-20.
- The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice, LTWA, 1982, 'Part Three, The Nine Yanas'.
