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'''Highest Yoga Tantra''' (Skt. ''Anuttarayoga''/''Yoganiruttara''/''Yogānuttara Tantra''<ref>Despite the popularity of Anuttarayoga as a so-called 'back translation' from Tibetan into Sanskrit, this is not attested to in any original Indian text, and scholars generally believe the correct form to be ''yoganiruttara'' or ''yogānuttara''.</ref>; Tib. [[བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་རྒྱུད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''rnal 'byor bla na med pa'i rgyud'') is the highest of the [[four classes of tantra]]. According to the [[Sarma]] tradition, Highest Yoga [[Tantra]]s are divided into [[Mother Tantras]], [[Father Tantras]] and [[Non-dual Tantras]].  
'''Highest Yoga Tantra''' (Skt. ''Anuttarayoga''/''Yoganiruttara''/''Yogānuttara Tantra''<ref>Despite the popularity of Anuttarayoga as a so-called 'back translation' from Tibetan into Sanskrit, this is not attested to in any original Indian text, and scholars generally believe the correct form to be ''yoganiruttara'' or ''yogānuttara''.</ref>; Tib. [[བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་རྒྱུད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''rnal 'byor bla na med pa'i rgyud'') is the highest of the [[four classes of tantra]]. According to the [[Sarma]] tradition, Highest Yoga [[Tantra]]s are divided into [[Mother Tantras]], [[Father Tantras]] and [[Non-dual Tantras]].  


In the [[Nyingma]] tradition, the Anuttarayoga Tantra corresponds to the three inner tantras of [[Mahayoga]], [[Anuyoga]] and [[Atiyoga]], and all Mother, Father and Non-dual tantras of the Sarma tradition belong to the [[Mahayoga]] class of tantras.
In the [[Nyingma]] tradition, the Anuttarayoga Tantra corresponds to the three inner tantras of [[Mahayoga]], [[Anuyoga]] and [[Atiyoga]].


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Revision as of 08:57, 10 January 2012

Highest Yoga Tantra (Skt. Anuttarayoga/Yoganiruttara/Yogānuttara Tantra[1]; Tib. བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་རྒྱུད་, Wyl. rnal 'byor bla na med pa'i rgyud) is the highest of the four classes of tantra. According to the Sarma tradition, Highest Yoga Tantras are divided into Mother Tantras, Father Tantras and Non-dual Tantras.

In the Nyingma tradition, the Anuttarayoga Tantra corresponds to the three inner tantras of Mahayoga, Anuyoga and Atiyoga.

Notes

  1. Despite the popularity of Anuttarayoga as a so-called 'back translation' from Tibetan into Sanskrit, this is not attested to in any original Indian text, and scholars generally believe the correct form to be yoganiruttara or yogānuttara.

Further Reading

  • Daniel Cozort, Highest Yoga Tantra (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005).
  • Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, The World of Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), '19. Advanced Tantric Practice: Highest Yoga Tantra'.