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Chapter III: Tantric Doctrine in "Hevajra Tantra, 1. The essence of Highest Yoga Tantra In chapter One of the thesis, it has been cited that the unique feature of Buddhist Tantra, specially Highest Yoga Tantra is the application of Emptiness Yoga in union with. Deity Yoga and that the tantric practice is built on a foundation of altruistic motivation and requires requires the Bodhisattvas' altruistic deeds. In the four Tantra sets the distinctive tantric practice of Deity Yoga, motivated by great compassion and beginning with Emptiness Yoga, is carried out in different ways. Various levels of desire involved in looking, smiling, touching, and sexual union -are utilized by the main trainees of the four Tantra schools in accordance with their disposition to styles of practice. It is done to emphasize external activities, balance external activities and meditative stabilization, emphasize meditative stabilization, or exclusively focus on meditative stabilization. The tantric techniques are geared to the levels of capacity of trainees as they proceed in their practice over the continuum of life times, the variety of vehicles and forms being a representation of Buddha's compassionate knowledge.159 In all four Tantras desire is used in the path. But it is only in Highest Yoga Tantra that the desire for sexual union is used in the path for liberation. It does not mean that sexual promiscuity is being advocated. In fact in Tantra the Six perfections recommended in the Sutra path is more stringently adhered to and a person with overwhelming compassion for the suffering sentient beings can enter the Tantra path. The reason for entering the Tantra path is to hasten the process of enlightenment for the benefit of others. One of the techniques used to quicken the progress is sexual desire. But a practitioner can deem himself eligible to 159 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, (tr., ed. & Intro. by) Jeffrey Hopkins, Kalachakra Tantra (Boston: Wisdom Publications, Enlarged ed., 1999), p.38. - - 101

use sexual desire only after he has mastered the practices of the Generation Stage that deals with clear conceptual understanding of Sunyata or Emptiness and using the same consciousness to manifest himself and his environment in the deity form by replicating the Clear Light experiences of Death, Intermediate State and Re-birth.