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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

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The Eight Sessions on Mind Training (in Kadam) are known in Tibetan as blo sbyong thun brgyad. It represents the eight-session special instruction of Gesh茅 Dromt枚npa. Since Khampa Lungpa (1023鈥�1115) focused on and expounded it, it was known as Khampa Lungpa鈥檚 Eight-Session Mind Training.

They are:

1. special instructions on mind training based on food,
2. special instructions on mind training based on the breath,
3. special instructions on emanating as many bodies as there are sands in the Ganges,
4. special instructions on mind training based on flesh and blood,
5. special instructions on mind training based on tormas,
6. special instructions on mind training based on the elements,
7. special instructions on training the mind to emanate the body as a wish-granting jewel, and
8. special instructions on the time just before death.

Khampa Lungpa taught them condensed into eight sessions.

: Khyentse Vision: Succinct Notes on the Eight Sessions Mind Training

The Eight Sessions refers to a series of mind-training practices in Tibetan Buddhism.鈥斺�淭he Succinct Notes on the Eight Sessions Mind Training鈥� is an instructional text on mind training (lojong) in the form of edited notes. The notes are based on teachings given by one of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo鈥檚 masters from the Geluk tradition, K枚nchok Tenpa Rabgye (1801鈥�1866). The root text, the 鈥淓ight Sessions Mind Training鈥�, is attributed to Dromt枚n Gyalwe Jungne (1005鈥�1064). Lojong instructions, which often take the form of succinct statements for reflection and meditation, evolved within the Kadam tradition that developed after Ati艣a D墨pa峁僰ara鈥檚 (982鈥�1054) arrival in Tibet in the first half of the eleventh century.

The Eight Sessions Mind Training are:

1. Mind training pertaining to food;
2. Mind training pertaining to breathing;
3. Training the mind by multiplying your body into the number of grains of sand in the Ganges and taking upon yourself the sufferings of the beings of the six realms;
4. Mind training pertaining to flesh and blood;
5. Mind training pertaining to torma offering;
6. Mind training pertaining to the natural elements;
7. Training the mind by transforming oneself into a wish-fulfilling jewel;
8. Mind training as an instruction for the moment of death.

When practicing profound instructions such as these [eight sessions], you should, as a preliminary, do the six preparatory practices, and especially meditate on guru yoga and pray fervently. During the main part, you should develop complete familiarity with each of the visualizations. Afterward, when you rise from the meditation session, you should dedicate the roots of virtue. Also, during all intervals between sessions you should, without separating from the essence of the main practice, spend your time practicing virtuous actions, sustained by mindfulness and vigilance. Once you have gained a certain amount of familiarity with the practice [of the eight sessions], you should train in such a way that all occasions鈥攂oth when actually performing the practices and at other times鈥攁re taken onto the path. Practicing the two aspects of bodhicitta like this, with all your strength, is a marvelous way of extracting the essence of the freedoms and advantages of this human existence.

context information

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha鈥檚 words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (惫补箩谤补测腻苍补) are collected indepently.

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Partial matches: Training, Session, Mind.

Full-text: Mind-training, Breath, Lojong, Emanating, Food, Multiplication, Torma offering, Natural element, Breathing, Transformation, Moment of death, Flesh and blood, blo sbyong thun brgyad.

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