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Vaidyapada, ղⲹ岹, Vaidya-pada: 2 definitions

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Vaidyapada means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

: eScholarship: Buddhajñānāpāda's Vision of a Tantric Buddhist World

ղⲹ岹 (वैद्यपाद) is the author of the Yogasapta.�(Cf. Yogasapta).—The “seven yogas�, mentioned in Buddhajñānapāda’s Muktitilaka and elaborated in ղⲹ岹’s Yogasapta, are seven aspects of the resultant state of awakening. It seems that in this system it was in terms of these seven yogas that suchness was communicated by the Guru to the disciple. The seven yogas are mentioned by Buddhajñānapāda in the Muktitilaka, where they are described as the “perfection stage of the perfection stage,� (Muktitilaka, D 52a.2), and are also said to be realized instantaneously by a Yogin engaged in post-initiatory practice () (Muktitilaka, D 51b). These seven yogas, which are mentioned but not listed in the Muktitilaka, thus seem to refer in Buddhajñānapāda’s work to practices that are to be carried out by the Yogin subsequent to initiation. In ղⲹ岹’s Yogasapta, however, the seven yogas are explained in much greater detail as seven states or experiences that the student is meant to undergo in the context of initiation—specifically during what is called “the fourth�.

: Rigpa Shedra: Wiki

ղⲹ岹 (वैद्यपाद) possibly refers to another name of ūṃk—one of the most learned Indian Buddhist masters. According to the Pema Kathang, Humkara’s home-country is the mythical country of Ngatubchen (rnga thub chen). There, ūṃk was initiated into the Kagye—the Nyingma’s eight main yidam which includes Śrī Heruka—from Padmasambhava and his consort Kālasiddhi. Tārānātha suggests that ūṃk may have been an epithet of the Siddha ղⲹ岹 aka Vīryapāda. Accordingly, ղⲹ岹 received the epithet ūṃk after he had practised and accomplished the wrathful deity named ūṃk. The short biography of ղⲹ岹 that Tārānātha relates, matches the biography that Dudjom Rinpoche gives of ūṃk.

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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’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.

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