Contents

       Preface

       Technical Note

       INTRODUCTION BY JEFFREY HOPKINS

  1   Altruistic Purification

  2   Deity Yoga: The Special Tantric Technique

  3   Motivation: The Thirty-Seven Practices

  4   Emptiness Yoga

  5   History of the Kālachakra Tantra

  6   Initiations and Mandalas

  7   Procedure of the Enhancement

  8   Procedure of the Initiations

  9   The Texts

10   The Author of the Mandala Rite

11   The Author of the Commentary

       THE DALAI LAMA’S COMMENTARY ON THE KĀLACHAKRA INITIATION RITE: STAGE OF GENERATION

       Part One: Enhancing the Students

       Background

  1   Motivation and Internal Initiation

  2   Supplication and Faith

  3   Vows and Blessing

  4   Tooth-Stick, Water, Kusha Grass, and Thread

  5   Six Lineages and Vajrasattva

  6   Enthusiasm and Dreams

       Part Two: Entry into the Mandala

  1   Structure

  2   Outside the Curtain

  3   Seeing the Mandala

       Part Three: The Initiations

       Orientation

  1   Water Initiation

  2   Crown Initiation

  3   Silk Ribbon Initiation

  4   Vajra and Bell Initiation

  5   Conduct Initiation

  6   Name Initiation

  7   Permission Initiation and Appendages

       Part Four: Conclusion

  1   Understanding the Time of Attainment

  2   Advice to Abandon the Root Infractions

  3   Prayer-Wishes

  4   Daily Practice

       RITES FOR DAILY PRACTICE: THREE VERSIONS OF THE SIX SESSION YOGA

       Introduction

  1   Guru Yoga of Kālachakra in Connection with the Six Sessions in Completely Facilitating Form

  2   Six Session Yoga

  3   Abbreviated Six Session Yoga

       APPENDIX

  1   Mantras in the Kālachakra Initiation, Stage of Generation

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1   Sūtras and Tantras

  2   Sanskrit and Tibetan Works

  3   Other Works

       NOTES

  1   Notes to the Introduction

  2   Notes to the Commentary

       Index