This eight-session class will meet biweekly, and cover the following topics:
- Brief historical background and presentation of the lineage of the Vajrayogini practice
- The Vajrayogini principle and what it means “to arise as” or “to be” Vajrayogini during sadhana practice
- The inseparability of the three types of Vajrayogini as presented by the Sixth Karmapa, Tongwa Töndon, the composer of our Vajrayogini sadhana
- The visualization of the protection circle & the body of Vajrayogini & the sources of dharmas & the principle of visualization
- Self-visualization, vase-visualization, and front-visualization: what is common, what is different
- Four ways of working with kleshas
- Hand-offering
- Four offerings and praises
- The preliminaries of the abhisheka section & the abhisheka section itself
- The feast section
Hosted by: Ocean and KCCL
Image Credit: Vajrayogini painted by the 17th Karmapa.
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