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An Explanation of a Tantric Scripture — Toh 1456
Context
This scripture belongs to the Kangyur Tantras, a collection of Vajrayāna scriptures compiled in the Tibetan tradition. Tantra is the path of practice of Vajrayāna, in which the goal of liberation is realized through transformation and the visualization of deities (yidam). Unlike the Mahāyāna, which often visualizes with a mind of reverence, Tantra visualizes with the recognition that one is that very deity. This is called “correspondence with buddha-nature.”
The Kangyur (the collection of Sutra and Vinaya from the Buddha) is classified into many sections, among which the Tantras are scriptures that teach the long-secret methods of Tantra. Although the title of Toh 1456 has not been fully translated, according to its position in the Kangyur it concerns practices related to visualization, mantras, and the conditions for tantric practice.
Main Contents
Tantric scriptures of this lineage usually teach the basic structure of practice: first, one must possess a profound “mind of refuge,” and the practitioner must receive initiation from an accomplished guru. Next come teachings on “continual observance” (samaya), the special commitments of Tantra, which are stricter than the Mahāyāna precepts.
The specific content relates to the visualization of the deity (yidam sādhana): the practitioner imagines dissolving into emptiness, thereby opening into the sublime reality (śūnyatā, emptiness), and then, from a seed syllable (bīja-mantra), visualizes the perfect deity, with light and detail. This visualization is not ordinary imaginative creation, but “contemplation of the buddha-nature of consciousness.”
In addition, the practice of mantra recitation (mantra-japa) is taught with specific numbers (often 100,000 times or one million times), so that the mind becomes one with the sacred sound. Tantric scriptures also emphasize the importance of “faith” (bhakti) toward the guru, because the benefit of the entire Tantric path depends upon this relationship.
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