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The Aura of Wisdom

  • Written by Sheng-yen Lu
  • Translated and edited by True Buddha Foundation
  • Translation Team (Cheng Yew Chung, Victor Hazen, Dance Smith)
Contents:
  1. Chapter 01: Spiritual Conviction
  2. Chapter 02: Vanity
  3. Chapter 03: Adopting a Monastic Life
  4. Chapter 04: Manifestations
  5. Chapter 05: Spiritual Response
  6. Chapter 06: Purification of One`s Mind
  7. Chapter 07: Right View
  8. Chapter 08: The True Acarya
  9. Chapter 09: Self Importance
  10. Chapter 10: The Four Levels of Empowerment
  11. Chapter 11: Making Offerings
  12. Chapter 12: Making Offerings (2)
  13. Chapter 13: Spiritual Verification
  14. Chapter 14: Keeping the Codes and Precepts
  15. Chapter 15: The Spirit of Upholding the Precepts
  16. Chapter 16: The True Buddha School
  17. Chapter 17: True Practice
  18. Chapter 18: Respect the Guru
  19. Chapter 19: The Most Comprehensive System of Buddhist Practice
  20. Chapter 20: Do Not Slander the Tantric Teachings
  21. Chapter 21: Ignorance
  22. Chapter 22: Liberal Verification
  23. Chapter 23: The Sutra and Tantra Traditions
  24. Chapter 24: Dharma Epithet
  25. Chapter 25:The Secret Referred to in the Secret Teachings
  26. Chapter 26:Mahabodhicitta, the Mind of Perfect Enlightenment
  27. Chapter 27: Perfect Penetration of the Sutra and Tantra Teachings
  28. Chapter 28: The Mandala
  29. Chapter 29: Attaining Budddhahood in this Very Body
  30. Chapter 30: Refrain from Killing
  31. Chapter 31: Taking Meat or Vegetarian Meals
  32. Chapter 32: Offering Wine and Meat to the Buddha
  33. Chapter 33: Why Practice Buddhism and Do Cultivation?
  34. Chapter 34: The Guru`s Power of Blessing
  35. Chapter 35: The Precious Teachings of Tantric Buddhism
  36. Chapter 36: The Jambhala or Wealth Deity Practice
  37. Chapter 37: The Wrathful Guardian Deities
  38. Chapter 38: Yab-Yum, the Consort Practice
  39. Chapter 39: The Fundamental Rationale of Tantric Buddhism
  40. Chapter 40: The Heart Essence and the Orally Transmitted Secrets
  41. Chapter 41: Cultivating with Contemplation and Visualization
  42. Chapter 42: Ajikan, the Visualization of the Seed Syllable AH
  43. Chapter 43: Choosing One`s Principal Deity (Yidam)
  44. Chapter 44: The Fourfold and Sixfold Refuge
  45. Chapter 45: Radiating Light Blessing
  46. Chapter 46: Radiating Light Invocation
  47. Chapter 47: The Importance of the Four Preliminaries
  48. Chapter 48: The Secret of Contemplating on Emptiness
  49. Chapter 49: Elucidation on the Three Powers
  50. Chapter 50: Reverence for the High King Sutra
  51. Chapter 51: A Buddha Manifestation of Great Authority
  52. Chapter 52: Merging as One
  53. Chapter 53: The Key Instructions of Entering, Abiding and Absorbing
  54. Chapter 54: Seen in the Context of Heresy
  55. Chapter 55: The Importance of Cultivating Chi
  56. Chapter 56: Cultivation through the Use of the Four Elements
  57. Chapter 57: The Body Mandala
  58. Chapter 58: The Key Instructions to Cultivating Chi
  59. Chapter 59: Leakage Spells a Fall
  60. Chapter 60: An Introduction to the Contemplation of the Non-Leakage Practice
  61. Chapter 61: A Look at Authentication
  62. Chapter 62: The Phenomena and Signs of Attaining Response
  63. Chapter 63: The Nine Levels of Accomplishment of the True Buddha Tantric Dharma
  64. Chapter 64: One Mantra, One Practice and One Principal Deity
  65. Chapter 65: Ways of Reciting Mantras
  66. Chapter 66: The Tantric Mantra is the Dharma Ship
  67. Chapter 67: Om Bu Lin
  68. Chapter 68: The Authenticity of the Principal Deity
  69. Chapter 69: Mudra as Transmitted from Space
  70. Chapter 70: Essentials of Tantric Cultivation
  71. Chapter 71: The Padmakumara Mudra and the Method of Using the Bell and Vajra
  72. Chapter 72: A Mantra is the Infinite Dharma Treasury of All Buddhas
  73. Chapter 73: A Mantra is the Treasury of Meditation
  74. Chapter 74: Arousing the Greatest Bodhicitta
  75. Chapter 75: The Protection Method and the Boundary Method
  76. Chapter 76: The Method of Seeing All Spiritual Beings
  77. Chapter 77: Signs of Purification as Arisen from the Repentance Practice
  78. Chapter 78: The Art of Knowing the Future
  79. Chapter 79: Healing with Tantric Techniques
  80. Chapter 80: The Secret of Entering the Celestial Palaces
  81. Chapter 81: The Method of Touching the Head and Slapping the Back
  82. Chapter 82: The Practice of Harmonizing
  83. Chapter 83: The Practice of Subjugation
  84. Chapter 84: The Way of Receiving Great Wisdom
  85. Chapter 85: The Mirror Shrine Psychic Hearing Method
  86. Chapter 86: The Most Secret Heart Seal
  87. Chapter 87: Debating Skills
  88. Chapter 88: The Secret to Opening the Heart Chakra
  89. Chapter 89: The Sadhana Ritual of Cultivating All Deity Practices
  90. Chapter 90: The Great Perfection of Tantrayana

 

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