Sanskrit School
Mahāyoga
Mahāyoga, Great Yoga
महायोग
མཧཱ་ཡོ་ག, རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོ།
Basic Meaning
This is first one of the inner tantric schools according to the Nyingma tradition. Mahāyoga includes two sub-sections of the tantras which includes eighteen tantras and the sādhanās that includes the eight sādhanā practices. Mahāyoga focuses on the Development Stage and espouses the view of equality and purity in which equality refers to equal nature of phenomena in being empty and purity refers to all appearances being inherently enlightened energies. The Mahāyoga path leads to four stages of vidyadharas.
| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | Mahāyoga |
| Topic Variation | Mahāyoga |
| Tibetan | མཧཱ་ཡོ་ག, རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོ། ( naljor chenpo) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | rnal 'byor chen po ( naljor chenpo) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | महायोग ( Mahāyoga) |
| Romanized Sanskrit | Mahāyoga ( Mahāyoga) |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | Mahāyoga, Great Yoga |
| Richard Barron's English Term | supreme immersion |
| Term Information | |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | This is first one of the inner tantric schools according to the Nyingma tradition. Mahāyoga includes two sub-sections of the tantras which includes eighteen tantras and the sādhanās that includes the eight sādhanā practices. Mahāyoga focuses on the Development Stage and espouses the view of equality and purity in which equality refers to equal nature of phenomena in being empty and purity refers to all appearances being inherently enlightened energies. The Mahāyoga path leads to four stages of vidyadharas. |
| Term Type | School |
| Definitions | |
| Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | In Sanskrit great yoga”; the seventh of the nine vehicles according to the Rnying ma sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Here, the system of practice described elsewhere as anuttarayogatantra is divided into three: mahäyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga, with mahäyoga corresponding roughly to practices of the “stage of generation” (utpaitikrama), in which one visualizes oneself as a deity and one’s environment as a maņdala. Its root text is the Guhyagarbhatantra. |
| RigpaWiki | rigpa:Mahayoga |
