| Preface | xi |
| Technical Note | xiv |
| List of IIIustrations | xiv |
| Part I: Retreat Instructions | 1 |
| Preliminaries | 3 |
| prostrations, Offerings and Requests | 3 |
| Choosing the Time and Preparing the Sita | 3 |
| Preparation of the gtor ma | 5 |
| Ritual Implements | 8 |
| Preparatory Rituals such as Expelling Hindering
spirits | 9 |
| Generating the Boundary Marker | 9 |
| Meditating the Protection Wheel | 12 |
| Blessing the Seat | 13 |
| Actual Practice | 15 |
| Initial Session | 15 |
| Number of Sessions | 16 |
| Daily Practice: First Session | 16 |
| Other Sessions | 18 |
| Mantra Recitation | 19 |
| Conclusion | 21 |
| Colophon | 22 |
| Translator's Colophon | 22 |
| Part II: Victor over Evil: The sadhana of the solitary Hero
Vajrabhairava | 23 |
| The Sadhana | 25 |
| General Preliminaries | 25 |
| Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta | 25 |
| Guru yoga | 25 |
| Review of the Graduated Path | 27 |
| Supplication to the Lineage Gurus | 29 |
| Specific Preliminaries | 32 |
| Instantaneous Self-generation | 32 |
| Consecrating the inner Offering | 32 |
| Consecrating the Preliminary Sense offerings to the Direction
Protectors | 33 |
| Consecrating the Torma offering to the Direction protectors
| 34 |
| Invocation of and Offering of the Torma, sense and inner Offerings to the
Directions Protectors | 35 |
| Praise and Exhortation | 36 |
| Requesting Forbearance | 36 |
| requesting to Depart | 36 |
| Consecrations of sense Offerings for the Self-generation
| 37 |
| Meditational Recitation of Vajrasattva | 38 |
| Actual Session | 40 |
| Inviting the fold of Merit | 40 |
| Seven Limb Practice: Dedication, Refuge and Generating Aspiring andEngaging Bodhicitta | 40 |
| Tantric vows | 41 |
| Four Immeasurables | 42 |
| Meditation of taking Death as the path of the Truth Body
| 42 |
| Meditation of the Common Protection Wheel | 42 |
| Meditation on the Common Wheel | 42 |
| Meditation on the Uncommon protection Wheel of the Ten Wrathful Deities | 43 |
| Meditation of Taking The Intermediate State as the path of the
Enjoyment Body | 49 |
| Description of Vajrabhairava | 50 |
| Blessing of the Sources, Body, speech and Mind | 52 |
| Meditating on the Triple Stack Heroic Minds | 52 |
| Invitation of the wisdom Deities | 53 |
| Inviting the Empowering Deities | 53 |
| Initiating and Sealing by the Empowering Deities | 54 |
| Inner Offering to the Lamas of the Lineage, the Yidams, protectors and
so Forth | 55 |
| Extensive Praise | 57 |
| Brief Praise | 59 |
| Minding the Symbolism | 59 |
| Consecrating the Rosary | 60 |
| Mantra Recitation | 61 |
| Making Offering and praise | 65 |
| Conclusion of the Session | 66 |
| Consecration of the Torma Offering to Yamantake and the Direction
Protectors, who are Respectively the Transcendental and Worldly Deities, as well as to
Karmayama | 66 |
| Offerings and Praise to Yamantake | 66 |
| Visualization of the Guests for the Torma | 67 |
| Offerings and Praise to the Direction Protectors | 68 |
| Generation of Karmayama | 69 |
| Initiating, Sealing, Binding to Commitment, and Offering
| 70 |
| Exhorting to Activities | 71 |
| Thanksgiving Offering and Praise | 72 |
| Extensive Prayer | 73 |
| Short Prayer | 76 |
| Requesting Forbearance | 76 |
| Requesting the Guests for the Torma Offering to Deport
| 76 |
| Dissolution | 76 |
| Extensive Verses of Auspiciousness | 77 |
| Colophon | 80 |
| Translator's Colophon | 80 |
| part III: Appendixes | 81 |
| Outline of the Sadhana | 83 |
| Consecration of the Action Vase Water | 86 |
| offering to the General Dakinis | 88 |
| Offering to the Lord of the Site | 90 |
| Offering to the Hindering Spirits | 92 |
| Ritual Words of the Sixty-four [Offering] | 97 |
| A Tsogs Offering to Glorious Vajrabhairava
| 114 |
