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CONTENTS: Sublime Path to Kechara
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ABOUT KHEN RINPOCHE
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xiv
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PREFACE
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xvii
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INTRODUCTION
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3
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FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD: SLEEPING YOGA, WAKING YOGA, AND YOGA OF TASTING NECTAR
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21
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FOURTH: YOGA OF THE IMMEASURABLES
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29
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Meaning and Purpose of Taking Refuge
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30
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Visualizing the Object of Refuge
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33
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Refuge Recitation
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37
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Benefits of Taking Refuge
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38
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Generating Bodhichitta
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39
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Four Immeasurables
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40
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Requesting Blessing from the Object of Refuge
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42
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Dissolving the Object of Refuge
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43
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Instantly Arising as Vajrayogini
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44
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Inner Offering
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49
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Clearing away bad spirits
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52
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Dissolving into emptiness
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53
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Generating the pure substances
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53
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Blessing the substances
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57
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Ultimate Meaning of the inner offering
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60
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Blessing the Outer Offerings
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62
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Vajrasattva Meditation
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65
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FIFTH: GURU YOGA
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79
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Visualizing the Assemblage of Lamas
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86
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Prostrating to the Merit Field
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89
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Presenting the Outer Offerings
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90
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Presenting the Inner Offering
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91
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Presenting the Secret Offering and the Offering of Ultimate Reality
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92
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Seven Pure Practices
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94
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Kusali Tsok
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95
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Preparing the nectar
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96
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Offering the nectar
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99
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Mandala Offering
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103
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Supplicating the Lineage Lamas
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110
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Requesting the Four Initiations
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125
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Dissolving the Merit Field
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132
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SIXTH: YOGA OF GENERATING ONESELF AS THE DEITY
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137
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Taking Death as the Path to a Buddha's Wisdom Body
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137
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Taking the Intermediate State as the Path to a Buddha's Enjoyment Body
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152
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Taking Rebirth as the Path to a Buddha's Emancipation Body
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154
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SEVENTH: YOGA OF PURIFYING BEINGS
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167
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EIGHTH: YOGA OF RECEIVING BLESSINGS FROM THE HEROES AND HEROINES
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173
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Body Mandala
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174
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Generating the central deity and the four essence dakinis
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177
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Generating the thirty-two surrounding dakinis
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180
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Mixing the Three Messengers by Causing the Wisdom Beings to Enter Your Body
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187
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Donning the Armor
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192
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Conferring the Initiation and Planting the Seal
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194
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Presenting the Four Offerings
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197
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Outer offerings
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200
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Inner offering
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204
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Secret offering and offering of ultimate reality
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204
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The Eight Lines of Praise
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209
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Benefits of reciting the
Eight Lines of Praise
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215
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NINTH: YOGA OF VERBAL AND MENTAL RECITATION
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221
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Verbal Recitation
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222
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Special Qualities of Vajrayogini's Mantra and Meditation Practice
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226
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Mental Recitation and the Two Incidental Completion Stage Practices
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229
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First incidental completion stage practice
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230
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Mental Recitation
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231
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Second incidental completion stage practice
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232
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TENTH: INCONCEIVABLE YOGA
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237
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ELEVENTH: YOGA OF REGULAR ACTIVITIES
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245
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Protection Mantras
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247
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Maintaining the Three Attitudes
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248
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Blessing the Outer Offerings
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249
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Blessing the Torma Offering
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250
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Inviting the Beings to Whom the Torma Will Be Offered
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252
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Presenting the Outer Offerings and the Inner Offering
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255
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Praising Vajrayogini and the Dakinis
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255
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Prayer to See the Glorious Face of the Queen of Kechara
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257
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Prayer to Have your Aims Fulfilled
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266
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Offerings to the Dharma Protectors
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267
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Extensive Monlam Prayer to Vajrayogini
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275
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Dissolving the Wisdom Beings to Yourself and Inviting the Worldly Guests to Return to Their Abodes
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Verses of AuspicIousness
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287
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CONCLUSION
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289
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GLOSSARY
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Tibetan to English
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297
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English to Tibetan
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319
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INDEX
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"Sublime Path to Khechara" 
