The samaya (Tibetan: དམ་ཚིག, Wylie: dam tshig, Japanese and Chinese: 三昧耶戒, J: sonmaya-kai, C: Sān mè yē jiè), is a set of vows or precepts given to initiates of an esoteric Vajrayana …

The Secret Mantra’s samaya vows of the masters of awareness are twofold: those associated with maturing empowerments and those associated with liberating instructions. Generally …

Fourteen root downfalls (Tib. རྩ་ལྟུང་བཅུ་བཞི་, tsa tung chu shyi, Wyl. rtsa ltung bcu bzhi) — fourteen major samayas in the Sarma tradition. There are two variations of the root tantric vows, one …

In the Nyingma school, there are 28 samaya vows, divided into three root vows and 25 branch vows. The three root vows are: (i) The vow of the body: to venerate the guru. (ii) The vow of …

The Tibetan word “damtsig,” “samaya” in Sanskrit, means “close bond.” It refers to practices that create a close bond between us and a Buddha-figure or our spiritual teacher.

May 12, 2007 · All higher tantric empowerments bind those who receive them with serious vows, known as samaya vows. In the Nyingma school, there are 28 samaya vows, divided into three …

The samaya vows bring a great wave of benefit for others and transform dissonant mental states into pristine cognition. He further explains how the monastic vows of renunciation, the …

Thus samaya is a statement that is true, genuine, pure, real. To apply oneself in a way that is in harmony with how the truth is, is called keeping the samaya. When the samayas are described …

From around the twelfth century—several hundred years after Buddhism arrived in Tibet—Tibetan masters began to codify sets of samaya vows. In some early texts, the vows could be highly …

The Secret Mantra’s samaya vows of the masters of awareness are twofold: those associated with maturing empowerments and those associated with liberating instructions. Generally …