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	Yidam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Yidam is an enlightened being with whom one identifies during meditation: one perceives his or her own Buddha nature through such identification.
		Yidams are not to be equated with deities, patron saints or guardian angels found in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.
		The yidam, which can be masculine or feminine, may refer to the personal deity, the nature of which corresponds to the individual psychological temper of each adept.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yidam (333 words)

	Yidams : Source of Accomplishments
		The yidam is in the middle of the palace, and all beings appear in the form of the yidam.
		Yidams and protectors are very important in the Vajrayana, however the lama, the root of blessing, is the most important element.
		The body of the yidam is the unity of appearance and emptiness, the mantra is the unity of sound and emptiness, and the mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.
	www.purifymind.com /YidamsAccomplish.htm (1833 words)

	Yidam: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Yidam is an enlightened being who one identifies with during meditation: One perceives his or her own Buddha nature through such identification.
		Yidams are not to be equated with patron saints or guardian angels found in the Jewish, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The Yidam is used as a means of transformation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/yi/yidam.htm (558 words)

	Show Writings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yidam are either realized beings who where once in human form, for example, Buddha Shakyamuni was Siddhartha Gotama before his enlightenment; some yidam are aspects of such beings visualized separately for purposes of practice.
		A yidam is not a God with a capitol G. Buddhist deities are beings who exist in a formless state of pure skandhas (aggregates) without the afflictions, obscurations and negativities of the three poisons which characterize the state of human beings’ skandhas.
		With yidam practice one can feel the cutting through which opens our mind to vajra nature; not only are we the same as others, we are one and the same as the yidam: empty in essence, filled with natural clarity (wisdom) and compassion.
	www.prairiesangha.org /articles/displayArticles.cfm?ID=119 (1742 words)

	Dharma Dictionary - Yidam
		Yidams may be sambhogkaya buddhas, tantric deities, bodhisattvas, dharma protectors or historical figures.
		The yidam is one of the so-called Three Roots that are the objects of refuge in vajrayana: the guru, the yidams, and the protectors and dakinis.
		Thus, the re-visualized self is the yidam deity and the re-imagined world is the mandala of the yidam appearing to one's pure perception.
	www.thebuddhadharma.com /issues/2005/spring/dharma_dictionary.html (763 words)

	Y
		The essence of the yidam is the Lama, present manifestation of all the Buddhas.
		Yidams are manifestations of the sambhogakhaya (buddha-body of delight) and are visualized in meditative practice, i.e.
		Tibetan Buddhism does not particularly regard yidams as protective deities (as the personal deities are regarded in Hindu Tantra); rather their function is as an aid in the transformative process in which the practitioner comes to acknowledge his or her own basic personality structure.
	www.turtlehill.org /glos/y.html (1982 words)

	Yidam
		In Buddhism, a Yidam (Tibetan) or Ishtadevata (Sanskrit) is a fully enlightened being who is the focus of personal meditation, during a retreat or for one's life.
		Yidams are not to be equated with patron saints or guardian angels found in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.
		Chenrezi, Tara under her different forms, Manjusri and particularly Kalachakra, Hevajra and consort Nairatmya, Heruka and consort Vajravarahi, etc. are frequently chosen as Yidam, but any deity of the tantric pantheon may be adopted as such.
	www.dcult.com /Buddhism-(L-Z)/Yidam.php (258 words)

	Yidam - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Buddhism, Yidams are fully enlightened beings who are the focus of personal meditation during a retreat or for one's life.
		The Yidam, which can be masculine or feminine, may refer to the personnal deity, the nature of which corresponds to the individual psychological temper of each adept.
		Yab-yum is generally understood to represent the mystical union of the method (upaya - conceived of as masculine) with wisdom (prajna - conceived of as feminie) - a fusion necessary to overcome the false duality of object and subject.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Yidam (617 words)

	FiveFold Mahamudra
		The second is the yidam deity, which is the essence of practice.
		Yidam practice is the antidote to arrogance, the grasping to a self.
		Yidam practice overcomes the spirits of Mara, which are the result of arrogance.
	buddhism.inbaltimore.org /fivefold_mahamudra.html (2461 words)

	Paradigm Shift - Change of Beliefs
		After weeks of effort, Pema found he could imagine the Yidam's voice quite vividly and sometimes it "said" things inside his head apparently of its own accord, but Kang Rinpoche anticipated such a development and warned that it was not enough.
		Although the Yidam knew many things Pema did not and could do many things Pema could not do, Pema was still haunted by the idea that he had somehow constructed the entity rather than calling it up.
		If he succeeded in creating a Yidam that would walk and talk with him, his guru would tell him his studies were ended since he now had the wisest and most powerful teacher possible.
	www.deeptrancenow.com /paradigm.htm (3368 words)

	Obituary of Tibetan writer Yidam Tsering - www.phayul.com
		Yidam Tsering was born in Tsongkhakar (Chin: Pingan) county in Tsoshar prefecture (Chin:Haidong) in 1933, into a poor family.
		Students who met Yidam and saw him recite poems in public have told TIN how he would be deeply moved as he read poems that were rich in their use of Tibetan symbols, such as the snow lion and snow.
		Yidam Tsering is reported to have expressed his deep regret at not being able to write in Tibetan but many of his readers have commented on the significance of how his writing introduced Tibetan culture and history to a large Chinese readership.
	phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=8629&...+writer+Yidam+Tsering&t=1&c=1 (1191 words)

	Show Writings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yidam are deities, beings who have accomplished the indestructible nature of all the buddhas.
		By doing yidam practice we are not purifying the mind one arising at a time, but purifying karmic patterns that have been forming over lifetimes through the application of visualization, mantra and mandala - all aspects of yidam practice.
		A yidam, although no longer existent in embodied form, can be brought into form in our minds for practice purposes by visualizing this powerful energy as the being who actually perfected the energy and dedicated it to be of benefit to all sentient beings such as ourselves.
	www.prairiesangha.org /articles/displayArticles.cfm?ID=106 (884 words)

	Yidams, a Fonte das Realizações
		A meditação nas divindades yidam são divididas em duas fases, a chamada fase de desenvolvimento (tib.
		As fases de desenvolvimento das divindades yidam correspondem a verdade relativa, ao modo como as coisas se apresentam.
		O corpo do yidam é a união de aparência e vacuidade, o mantra é a união som e vacuidade, a mente é a união de atenção plena e vacuidade.
	www.dharmanet.com.br /vajrayana/yidams.htm (1740 words)

	WAiB - Female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
		The eleventh-century Tibetan founder of the chöd (cutting) practice, Machig Labdrön is usually depicted in deified form as a peaceful white dancing figure with three eyes, playing a damaru (two-sided drum) with her right hand and holding a bell with her left.
		She appears in deified form as a yidam of long life, wearing the ornaments of a bodhisattva.
		Samantabhadri (Kuntuzangmo in Tibetan) is the consort and female counterpart of Samantabhadra/Kuntuzangpo, the primordial Buddha of the older schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
	www.members.tripod.com /~Lhamo/9deity.htm (4278 words)

	Booklet No. 73_Chenian Commentary on the Tantric Ritual of Avalokitesvara White and Red, Volume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Yidam in the position of consequence is of Sunyata and the one in the position of cause is also of Sunyata.
		The Yidam in the consequence position who is the bestower of the initiation is the same entity in Sunyata as the Yidam in the causal position, who is the recipient of the initiation.
		To visualize oneself as a Yidam is to carry on all the holy Karmas of the salvation of Avalokitesvara.
	www.yogichen.org /chenian/bk73.html (7369 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Yidam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But you should understand, many of us have relationships with different yidams over the course of time.....at least until one has become a lama, training in various yidams is a normal thing to do.
		At some point, a student will, together with his lama, determine which Yidam deity will be most important for his or her practice, and that's the one the student will focus on.
		I had figured a yidam would be assigned in a more linear way, but there it is. I just follow the advice of my lamas when they fine-tune my practice, then sometimes it fruitions in unexpected ways.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=8721 (1096 words)

	Non-Death Yoga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The yidam is identical to the mind in all activity—walking, standing, sitting, sleeping, etc. They are never separate.
		Visualize the yidam body to be the same in nature as a dream.
		In the original text that is in bold print, it mentions that the flesh body dies, then the yidam body is born in the Sunyata light.
	www.yogichen.org /chenian/bk86.html (2958 words)

	Teaching: Lama, Yidam, Dakini
		The yidam is the tantric deity, a completely enlightened being, not like an ordinary spirit or human or nature force.
		The yidam is enlightened consciousness, the source of the teachings.
		The yidam Sangchog Gyalpo is where these teachings are coming from.
	www.ligmincha.org /program/description/lama_yidam_dakini.html (470 words)

	Chapter Five Part 2
		The Yidam (yi dam) is a meditational deity.
		Having receiving the initiation, the disciple is allowed to practice the tantra on the basis of the deity or yidam whose initiation he or she has received.
		Yidams, pawos, khandros and Dharma protectors are all aspects of the lama within the merit field.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /tibetan/greatchariot6-2.htm (16042 words)

	Vajra Rainbow: "Pride & Prejudice" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The form of the yidam is none other than the Lama from whom one has received transmission; and therefore the yidam - whatever the hue, gender, or appearance - must never be separate from one's devotion to the Lama.
		Because it is common for Vajrayana practitioners to receive empowerments into all three categories of yidam it is necessary for practitioners to have a vital and vigorous appreciation of each form, in what every colour, gender, or mode of appearance the yidam displays.
		If we are to manifest the vajra pride of our chosen yidams, we need to recognise that the forms of our yidams are sacred forms, and that therefore the forms of all beings are equally sacred in terms of the pure vision of Vajrayana.
	www.pamo.fsnet.co.uk /Pride%20&%20Prejudice.htm (1668 words)

	Tibet Conservancy for Tibetan Art & Culture
		Kalachakra refers to a vast system of spiritual exercises said to be taught by the Buddha more than 2,500 years ago in India, and also is the name of the principal yidam (meditational deity) in this system.
		Tantra refers to specific methods in Vajrayana Buddhism that utilize a chosen yidam to bring about a positive result.
		Yidams, such as the Kalachakra deity, represent both enlightenment and particular qualities of the enlightened mind that the meditator is trying to cultivate.
	www.tibetanculture.org /culture_traditions/religion/kalachakra.htm (327 words)

	Dbang and Yidam
		However, spiritual trawlers might pick up on dbang (empowerment) and yidam (personal or tutelary deity, what Hindus call ishta devata; aka root of accomplishment or karya mool; personal protector or rakshak of both ang and atma; and our practical guide to enlightenment).
		Yidam, then, is self-explanatory: the guiding, protecting principle by which we let our inner self mesh through our actions — in thought, word and deed — with the outer rhythms of the universe.
		Ensuring that liberal arts are taught as a matter of course from nursery school (first, making those schools), so that people painlessly absorb the history of ideas which alone can furnish heads and permit us to maximise our lives as individuals and as Indians.
	iecolumnists.expressindia.com /full_column.php?content_id=76718 (379 words)

	Buddhist Problems Answered
		If both the yidam and the deity to be visualized are in the same Buddha family, then they should be seen in the correct positions, as when Avalokitesvara or Amitabha are visualized on the head of Tara.
		All the yidams in Anuttarayoga have a dakini embraced in the Heruka-form.
		If she is one’s yidam, it is good for the First Initiation and she may again be worshipped in single form in the Fourth Initiation, but in the Third, the yidam must be in Heruka-form.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /buddhist_problems_answered.htm (7840 words)

	Sakyadhita - Female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
		The eleventh-century Tibetan founder of the chd (cutting) practice, Machig Labdron is usually depicted in deified form as a peaceful white dancing figure with three eyes, playing a damaru (two-sided drum) with her right hand and holding a bell with her left.
		Marici is a red-coloured female yidam associated with the sun and with dawn.
		This dark-blue figure appears as both a single yidam and also in union with her consort, the Highest Yoga Tantra male yidam Hevajra.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~tsomo/deities.html (2969 words)

	Buddha's Words - Gotaro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The meaning of it is as follows: All appearances arise in a mutual dependence.
		In that sense, the yidam is called "the root of accomplishments." The protectors, "the root of activity," can be seen as the manifold expression of the yidams, which again are the expression of the Dharmadhatu mind of the lama.
		What about the so called "ultimate yidam?" Chenrezig (Loving Eyes) for example appears in a very specific form, with four arms, etc. Nevertheless, this is not the ultimate aspect of this yidam; it is just the way he appears.
	www.homestead.com /gotaro/Page29B.html (5798 words)

	Shalu Association - GONGKAR CHÖDE MONASTERY
		The entire Yidam chapel, on the first floor, containing ten large panels depicting tantric deities, is in a different style, perhaps a little later, but of excellent execution.
		Shalu Association proposes to help with reinforcing the structure in the Yidam chapel, where a forest of support pillars were propping up the main beams.
		The sixteenth-century wall paintings with which Shalu Association is principally concerned are located in the assembly hall, the circumambulatory passage, and in the first floor (level 2) Yidam chapel of the northern extension.
	www.asianart.com /shalu/gongkar/index.html (939 words)

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