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(2.1) Highest Yoga Tantra

This section is devoted to the fourth (and highest) of the four classes of the tantras: “Highest Yoga Tantra” (བླ་མེད་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་, bla med rnal ’byor rgyud, anuttarayogatantra). Some of the most influential tantric texts are found here, including those from the Kālacakra, Cakrasaṃvara, and Hevajra traditions.

Literature:

• Cozort, Daniel. Highest Yoga Tantra. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1986.
• Dalton, Jacob. “A Crisis of Doxography: How Tibetans Organized Tantra During the 8th-12th Centuries.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 28:1 (2005): 115–181.
• Mkhas-grub Dge-legs-dpal-bzang-po. Mkhas Grub Rje’s Fundamentals of the Buddhist Tantras: Rgyud Sde Spyiḥi Rnam Par Gźag Pa Rgyas Par Brjod. Translated by F. D. Lessing and Alex Wayman. Indo-Iranian Monographs 8. The Hague: Mouton, 1968.
• Snellgrove, David L. Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors, 2 vols. Boston: Shambhala, 1987.
• Tadeusz Skorupski, “The Canonical Tantras of the New Schools.” In Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, edited by José Ignacio Cabezón and Roger R. Jackson, 95-110. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.
• Williams, Paul and Anthony Tribe. “Tantric Texts: Classification and Characteristics.” In Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition, 202–217. New York: Routledge, 2000.