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The nine yanas are referred to in the Kulayaraja Tantra and in the General Sutra of the Gathering of All Intentions (Düpa Do), which is the central scripture of Anuyoga.

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The Nine Yana - List

In the Nine Yanas or nine successive vehicles within the Nyingma tradition, the full spectrum of spiritual paths is divided into nine yanas, a system of practice bringing together all the approaches of the Buddha’s teaching into a single comprehensive path to enlightenment.

The Nine Yana

01. The shravaka yana, ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the sutrayana the three outer yanas leading from the origin, i.e. the three yanas related to the outer vehicle of leading from the origin of suffering and the three pitakas of characteristics, basic vehicle.
From the path of renunciation (the determination to be free from of suffering, and the causes of suffering).

02. The pratyekabuddha yana, རང་རྒྱལ་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the sutrayana the three outer yanas leading from the origin, i.e. the three yanas related to the outer vehicle of leading from the origin of suffering and the three pitakas of characteristics, basic vehicle.
From the path of renunciation (the determination to be free from of suffering, and the causes of suffering).

03. The bodhisattva yana, བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the sutrayana the three outer yanas leading from the origin, i.e. the three yanas related to the outer vehicle of leading from the origin of suffering and the three pitakas of characteristics, mahayana vehicle.
From the path of renunciation (the determination to be free from of suffering, and the causes of suffering).

04. The yana of kriya tantra, བྱ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the tantrayana the three yanas of vedic asceticism, i.e. the three yanas related to the inner vehicle of Vedic asceticism and the three outer classes of tantra, vajrayana.
From the path of purification.

05. The yana of charya tantra, སྤྱོད་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the tantrayana the three yanas of vedic asceticism, i.e. the three yanas related to the inner vehicle of Vedic asceticism and the three outer classes of tantra, vajrayana.
From the path of purification.

06. The yana of yoga tantra, རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the tantrayana the three yanas of vedic asceticism, i.e. the three yanas related to the inner vehicle of Vedic asceticism and the three outer classes of tantra, vajrayana.
From the path of transformation.

07. The yana of mahayoga, རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the tantrayana the three yanas of powerful transformative methods, i.e. the three yanas related to the secret vehicle of powerful transformative methods and the three inner classes of tantra, vajrayana.
From the path of transformation.

08. The yana of anuyoga, རྗེས་སུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the tantrayana the three yanas of powerful transformative methods, i.e. the three yanas related to the secret vehicle of powerful transformative methods and the three inner classes of tantra, vajrayana.
From the path of transformation.

09. The yana of atiyoga, ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་.

From the tantrayana the three yanas of powerful transformative methods, i.e. the three yanas related to the secret vehicle of powerful transformative methods and the three inner classes of tantra, vajrayana.
From the path of self-liberation.

Synonyms/tags: thegs pa rim pa dgu




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