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ZOLTÁN CSER Samadhi of Completion: Secret Tibetan Yoga Illuminations from the Qing Court”! According to the illustrated text, the structure of the practice is the following: — preliminary practices (11): 3 to expel the impure air (Tib. r/ung ro), 4 developing inner heat and 4 radiating lights from the different points of the body (Bodymandala practice) — main practices (96): 32 yogic postures in normal order, 32 in reversed order, 32 in random order At the end on the 108" image we can see Dragpa Gyaltsen and then there is 9 more images describing the completion meditational practices of Cakrasamvara, Yamantaka, Guhyasamaja and Amitayus tantric cycles. The whole practice is like a rosary beads practiced sequentially one movement after the other. According to the Buddhist tantric system (anuttara tantras, such like Hevajra, Cakrasamvara, Yamantaka, Guhyasamaja and so on) if someone, a practitioner was successful completing the above yogic practices, generating inner heat, bliss, then it was possible for him to do consort practices to enchant and integrate the bliss into meditation (but prior to these practices sexual yogas were not allowed).” Example From the original text (Kya’i rdo rje’i rnal ‘byor las rtsa rlung; p. 4.): kya’i rdo rje’i rnal ‘byor las rtsa rlung ‘dzin pa’i mngon du rlung ro bud pai tshul ni rnam snang gi chos bdun la gnas de bya’o From the Hevajra Yoga, to establish the rtsa rlung channels and winds (prana) expel the dead (impure) wind (prdna) in the “Seven point position of Vairocana.” 2 Re — ji BiB E17 SK — jiu jing ding — qing gong zang mi yu jia xiu xing bao dian. Forbidden City Publishing House, Beijing 2009 [Samadhi of completion: Secret Tibetan yoga illuminations from the Qing court]. 340
