What is the function and definition of the three bringings? Flashcards

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What is the function of this meditation?

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  1. It helps to overcome ordinary appearances and conceptions
  2. It causes dualistic appearances to subside into emptiness
  3. *It indirectly purifies ordinary death
  4. *It causes the completion stage realization of clear light to ripen
  5. It is a collection of wisdom
  6. *It sows in our mind a powerful potential to attain the actual Truth body of a Buddha in the future
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What is the function of Bringing intermediate state into the path to the enjoyment body?

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  1. It indirectly purifies ordinary intermediate state
  2. It causes the completion stage realization of illusory body to ripen
  3. It sows in our mind a powerful potential to attain the actual Enjoyment body of a Buddha in the future
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What is the function of Bringing rebirth into the path to the emanation body?

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  1. It indirectly purifies ordinary rebirth
  2. It causes the completion stage realization of the gross deity body to ripen
  3. It sows in our mind a powerful potential to attain the actual Emanation body of a Buddha in the future.
  4. It is also the principal method for attaining rebirth in Keajra, Heruka’s pure land.
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What is the definition of the 1st bringing?

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A yoga similar in aspect to the experience of death that has the divine pride of being the Truth body.

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2nd bringing?

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A yoga similar in aspect to the intermediate state, that is attained after bringing death into the path to the Truth body that has the divine pride of being the enjoyment body.

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3rd bringing?

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A yoga similar in aspect to rebirth, that is attained after bringing intermediate state into the path to the enjoyment body, that has the divine pride of being the emanation body.

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