DISC-0019 / ITEM-0011
Highest yoga tantra empowerments and samaya commitments
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana) · Tibet / Himalaya / worldwide
- Disclosure date
- 1959
- Date precision
- Year
- Disclosure method
- Academic research
- Extent
- Full
- Record review
- Unreviewed
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Restricted material and access
Initiation ceremonies (abhiṣeka) that authorise a disciple to practise a particular tantric deity system, together with the vows that go with them and the tantras and commentaries those practices rely on.
- Material type
- Initiatory rite
- Restricted to
- Disciples who have received the empowerment from a qualified teacher
- Restriction mechanism
- vow, grade_requirement
- Stated reason
- Practice without empowerment and a qualified teacher is held to be ineffective or harmful; samaya binds the disciple to secrecy
- Tradition origins
- 8th century (transmission to Tibet)
Recorded practice status
Practiced
Provisional: no dated status evidence is linked.
- Status as of
- Not recorded
- Status claims
- Not recorded
Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.
What this disclosure covers
Translation of the Sanskrit Hevajra Tantra; not the oral instructions that accompany it.
The source
The Hevajra Tantra: A Critical Study (SRC-0016; authenticity: Unassessed)
- Author
- David L. Snellgrove
- Original publication
- 1959
- Linked edition
- Not recorded
- Format
- Book
- Provenance
- scholarship
- Rights of source work
- Copyrighted
- Identifiers
- ol:OL9330961W
- Source content hash
- Not recorded
Two volumes: introduction and translation; Sanskrit and Tibetan texts.
Claims about this item
These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.
No claims are recorded for this item.
Evidence qualifications
SRC-0016 · source_authenticity_unassessed: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.SRC-0016 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.DISC-0019 · record_unreviewed: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.ITEM-0011 · status_without_dated_evidence: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
Item notes
Some empowerments, such as Kālacakra, are given by the Dalai Lama to very large public audiences.