Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s6.t7.4

v1.c7.s6.t7.4

Besides great hand seal, Kagyu sect promotes specific cultivation of "six doctrines of Naropa" which originated from Tantric doctrines inherited from Indian Master Naropa. Great hand seal and doctrines of Naropa are inseparably interconnected. Six doctrines of Naropa are composed of six cultivation doctrines advanced gradually in the due order from the shallower to the deeper. Firstly, dharma attainment is to obtain the goal of Vajra Dharani by developing the natural intelligence of bliss and emptiness of a cultivator; secondly, vision body attainment is to obtain reward of perfect Buddha's body by developing natural intelligence of immediate voidness and non-differentiation of a cultivator; thirdly, dream attainment is to prove and realise the true reality of empty self-nature by developing natural intelligence of awareness of voidness; fourthly, bright attainment is to obtain the two goals of utmost enlightenment and absolute reality by developing natural intelligence of complete voidness of a cultivator; fifthly, intermediate attainment is to obtain ultimate release by developing natural intelligence of the three periods of a cultivator; sixthly, phowa attainment is to obtain achievement of Buddha's body by developing natural intelligence of nondifferentiation of a cultivator.