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142203 UE Padmavajra’s Secret Accomplishment (2025W)

Instructions on How to Disguise Oneself amongst Those Who Disapprove of Sexual Yoga

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikawissenschaften, Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismusk
Continuous assessment of course work
We 17.12. 11:30-13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14

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Details

max. 24 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Unfortunately, the class on October 8 has to be canceled. I will try to find a replacement!

  • Wednesday 01.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 08.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 15.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 22.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 29.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 05.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 12.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 19.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 26.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 03.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 10.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 07.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Wednesday 14.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
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  • Wednesday 28.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Goal of the LV is the introduction to trantric Buddhist texts and basic philological work. This module explores the Sixth Chapter of Padmavajra's Guhyasiddhi, a central, esoteric Buddhist text. In a little more than hundred verses, Padmavajra, extensively and profoundly, articulates the transgressive "Secret Conduct" (guhyacaryā). Aimed at advanced tantric practitioners, this chapter elaborates the internalization and radical embodiment of Vajrayāna realization through paradox, ritualized "madness," and the overturning of conventional dualities, which is considered the experiential culmination of prior preparatory practices, oriented toward the realization of mahāsukha (Great Bliss) through sexual union, the dissolution of duality, and the manifestation of non-dual awareness embodied in Vajrasattva.

Assessment and permitted materials

A list of resources additional to the edition from which we will read, will be distributed in discussed in the first session.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements for a positive grade: active participation in the course and a paper satisfying the requirements defined by the course instructors. Attendance is compulsory; up to two absences without notice will be excused.

Assessment standard: Every performance component will receive a grade. Active participation and the written paper/translation at the term's end each account for 50% of the course's grade.

In order to pass the seminar, at least 50% of the total points must be achieved. Regular attendance is also required. The reading of the lectures, as indicated for the respective sessions, is obligatory and a prerequisite for active participation in the seminar.
The grading system is structured as follows:
100-91% Very good (1)
90-81% Good (2)
80-65% Satisfactory (3)
64-50% Satisfactory (4)
49-0% Unsatisfactory (5)

Examination topics

Not applicable.

Reading list

This section is so far unpublished and has been edited in Rinpoche, Samdhong and Vrajvallabh Dwivedi (1987) in the compendium "Guhyādi-Aṣṭasiddhisaṃgraha. (Rare Buddhist Text Series No. 1. Sarnath: Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies).

Association in the course directory

MATB 3b UE B

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