Highest Yoga Tantra
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Highest Yoga Tantra (Skt. Anuttarayoga/Yoganiruttara/Yogānuttara Tantra[1]; Tib. :|བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་རྒྱུད་, Wyl. rnal 'byor bla na med pa'i rgyud) is the highest of the four classes of tantra.
According to the Sarma tradition, Highest Yoga Tantras are divided into Mother Tantras, Father Tantras and Non-dual Tantras.
The supreme quick path to enlightenment. The teachings on Highest Yoga Tantra are Buddha’s ultimate intention.
In the Nyingma tradition, the Anuttarayoga Tantra corresponds to the three inner tantras of Mahayoga, Anuyoga and Atiyoga.
Footnotes
- ↑ Despite the popularity of Anuttarayoga as a so-called 'back translation' from Tibetan into Sanskrit, this is not attested to in any original Indian text, and scholarsTemplate:Who generally believe the correct form to be yoganiruttara or yogānuttara.Template:Source
