Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Tibet has also the tradition of initiations in the
lower-three yogas and there is no need to get them from
Japan.
Also, within the four initiations of anuttarayoga, there is
a distribution of practices. After one has already
received all the four initiations, one may practice on
three levels, keeping the same yidam but with the
different methods taught in mahayoga (in the first
initiation), anuyoga (covering the second and third
initiations), and Atiyoga (practiced in the fourth
initiation). The differences are not explained here since
they are not meaningful unless one has practiced to that
level.
3. Do you know, personally, any cases of yogis who
have practiced the Anuttarayoga meditations,
leaving no physical body behind them at the time of
death? (See Ch. XII, H.)
I have never seen any myself but I have heard of them
from my guru and read of cases in biographies. After all,
we have not seen Gautama Buddha but we believe that
he lived on this earth.
What I have seen is the body of Orgyan Yeshe, a
Nyingmapa lama. After death, his body retracted into a
compact mass about one foot in diameter which could
easily be held by a disciple in one hand. He was a lama
of a sort not easy to find. I cannot say that he was very
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