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Our Yoga: Buddhist Yoga
Taught in three major forms, the Buddhist forms of yoga include:
- Hinayana (Small Vehicle)
- Mahayana (Great Vehicle)
- Vajrayana (Diamond Vehicle) or Tantric Buddhism.
The word and concept of yoga are thoroughly familiar to practitioners of Tibetan Vajrayana, as the tantric scriptures understand the Buddhist dharma as a yogic path. The supreme class of Tantra, in fact, is known as anuttara-yoga-tantra or “Highest Yoga Tantra”. The texts belonging to this class widely employ the term yoga and often call the Tantric practitioners a yogin. It is this branch of Buddhism, which, under the leadership of the Dalai Lama, is attracting a growing number of seekers in Western countries.
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