Yongs su bsngo ba: 1 definition

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Source: MDPI Books: The Ocean of Heroes

yongs su bsngo ba (ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བ) refers to the “complete dedication of merit” and represents one of the Seven Best Offerings, according to the Bohitā commentary of the 10th-century Ḍākārṇava-tantra: one of the last Tibetan Tantric scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition consisting of 51 chapters.—Accordingly, “[...] Having made offerings of the nectar and so on and [articles] originated in himself through the moon[rise] and sunrise, and having performed the confession of sin and others [e.g., ‘complete dedication of merit’—yongs su bsngo ba], he should reflect on compassion and so on. Then, [having made] himself being of the nature of emptiness, he should contemplate [the mantra of] yogaśuddha (“being purified by yoga”) [...]”.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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