Tibetan Buddhist Deity Cultural Studies

Yidam(Tutelary deity) is a very important culture concept in the tibetan culture and tibetan buddhism culture. Yidam not only hold a place of great consequence in the tibetan buddhism meditation system but also is a important requisite in the tibetan religious culture. The conception of three mysterious blessing is a one of the remarkable important part in the tibetan buddhism meditation system, yidam is both very concrete subject of visualization and also is metal state or cause of meditation at the same time.The meditation called by yidam yoga is the meditation system which is apply yidam's appearance to practice of visualization. Tibetan yidam culture contains art, philosophy, meditation culture and all that as the synthetic culture which have comprehensive range comparatively. Among the rest, yidam meditation culture is been starting point on various culture which are related with yidam. This is explaining that called by yidam's concept is being for do the practice of three mysterious blessing originally and also is describing the others various culture which are related with yidam were came into being and have been developed from here. Therefore, tibetan yidam culture could say to the basic culture of the others related with yidam's culture.This thesis want to discuss about such as yidam meditationsystem which is to be yidam culture's groundwork, and about conception substance which is related. with yidam meditation system. At the same time, try to discuss about concept of yidam's meaning and it's effect. I think, through this kind of study could get a general understanding for yidam's concept and substance, also could take a outline for yidam yoga system's basic formation shape, this is what the purpose and significance of this thesis.The thesis gave the first consideration to 《mizongdaocidiguanglun》 , have made a study of both yidam's yoga meditation system and conception, culture in accordance with the analysis for yidam in 《mizongdaocidiguanglun》 . 《mizongdaocidiguanglun》 analyzed Esoteric buddhism into four grade of tantra as like Empowerment of the Action Tantra. Performance Tantra, Yoga Tantra, the Anuttarayoga Tantra. This thesis want to make discuss about yidam conception with divided it into four grade of tantra according as 《mizongdaocidiguanglun》 's division. This thesis's organization is as like following. chapter 2: about basic constitute part of yidam or the substance andconception of three mysterious blessing chapter 3: about Empowerment of the action tantra's yoga of fourportion's true word concentration chapter 4: about Performance tantra's yidam yoga-which are existingform yoga and Lacking form yoga chapter 5: about Yoga tantra's yidam yoga, divided into existing formyoga and Lacking form yogachapter 6:about the Anuttarayoga tantra's yidam -Generation stage, substance and special feature of yidam,the connection of between yidam with emptinessIn the process of discussion about four kind of tantra's yidam yoga, not only could get a understanding that yidam is a very comprehensive concept in esoteric buddhism, but also could get a understanding yidam has extremely important place in three kind of low grade tantra, not to mention of the anuttarayoga tantra. That is why could say whole of esoteric buddhism yoga meditation system is a huge yoga-system by have been builted around yidam. And at the same time, we can catch many of buddha and bodhisattva of exoteric buddhism also frequently appears on the four grade of tantra yoga as yidam. So either buddha and bodhisattva or Vajrabhairava and all those, if be deified on three mysterious blessing yoga meditation system as a subject of visualization, then all of them can be called by yidam.Through this study could discovered that yidam yoga is also consistent in the connection with Great vehicle's observing emptiness. esoteric buddhism have it that yidam also is "the lack of inherent unchanging essence's emptiness", and also have regarded the one of thegreatest object of yidam yoga as realization of emptiness through control over the various egoistic attachmant.