condensed teaching based upon the essential meaning of the Guhyagarbha Tantra combined with the views expressed in the anu and ati yoga teachings. Many great masters have said that the zhi-khro teachings are the inner tantra of the inner tantra. In this case we're not making distinctions among the various inner tantras, nor between the creation and completion stages, but joining them all together. This is the union of rigpa and emptiness, the oneness of birth, death, and life experiences. There is no basis for discriminating because all are aspects of one true nature. Nothing is rejected or exclusively accepted. This teaching is known as the one that unifies everything into a single state. Janet Gyatso (2006) relates how Zhitro was received by Yeshe Tsogyal through the wang of a Vidyadhara: She... is robbed by seven bandits whom she then converts to Buddhist practice. She proceeds with the bandits on a magic carpet to the place Oḍḍiyāna where they all receive peaceful and wrathful deity practice (zhitro) initiations from a vidyādhara, who gives her the secret name Kharchen Za and cavorts in bliss with her. See also Bardo Bardo Thodol Guhyagarbha Tantra Six realms Reality in Buddhism Tantra techniques (Vajrayana) Notes External links Shitro 100 Deity Practice: Prayers for the Dying and Understanding the Bardo The True Foundation of Practice: By Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Significant detail and listing of the Hundred_peaceful_and_wrathful_deities with their Wylie transcription The death ritual as guidance through the Bardo. "Secret Doctrienes of the tibetan book of the dead", Detlef Ingo Lauf, Shambala 1977 Dzogchen texts Dzogchen practices Nyingma tantras Tibetan words and phrases