Path empowerment

path empowerment. The fourfold empowerment that a tantric practitioner takes on their own when practicing Guru Yoga, without depending on anyone or anything else.

Dudjom Rinpoche states:

Using the Guru Yoga and the mandala of the yidam, we receive the four empowerments by ourselves without depending on other conditions. This is the path empowerment.

Name variations

Name variations:

• path empowerment
• self-empowerment
• self-initiation
• empowerment of the path
• etc.

Sources

• Dudjom Rinpoche (2011), A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom: Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala 
• Patrul Rinpoche (1998), Words of My Perfect Teacher, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Altamira Press 

Further reading

Print publications

• Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse (2012), Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices, Boston: Shambhala 

Web publications:

• Path empowerment, Rigpa Shedra Wiki