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Trul khor

Tsa lung Trul khor (lit. "magical movement instrument, channels and inner breath currents") known for brevity as Trul khor (lit. "magical instrument" or "magic circle") or "Yantra

Yantra

Yantra are 'instruments'. The meaning is contextual. Much like the word 'instrument' itself. It can stand for symbols, processes, automata, machinery or anything that has structure and organization....
Yoga

Yoga

Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in both Buddhism and Hinduism....
" as Chögyal Namkai Norbu Rinpoche

Rinpoche

Rinpoche or Rimpoche is an honorific title used in Tibetan Buddhism. It literally means "precious one". The title is generally reserved for tulkus and those recognized by the proper authorities within a lineage as "choje lamas" ....
has translated the Tibet

Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
an term into Sanskrit, is a Himalayan tantric

Tantric

Tantric can refer to:*Tantra, especially Hindu Tantra and tantric yoga*Neotantra, a term used to describe the modern, western use of the word Tantra...
discipline which includes breathwork

Breathwork

Breathwork refers to many forms of conscious alteration of breathing, such as hyperventilation or connecting the inhale and exhale, when used within psychotherapy or meditation....
(or pranayama

Pranayama

Pranayama is a Sanskrit word meaning "lengthening of the prana or breath". The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prana, life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath, and "ayama", to lengthen or extend....
), meditative contemplation (or dhyana

Dhyana

Dhyana or jhana in Pali refers to a stage of meditation, which is a subset of samadhi. It is a key concept in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism....
) and precise dynamic movements (or Body work

Body work (alternative medicine)

Bodywork is a term used in alternative medicine or complementary medicine to describe any therapeutic, healing or personal development work which involves some form of touching, energetic work or the physical manipulation of a practically oriented physical and somatics understanding of the body....
) to centre the practitioner (as bindu

Bindu

Bindu is a Sanskrit term meaning "point" or "dot". The feminine case ending is Bindi which denotes a small ornamental, devotional and/or mystical dot that is cosmetically applied or affixed to the forehead in Hinduism....
is core to mandala

Mandala

Mandala is a concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism. The term is of Hinduism origin and appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism....
) and to engender the body-mind

Body-mind

Bodymind is a compound conjunction of body and mind, which, in scientific disciplines, researchers have begun studying in order to move beyond the dualist conceptions of body and mind....
precision of a keened instrument.

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Tsa lung Trul khor (lit. "magical movement instrument, channels and inner breath currents") known for brevity as Trul khor (lit. "magical instrument" or "magic circle") or "Yantra

Yantra

Yoga

Rinpoche

Tibet

Tantric

Tantric can refer to:*Tantra, especially Hindu Tantra and tantric yoga*Neotantra, a term used to describe the modern, western use of the word Tantra...
discipline which includes breathwork

Breathwork

Breathwork refers to many forms of conscious alteration of breathing, such as hyperventilation or connecting the inhale and exhale, when used within psychotherapy or meditation....
(or pranayama

Pranayama

Dhyana

Dhyana or jhana in Pali refers to a stage of meditation, which is a subset of samadhi. It is a key concept in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism....
) and precise dynamic movements (or Body work

Body work (alternative medicine)

Bindu

Mandala

Body-mind

Mindstream

Mindstream is a compound term composed of mind and stream used to translate a term from Buddhist philosophy.The mindstream doctrine, like most Buddhist doctrines, is not homogeneous and shows historical development, different applications according to context and varied definitions employed by different Buddhist traditions....
re-emergence of natural body-mind

Body-mind

Primordial

Primordial may refer to:* Primordial , Irish black metal band* Primordial sea * Primordial elements * Primordialism* Primordial dwarfism* Primordials are characters from the role-playing game Exalted by White Wolf, Inc....
awareness

Awareness

Awareness is a term referring to the ability to perceive, to feel, or to be Consciousness of Event, Object or Pattern, which does not necessarily imply understanding....
or rigpa

Rigpa

Rigpa is the primordial, Nonduality advocated by the Dzogchen and Mahamudra teachings....
(cf. Dzogchen

Dzogchen

According to some schools of Tibetan Buddhism and B?n, Dzogchen is the natural, primordial state or natural condition of every Sentient beings , including every human being....
) by employing the energy of 'tummo

Tummo

Tummo is a practice associated with the subtle body of energy-channels, lung and energy-drops. The practices are taught in a suite of advanced sadhana, such as the Six yogas of Naropa, which are contemplative practices, spiritual energetic work or meditations in the Himalayan traditions of Vajrayana and B?n....
' (Tibetan) to purify.

Trul khor traditionally consists of 108

108 (number)

108 is the natural number following 107 and preceding 109 ....
movements, including bodily movements (or dynamic asana

Asana

Asana is a body position, typically associated with the practice of Yoga, intended primarily to restore and maintain a practitioner's well-being, improve the body's flexibility and vitality, and promote the ability to remain in seated meditation for extended periods....
), incantations (or mantra

Mantra

A mantra can be defined as a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that are considered capable of creating transformation. Their use and type varies according to the school and philosophy associated with the mantra....
), breathwork

Breathwork

Breathwork refers to many forms of conscious alteration of breathing, such as hyperventilation or connecting the inhale and exhale, when used within psychotherapy or meditation....
, and visualization

Visualization

The term visualization may refer to:* Creative Visualization* Educational visualization* Flow visualization* Geovisualization* Illustration...
s, all timed to heart rhythms. The flow or vinyasa

Vinyasa

'Vinyasa' , is a Sanskrit term often employed in relation to certain styles of yoga. The term vinyasa may be broken down into its Sanskritic roots to assist in decoding its meaning....
(Sanskrit) of movements are enlikened to beads on a mala

Japa mala

A Japa mala or mala is a set of beads commonly used by Hindus and Buddhists, usually made from 108 beads, though other numbers, usually divisible by 9, are also used....
. The body postures (or asana

Asana

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and was the political leader of Lhasa-based Tibetan government between the 17th century and 1959....
's summer temple of Lukhang

Lukhang

Lukhang , formally Zongdag Lukhang is the name of a secret temple of His Holiness Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama. Three walls of the temple are covered with murals of yogis engaged in their exercises....
. Trul khor is the fruitful distillation of the confluence of centuries of ancient Bön

Bön

B?n is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, has recently recognized the B?n tradition as the fifth principal spiritual school of Tibet, along with the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug schools of Buddhism, despite the long historical competition of influences between the Bon tradtition and Buddhis...
movements, Indian yogic traditions, and Chinese movement forms (that developed into disciplines such as Tai Chi Chuan

Tai Chi Chuan

Tai chi chuan is an neijia Chinese martial arts often practiced for health reasons. Tai chi is typically practiced for a variety of reasons: its Hard and soft , demonstration competitions, health and longevity....
and Taoist disciplines).

Himalayan physical yogas vary between lineages and the complexity of the practices are not disclosed until a deep level of samaya is realised by the practitioner.

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introduction
Chaoul, M. Alejandro (2003). Yogic practices (rtsarlung ’phr ul ’khor) in the Bon tradition and possible applications as a CIM (complementary and integrative medicine) therapy. Presented at the the Tenth Seminar in 2003 for the International Association for Tibetan Studies. Source: (accessed: February 3, 2008)

Trul khor

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