If one has tried his best to remain in the Light, but, because of the drifting prana is unable to hold on, one may then resort to the special teaching on dream-arisings given in the pith-instruction of of the Marpa School.

Footnotes

^244:* It is clear that throughout the text Tsong Khapa is referring to a practical yoga-type discipline, very different from the very philosophical and verbal context of the Anuttara Tantra as presented in most of the occidentally accessible texts, e.g. in the Vow of Mahamudra, for example. That practical teaching and the realization it brings is the true heart of the Anuttara Tantra.--Ed.

^247:* Here is the "entering process of the three consciousnesses" mentioned below. See note . Ed.