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Refuge for the Unborn

Yeats Converted: Vajrayana in Verse

forty poems plus one

Poems in chronological order, following Yeats’ collections
Titles are for conversions with (numbers) indicating
the original poem in the Collected Works

1893: The Rose
1    The Tantrika and the Terton (18)
2    The Ruse of the World (20)
3    In Misty Oddiyan (24)
4    Where Age is Not (28)
5    Who with the Tathagata Goes (32)
6    The Lament of the High-Born Lama (35)
7    Two Kayas (37)

1899: The Wind Among the Reeds
8      The Shakti Cluster (40)
9      Non-Originated Look (41)
10    Mudras (42)
11    The Song of the Albino Bard (48)
12    Lotus of the Heart (50)
13    The Tantrika Celebrates Loss (51)
14    The Terton to His Beloved (56)
15    The Terton to His Consort (57)
16    Night Tells of Mortal Beauty (63)
17    The Terton at the Edge (64)
18    The Terton Finds Humility Among the Constellations (75)

1904: The Seven Woods
19    Lotus Born (83)

1910: The Green Helmet
20    Dream Yoga (91)
21    Consort Yoga (98)

1914: Responsabilities
22    January 2009 (115)
23    The Three Yogis (122)
24    The Omen Before Dawn (125)
25    I. The Witch (128) and II. The Peacock (129)
26    I.  Dakini Dancing (131) and II. Two Seconds After (132)
27    The Lineage (139)

1911 The Wild Swans at Coole
28    Tandem Desire (143)
29    The Terton Forestalls Death (145)
30    Redhats (154)
41    After Rejection (157)
32    The Dawn (158)
33    The Dugpa and the Moon (184)
34    The Lama and the Dugpa (185)
35    Two Songs of a Dugpa (186)
36    Another Song of the Dugpa (187)
37    A Double Vision of Jan Kerouac (188)

1921: Michael Robartes and the Dancer
38    Sadhana for My Shakti (201)

1928: The Tower
39    Kalachakra (214)
40    This Nirmanakaya (220)
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March 25, 2009