Nine Yanas (Tib. ཐེག་པ་དགུ, tekpa gu, Wyl. theg pa dgu) or nine successive vehicles (Tib. ཐེག་པ་རིམ་པ་དགུ་, tekpa rimpa gu, Wyl. theg pa rim pa dgu) — within the Nyingma tradition, the full spectrum of spiritual paths is divided into nine yanas, a system of practice bringing together all the approaches of the Buddha’s teaching into a single comprehensive path to enlightenment.

{]] | align="center" border="1" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="1" | colspan="9" align="center" | '''The Nine Yanas''' | - | colspan="3" align="center" | [[sutrayana ]] | colspan="6" align="center" | [[tantrayana ]] | - | colspan="3" align="center" | the [[three outer yanas leading from the origin,<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the outer vehicle of leading from the origin [of suffering] and the three pitakas of characteristics ]] | colspan="3" align="center" | the [[three yanas of vedic asceticism,<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the inner vehicle of Vedic asceticism and the three outer classes of tantra ]] | colspan="3" align="center" | the [[three yanas of powerful transformative methods,<br/>i.e. the three yanas related to the secret vehicle of powerful transformative methods and the three inner tantras | three inner classes of tantra ]] | - | colspan="2" align="center" | [[basic vehicle ]] | colspan="1" align="center" | [[mahayana ]] | colspan="6" align="center" | [[vajrayana<ref>The vajrayana is not a separate vehicle from mahayana, but actually belongs within mahayana as a distinctive vehicle of skilful means.</ref> ]] | - | colspan="3" align="center" | path of renunciation<ref>This division into four paths is mentioned in ''The Nine Yanas, from Dzogchen & Padmasambhava'', page 23.</ref> | colspan="2" align="center" | path of purification | colspan="3" align="center" | path of transformation | colspan="1" align="center" | path of self-liberation<ref>Wyl. ''rang grol lam.</ref> | - | align="center" | 1. <br/>the [[shravaka yana <br/> ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 2. <br/>the [[pratyekabuddha yana <br/> རང་རྒྱལ་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 3. <br/>the [[bodhisattva yana <br/> བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 4. <br/>the yana of [[kriya tantra <br/> བྱ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 5. <br/>the yana of [[charya tantra <br/> སྤྱོད་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 6. <br/>the yana of [[yoga tantra <br/> རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 7. <br/>the yana of [[mahayoga <br/> རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 8. <br/>the yana of [[anuyoga <br/> རྗེས་སུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | align="center" | 9. <br/>the yana of [[atiyoga <br/> ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་ ]] | - | } ==Origin== The nine yanas are referred to in the ''[[Kulayaraja Tantra (Kunje Gyalpo) and in the Düpa Do | General Sutra of the Gathering of All Intentions (Düpa Do), which is the central scripture of Anuyoga.