Armidale Community Buddhist Centre

The Tantric Way of Purifying One's Views
The second important attitude is the Tantric way of purifying one's views, which means to transform one's ordinary and dualistic views and conceptions into a higher spiritual vision.
For instance, you transform the place where teachings are received from an ordinary classroom into a complete and perfected mandala of the deities. You view the teacher as a pure form of Shen Lha Okar, the Buddha of Compassion, by mentally transforming him from an ordinary person into an enlightened one who has manifested in a human body to guide all sentient beings. You transform your companions and classmates from ordinary beings into deities and goddesses, and believe that they all have love, compassion, and care for all sentient beings.
The purpose of transforming your views into pure visions toward these objects is to realize the extraordinary nature of this experience. This gives you a special reason to receive blessings and powers from the teacher (lama), the enlightened ones (Sangye), the deities (yidam), and the female manifestations of the enlightened ones (khadro), in order to develop your wisdom and stability. This is the essence of the practice of purifying one's view according to the Tantric ways.
-- from Opening the Door to Bvn by Latri Khenpo and Geshe Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche, published by Snow Lion Publications -OPENING THE DOOR TO BÖN