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Buddhist Philosophy: A Perspective from the Nyingma Tradition
By: Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche
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This volume consists of edited transcripts of a series of talks given at the Kagyu E-Vam Bud
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Chinese Hevajratantra
By: CH. Willemen
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The Scriptural Text of the Ritual of the Great King of the Teaching the Adamantine one with Great Compassion and Knowledge of the Void
"The Hevajratantra, the well-known Anuttarayogatantra, about 'unsurpassed yoga', is a direct successor of the Tattvasamgraha, a Yogatantra. It was translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in the eleventh century. The Tibetan version dates from that same period. During the Yuan Dynasty in China (1279-1368), the Mongol emperor Qublai was initiated into this tradition. The Tibetan Sa-skya school, for which the Hevajratantra is a central text, was the leading Buddhist school during the Yuan period. The present book is a first translation of the Chinese text into English, shedding light on the Chinese version of a well-known Indo-Tibetan text. The mantras contain Apabhramsa, and the text seems at times quite different from the Sanskrit original. The Chinese translators offer a text which remains true to its contents, but which is at the same time acceptable to the Chinese milieu of the eleventh century. This diplomatic effort explains many discrepancies, which were no problem to the initiate." (jacket)
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Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen
By: Namkhai Norbu, Chogyal
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Chogyal Namkhai Norbu examines the spiritual path from the viewpoint of Dzogchen. He interweaves his life story with Dzogchen teachings, making them accessible through his living example. He discusses his education and how he met his principal master who showed him the real meaning of "direct introduction to Dzogchen."
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Kalachakra Tantra Initiation
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In the summer of 2000 His Holiness the Dalai Lama traveled to the monastery in Spiti, high in the Himalayas, near the Tibetan border, to give the complete Kalachakra teachings to thousands. The higher meditations of the Kalachakra Tantra were highly secret, but because of past and future events, there is now a tradition of giving the initiation to large public gatherings.
The Kalachakra initiation has been passed from generation to generation for thousands of years until the present day. His Holiness received the initiations and the transmission of teachings on the Creation and Completion Stages from his Vajra Teacher Kyabje Ling Dorje Chang, the Ninety-seventh Patriarch to Tsong Khapa's Throne, and the transmission of the Commentary to the Root Tantra from Serkhong Tukse Rinpoche.
Mystic Fire Video and our production company, Hither Hills, has followed closely the unfolding of the Dalai Lama's teachings for some years now. We have published, edited and recorded many of His Holiness' Buddhist teachings in the west. This event will make the library of the teachings complete. Naturally, when we heard that he would be giving this unprecedented complete transmission of the Kalachakra, we were interested in participating in its documentation.
We found an able partner in His Holiness' Foundation for Universal Responsibility, and embarked upon what has become a fruitful collaboration. This is the first ever in-depth recording of the Kalachakra teachings and initiations.
(A 7-hour Mystic Fire Video DVD
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Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement
By: Ronald Davidson
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Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism -especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms -the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement in early medieval India, where it developed as a response to, and in some ways an example of, the feudalization of Indian society. Drawing on primary documents -many translated for the first time -from Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tibetan, Bengali, and Chinese, Ronald Davidson shows how changes in medieval Indian society, including economic and patronage crises, a decline in women´s participation, and the formation of large monastic orders, led to the rise of the esoteric tradition in India that became the model for Buddhist cultures in China, Tibet, and Japan.
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Kalacakratantra: The Chapter on the Individual together with the Vimalaprabha
By: Vesna Wallace
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This is the first complete English translation of the fourth chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratantra text, and its eleventh-century commentary, the Stainless Light (Vimalaprabha), often accorded pride of place as the first volume of the Tibetan Tanjur. This chapter describes in detail the Buddhist tantric practice of the stage of generation, including the instructions on the protection of the place of practice, the meditative practices of the origination of the body and the deities abiding in the body, the yogic practices of the stage of generation, and diverse mundane sadhanas designed to induce the mundane siddhis. The translation is supplemented with copious annotations and references to Tibetan commentaries and other esoteric Buddhist works. It also includes the first critical edition of the Mongolian version of the fourth chapter.
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Kalachakra Tantra
By: Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
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The Kalachakra initiation has now been given in the
West on a number of occasions, yet authentic teachings of this ancient tradition remain rare. The present book is a commentary by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, which contains explanations and advice concerning the various commitments and initial practices peculiar to the Kalachakra system within the context of Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahayana Buddhism in general.
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Maha Vairocana Abhisambodhi Tantra
By: Hodge, Stephen, Tr.
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With Buddhaguhya's Commentary
During the last thirty years there has been a revolution in the understanding and appreciation of the Buddhist tantras in the West. [...] This new interest in the Buddhist tantras still has many limitations and unfortunately a detailed description of the development of tantric thought and practices is far from being complete. [...]
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Principles of Buddhist Tantra: A Discourse on Cittavisuddhi-prakarana of Aryadeva
By: Mathew Varghese
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This work is a textual based discourse on the Cittavisuddhi-prakarana of Aryadeva, a seminal text which describes the principle and philosophy of Buddhist Tantra. The dispute on the question of Tantric meditative practices having any philosophical foundation or whether those practices have been introduced into the ethico-religious praxis of various religious traditions as a later introduction is a continuing discussion. In this work, it is trying to prove that the introduction of Tantra into Madhyamika philosophy is a natural development and it is proved beyond doubt by reviewing an important work in the Buddhist tradition written by Aryadeva, the Cittavisuddhi-prakarana. The unique dialectical method introduced and used by the Madhyamikas to interpret their philosophy and the conception of sunyata is the guiding principle in this regard. Madhyamika envisages that the conception of sunyata can be interpreted as the proper understanding of the insubstantial nature of object of the world (dharma-nairatmya) and the insubstantial nature of the subjective self which perceives such objects of the world (pudgala-nairatmya). The dialectics advanced by the Madhyamika is efficient in deconstructing the substantiality of the phenomenal world of objects, but that is effectively possible only after reconstructing the notion of a substantive self using Tantric spiritual practices. The sunyata as the conception of dharma-nairatmya is achieved through reconstructing the substantive notion of the phenomenal world using dialectics, while it as the conception of pudgala-nairatmya is achieved using Tantric spiritual practices.
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Pure Appearance, Restricted
By: Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Tantric Revisionings, New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion
By: Geoffrey Samuel
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Tantric Revisionings present stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern western societies. Geoffrey Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach, seeking to locate and understand religion in its social and cultural context. The question of the relation between 'popular' (folk, domestic, village, 'shamanic') religion and elite (literary, textual, monastic) religion forms a recurring theme through these studies. Six chapters have not been previously published; the previously published studies included are in publications which are difficult to locate in major specialist libraries.
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Tantrik Traditions in Tibet
Ramchandra Rao, S. K.
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The book contains two parts. Part One is on Tantrik Foundations and includes chapters on Bon and Buddhism, The Indian Background, The Tibetan Genius, Definitive Tantrik Texts, and Path of Enlightenment. Part Two deals with Tantra in Practice. The chapters in this part are The Tibetan Outlook, Guru-Yoga, Tantra-Yoga, Dhyana, Darsana, and Torch Bearers of Tradition.
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Yoga of Tibet, The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra-2 and 3
By: Tsong-ka-pa
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The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra û part 2 & 3 by Tsong-ka-pa, details the practices of Action and Performance Tantra. Special deity yoga techniques for the development of the heart, mind and physical form of a Buddha are presented in a coherent series of yogic exercises. The mudras (hand gestures) that accompany the meditations are clearly illustrated.
A Supplement by Jeffrey Hopkins outlines in detail the structure of Action Tantra practices as well as the need for development.of special yogic powers.
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