Previously published as "The Dalai Lamas on Tantra"


Over the past five hundred years the Dalai Lamas have contributed works of vital importance to the library of tantric literature. Glenn Mullin, a translator and scholar of Tibetan texts and acknowledged authority on the Dalai Lamas, has collected many of these writings here for the first time. His introduction situates the tantric tradition within overall Buddhist practice. The sweeping survey by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama which follows treats all the principal Tibetan Buddhist tantric systems found in all four categories of tantras.

The wonderful texts that follow include works on the powerful and profound systems of Avalokitshvara, Kalachakra, Chakrasamvara, Hayagriva and Yamantaka, as well as other less widely known practices such as the Six Yogas of Niguma and living on the essence of flowers. For the reader wishing to encounter Tantric Buddhism through authentic sources, this book is a must.

From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on Tantra, Glenn Mullin, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 2007, 350 Pages, $22.95

Glenn H. Mullin is an internationally renowned Tibetologist, author, and expert on Buddhist meditation. Glenn lived in Dharamsala, India, the home of the Dalai Lama, for many years, where he studied Tibetan language, literature, yoga, and meditation under twenty-five of the greatest masters of Tibet. He is the author of over fifteen books on Buddhist topics and has led many pilgrimages to Nepal and Tibet in the last five years. He now divides his time between writing, lecturing, giving workshops, and leading pilgrimages to the power places of Central Asia.

	Contents:Dalai Lamas on Tantra
	Preface	vi
	Introduction	1
CHAPTER ONE:	The Thirteenth Dalai Lama'sA Brief Guide to the Buddhist Tantras	21
CHAPTER TWO:	The Seventh Dalai Lama's Instructional Poem on the Stages in Practice of the Heruka Chakrasamvara Tantra	67
CHAPTER THREE:	The Second Dalai Lama's Treatise on the Six Yogas of Niguma	83
CHAPTER FOUR:	The Third Dalai Lama's The Tantric Yogas of the Bodhisattva of Compassion	157
CHAPTER FIVE:	The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Concerning the Kalachakra Initiations	175
CHAPTER SIX:	The First Dalai Lama's Notes on the Two Yogic Stages of Glorious Kalachakra	201
CHAPTER SEVEN:	The Fifth Dalai Lama's Hayagriva-Sealed-in-Secrecy Methods for Healing (as read by the Great Thirteenth)	253
CHAPTER EIGHT:	The Second Dalai Lama's The Two Yogic Stages of the Vajrabhairava Tantra with a commentary by Lama Lobzang Chinpa	289
CHAPTER NINE:	The Second Dalai Lama's Living on the Essence of Flowers	317
CHAPTER TEN:	A Tantric Prayer by the Eighth Dalai Lama	333
	Notes	341
	Suggested Reading	349