Giving the Concise Metaphysical Basis specifically required to Raise Contemplative Inquiry, which is essential for the activation of Intuitive Insight into the true nature of Existence, this edition presents Ten Principal Texts in translation, spanning a period of composition roughly from 350 to 1040 C.E., and covering all the important doctrines of the Yoga Tradition. Included in this edition are additional chapters by the author/translator explaining the origins, epistemology, general history and hermeneutics of the Tradition, with elucidation of the key points of the root text Arya-Gambhira-samdhinirmocana-sutra, the source instruction for the entire Buddhist Yoga tradition. Included is a brief comparative study of the technical differences between Madhyamaka and Cittamatra tenets. The aim behind publishing this text is to assist the aspiring seeker of Truth on the path of mystical Vision, especially revealed in the doctrine of direct recognition and instantaneous awakening.

Principal Yogacara Texts: Indo-Tibetan Sources of Dzogchen Mahamudra, Rodney P. Devenish, Lulu.com, Paperback, 210 pages, $22.00

Rodney P. Devenish is Spiritual Director of the Dharma Fellowship of His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa and co-founder of the Hermitage, Denman Island, BC Canada. He has been teaching meditation, personally guiding individuals as they develop their meditation practice for over forty years. For a ten year period as a Buddhist monk, Lama Rodney spent his long winters in isolated meditation retreat in the snowy wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, where he completed the Kagyu practices given him by his teacher Namgyal Rinpoche, with particular focus on the Six Yogas of Naropa and Mahamudra.