Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines
Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 November 2000
- ISBN 9780195133141
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages434 pages
- Size 205x129x28 mm
- Weight 494 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 halftones 0
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Short description:
This book includes seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts that were first published in English in 1935. A companion to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, it is illustrated with photographs, yoga paintings and manuscripts, and contains some of the principal meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers in attaining Right knowledge and enlightenment. Special commentaries precede each translated text and a preface contrasts Buddhism with European concepts of religion, philosophy and science. For this new reissue, Donald S Lopez Jr writes a critical foreword, to update and contextualize the work as historical artifact contributing to the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism to the West.
MoreLong description:
Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars like W. Y. Evans-Wentz, the late editor of this volume, that triggered our ongoing occidental fascination with such phenomena as yoga, Zen, and meditation. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines--a companion to the popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is also published by Oxford in an authoritative Evans-Wentz edition--is a collection of seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts that first appeared in English in 1935.
In these pages, amid useful photographs and reproductions of yoga paintings and manuscripts, readers will encounter some of the principal meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers throughout the ages in the attainment of Right Knowledge and Enlightenment. Special commentaries precede each translated text, and a comprehensive introduction contrasts the tenets of Buddhism with European notions of religion, philosophy, and science. Evans-Wentz has also included a body of orally transmitted traditions and teachings that he received firsthand during his fifteen-plus years of study in the Orient, findings that will interest any student of anthropology, psychology, comparative religion, or applied Mahayana Yoga. These seven distinct but intimately related texts will grant any reader a full and complete view of the spiritual teachings that still inform the life and culture of the East. As with Evans-Wentz's other three Oxford titles on Tibetan religion, which are also appearing in new editions, this third edition of Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines features a new foreword by Donald S. Lopez, author of the recent Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West.
Table of Contents:
Preface to the First Edition
Descripton of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Yogic Commentary
General Introduction
Book I: The Supreme Path of Discipleship
Book II: The Nirvanic Path: the Yoga of the Great Symbol
Book III: The Path of Knowledge: the Yoga of the 6 Doctrines
Book IV: The Path of Transference: The Yoga of the Consciousness-Transference
Book V: The Path of the Mystic Sacrifice: The Yoga of Subduing the Lower Self
Book VI: The Path of the Five Wisdoms
Book VII: The Path of the Transcendental Wisdom: The Yoga of Voidness
