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Bezig met laden... The Tibetan book of the great liberation : or, The method of realizing Nirvāṇa through knowing the mind : preceded by an epitome of Padma-Sambhava's biography and followed by Guru Phadampa Sangay's teachingsdoor W. Y. Evans-Wentz
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Certainly an epic, but I cannot vouch for the total honesty of the adventures ascribed to Padme Sambava. The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen, as shown here, by means of knowing the One Mind, the cosmic All-Consciousness, without recourse to the postures, breathings, and other techniques associated with the lower yogas. The original text for this volume belongs to the Bardo Thödol series of treatises concerning various ways of achieving transcendence, a series that figures into the Tantric school of the Mahayana. If you read John Reynold's Self-Liberation: Seeing with Naked Awareness, you'll find out just how much misconception happened due to Evans-Wentz. It followed that Carl Jung misinterpreted many things as the result of this book, which led to further removal from the truth. Wentz was not a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, didn't study under lamas, and did not speak the language. Nor was he a practitioner of Dzogchen, the topic of the text he was interpreting. The main point is that due to Evans-Wentz, Jung and many others followed by believing that Tibetan Buddhism in general and Dzogchen in particular are equated with a Neo-Platonic and subsequently Metaphysical Christianity wherein is is postulated that there is a One Mind, One God, One Creator. Buddhism purports no such thing. Read Reynolds and Namkhai Norbu, then decide for yourself. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mah=ay=ana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen, as shown here, by means of knowing the One Mind, the cosmic All-Consciousness, without recourse to the postures, breathings, and other techniques associated with the lower yogas. The original text for this volume belongs to the Bardo Th�dol series of treatises concerning various ways of achieving transcendence, a series that figures into the Tantric school of the Mah=ay=ana. Authorship of this particular volume is attributed to the legendary Padma-Sambhava, who journeyed from India to Tibet in the 8th century, as the story goes, at the invitation of a Tibetan king. Padma-Sambhava's text per se is preceded by an account of the great guru's own life and secret doctrines. It is followed by the testamentary teachings of the Guru Phadampa Sangay, which are meant to augment the thought of the other gurus discussed herein. Still more useful supplementary material will be found in the book's introductory remarks, by its editor Evans-Wentz and by the eminent psychoanalyst C. G. Jung. The former presents a 100-page General Introduction that explains several key names and notions (such as Nirv=ana, for starters) with the lucidity, ease, and sagacity that are this scholar's hallmark; the latter offers a Psychological Commentary that weighs the differences between Eastern and Western modes of thought before equating the "collective unconscious" with the Enlightened Mind of the Buddhist. As with the other three volumes in the late Evans-Wentz's critically acclaimed Tibetan series, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions, this book also features a new Foreword by Donald S. Lopez. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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