The Light of Wisdom, the Conclusion, presents detailed explanations of the activities of a Vajra Master and Buddhist practices to clear away hindrances on the path and enhance realization. The book is a combination of three texts:The root text, The Gradual Path of the Wisdom Ess…
This title offers advice and encouragement from a leading spiritual teacher and popular author on how to approach the foundational practices of Tibetan Buddhism. For anyone interested in Buddhist practice and philosophy, the book gives detailed instruction and friendly and inspi…
"This book is the first comprehensive study of the "holy madmen" of Tibetan Buddhism--tantric yogins who achieved a degree of saintliness through shocking, norm-overturning behavior"--"Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-…
"The Vajrayana system of Tibetan Buddhism has many techniques, few difficulties and is meant for people of higher capabilities. Because each of us possesses the enlightened essence, when many people participate in a great accomplishment practice, then many enlightened essences a…
Treatise on Tantric Buddhism; includes Yogaratnamālā or Hevājra Pañjikā, commentary by Kr̥ṣṇavajrapāda, 11th cent.
Treatise on Tantric Buddhism; includes Yogaratnamālā or Hevājra Pañjikā, commentary by Kr̥ṣṇavajrapāda, 11th cent.
'Naked Seeing' investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bon and Buddhist traditions: practices in which a meditator spends long periods of time in a dark room or gazing at the open sky, with the goal of experiencing luminous visions. The book examines these practices in two m…