Author : Shinichi Tsuda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Tantras
ISBN : 0893460885
Samvarodaya-Tantra
Shinichi Tsuda
Samvarodaya Tantra
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The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka)
David B. Gray
Author : David B. Gray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781949163025
The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka) by David B. Gray Pdf
This is the first complete, critical English translation of the Cakrasamvara Tantra, also known as the Sriherukabhidhana and Laghusamvara. This is the first complete, critical English translation of the Cakrasamvara Tantra. Composed in India during the eighth century, it is a foundational scripture of one of the most important Indian Buddhist tantric traditions. The translator’s introductory essay provides an analysis of the historical and intellectual contexts in which the Cakrasamvara Tantra was composed. The heavily annotated translation was made on the basis of the surviving Sanskrit manuscripts of the tantra and its commentaries, parallel passages in related explanatory tantras (vyakhyatantra), two different Tibetan translations of the root text, and several Tibetan commentaries. Includes a trilingual glossary and index. The author has also translated the commentary on this tantra by the great Tibetan scholar Tsong Khapa (1357–1419), Illumination of the Hidden Meaning, now published in two companion volumes. Taken together, these three volumes provide the reader with the first full study in English of this pivotal tantra. Composed in India during the late eighth or early ninth century, the Cakrasamvara Tantra is a foundational scripture of one of the most important Indian Buddhist tantric traditions, as evidenced by the vast number of commentaries and ritual literature associated with it. Along with the Hevajra Tantra, it is one of the earliest and most influential of the yogini tantras, a genre of tantric Buddhist scripture that emphasizes female deities, particularly the often fiercely depicted yoginis and ?akinis.
Ruthless Compassion
Robert N. Linrothe
Author : Robert N. Linrothe
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9780906026519
Ruthless Compassion by Robert N. Linrothe Pdf
The historical development of Esoteric Buddhism in India is still known only in outline. A few verifiably early texts do give some insight into the origin of the ideas which would later develop and spread to East and Southeast Asia, and to Tibet. However, there is another kind of evidence which can be harnessed to the project of reconstructing the history of Esoteric Buddhist doctrines and practice. This evidence consists of art objects, mainly sculpture, which survive in significant numbers from the 6th to the 13th century.
Ocean of Attainments
Yael Bentor
Author : Yael Bentor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614298304
Ocean of Attainments by Yael Bentor Pdf
This commentary on Guhyasamaja tantra is the seminal guide to deity yoga and tantric visualization for the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Guhyasamaja Tantra, called the king of all tantras, is revered in Tibet, especially by the Geluk school. Ocean of Attainments, a commentary on Guhyasamaja practice, was composed by Khedrup Jé Gelek Palsang (1385–1438), a key disciple of the Geluk school founder, Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa. It explores the creation stage, a quintessential Buddhist tantric meditation that together with the completion stage comprises the path of unexcelled tantra. In the creation stage, meditators visualize themselves as buddhas at the center of the celestial mandala, surrounded in all directions by male and female buddhas, bodhisattvas, and other enlightened beings. Yet creation-stage practice is not merely visualization but deity yoga—indivisibly uniting the meditation on emptiness with the visualization of the mandala. The creation stage uses the conceptualization in visualization to overcome conceptualization, thereby creating a nonconceptual and nonerroneous direct perception. Such a mind, profound and vast, can bring about a transformation that stops samsaric suffering. How can visions generated as mental constructs not be erroneous? To the awakened eye, the buddhas and other beings who dwell in the mandala are “reality,” and in a sense they are more than real. While the previously published Essence of the Ocean of Attainments is a concise exposition on the practice of the Guhyasamaja sadhana, Ocean of Attainments is far more detailed, providing extensive scriptural citations, clear explanation of the body maanala, arguments on points of contention, reference to other tantric systems, and critiques of misinterpretations. With its extensive and clear introduction, this volume is a vital contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Guhyasamaja and on Buddhist tantra in general.
Tantric Ethics
Je Tsongkhapa
Author : Je Tsongkhapa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717804
Tantric Ethics by Je Tsongkhapa Pdf
Tantra, or Vajrayana, Buddhism is a set of esoteric practices that involve mantra recitation and complex visualizations. Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts, the highest of three complementary sets of vows. Tsongkhapa is perhaps the greatest philosopher ever produced by Tibet's Buddhist culture, and this book is a translation of his explanation of the tantric precepts.
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism
Christian K. Wedemeyer
Author : Christian K. Wedemeyer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231162418
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism by Christian K. Wedemeyer Pdf
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were “marginal” or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture. Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer exposes the fallacies of attributing Tantric transgression to either the passions of lusty monks, primitive tribal rites, or slavish imitation of Saiva traditions. Through comparative analysis of modern historical narratives—that depict Tantrism as a degenerate form of Buddhism, a primal religious undercurrent, or medieval ritualism—he likewise demonstrates these to be stock patterns in the European historical imagination. Through close analysis of primary sources, Wedemeyer reveals the lived world of Tantric Buddhism as largely continuous with the Indian religious mainstream and deploys contemporary methods of semiotic and structural analysis to make sense of its seemingly repellent and immoral injunctions. Innovative, semiological readings of the influential Guhyasamaja Tantra underscore the text’s overriding concern with purity, pollution, and transcendent insight—issues shared by all Indic religions—and a large-scale, quantitative study of Tantric literature shows its radical antinomianism to be a highly managed ritual observance restricted to a sacerdotal elite. These insights into Tantric scripture and ritual clarify the continuities between South Asian Tantrism and broader currents in Indian religion, illustrating how thoroughly these “radical” communities were integrated into the intellectual, institutional, and social structures of South Asian Buddhism.
Histories of Tibet
Kurtis Schaeffer,William McGrath,Jue Lang
Author : Kurtis Schaeffer,William McGrath,Jue Lang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614298083
Histories of Tibet by Kurtis Schaeffer,William McGrath,Jue Lang Pdf
The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of Leonard van der Kuijp, whose groundbreaking research in Tibetan intellectual and cultural history imbued his students with an abiding sense of curiosity and discovery. As part of Leonard van der Kuijp’s research in Tibetan history, as he patiently and expertly revealed treasures of the Tibetan intellectual tradition in fourteenth-century Tsang, or seventeenth-century Lhasa, or eighteenth-century Amdo, he developed an international community of colleagues and students. The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of the honoree and express the comprehensive research that his international cohort have engaged in alongside his generous tutelage over the course of forty years. He imbued his students with the abiding sense of curiosity and discovery that can be experienced through every one of his writings, and that can be found as well in these new essays in intellectual, cultural, and institutional history by Christopher Beckwith, the late Hubert Decleer, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Jörg Heimbel and David Jackson, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Nathan Hill, Matthew Kapstein, Kurtis Schaeffer, Michael Witzel, Allison Aitken, Yael Bentor, Pieter Verhagen, Todd Lewis, William McGrath, Peter Schwieger, Gray Tuttle, and others.
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 1
Thupten Jinpa
Author : Thupten Jinpa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614294726
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 1 by Thupten Jinpa Pdf
Explores the nature of the material world through the five aggregates used by Buddhist thinkers, discussing such topics as sources of knowledge, the scope of reason, and the nature of time.
Consecration of Images and Stûpas in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism
Yael Bentor
Author : Yael Bentor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004644755
Consecration of Images and Stûpas in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism by Yael Bentor Pdf
The present work is an investigation of the Indo-Tibetan ritual for consecrating images, stûpas, books and temples. It is based on a thorough examination of the relevant Tibetan textual material contained in Tantras, commentaries, ritual manuals and explanatory works on consecration. As rituals are meant to be performed, this textual study is combined with observations of performances and interviews with performers. The book opens with a general discussion of certain principles of tantric rituals and the foundations of Indo-Tibetan consecration. The main part focuses on a specific performance of the ritual in a Tibetan monastery located in the Kathmandu Valley. This volume contributes to the often neglected field of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist rituals. It is concerned with the sacred nature of objects for worship as well as with the main Buddhist tantric transformation into a chosen tantric Buddha.
Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation
David B. Gray,Ryan Richard Overbey
Author : David B. Gray,Ryan Richard Overbey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199909520
Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation by David B. Gray,Ryan Richard Overbey Pdf
Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars until now. This collection of original essays fills this gap by examining the ways in which Tantric Buddhist traditions have changed over time and distance as they have spread across cultural boundaries in Asia. The book is divided into three sections dedicated to South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia. The essays cover such topics as the changing ideal of masculinity in Buddhist literature, the controversy triggered by the transmission of the Indian Buddhist deity Heruka to Tibet in the 10th century, and the evolution of a Chinese Buddhist Tantric tradition in the form of the True Buddha School. The book as a whole addresses complex and contested categories in the field of religious studies, including the concept of syncretism and the various ways that the change and transformation of religious traditions can be described and articulated. The authors, leading scholars in Tantric studies, draw on a wide array of methodologies from the fields of history, anthropology, art history, and sociology. Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation is groundbreaking in its attempt to look past religious, linguistic, and cultural boundaries.
A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages
Je Tsongkhapa
Author : Je Tsongkhapa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614290353
A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages by Je Tsongkhapa Pdf
Tsongkhapa's A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages (1419) is a comprehensive presentation of the highest yoga class of Buddhist tantra, especially the key practices - the so-called five stages (pancakrama) - of the advanced phase of Guhyasamaja tantra. Beginning with a thorough examination of the Indian sources, Tsongkhapa draws particularly from the writings of Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Candrakirti, and Naropa to develop a definitive understanding of the Vajrayana completion stage. Whereas in the generation stage, meditators visualize the Buddha in the form of the deity residing in a mandala palace, in the completion stage discussed in the present volume, meditators transcend ordinary consciousness and actualize the state of a buddha themselves. Among other things, Tsongkhapa's work covers the subtle human physiology of channels and winds along with the process of dying, the bardo, and rebirth. This definitive statement on Guhyasamaja tantra profoundly affected the course of Buddhist practice in Tibet.
Searching for the Body
Rae Erin Dachille
Author : Rae Erin Dachille
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231556316
Searching for the Body by Rae Erin Dachille Pdf
In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. The discussion between Ngorchen Künga Zangpo and Khédrupjé Gélek Pelzangpo concerned the mechanics of this tantric ritual practice, known as body mandala, as well as the most reliable sources to follow in performing it. As representatives of the Sakya and emerging Geluk traditions respectively, these authors spoke for communities of Buddhist practitioners vying for patronage and prestige in an evolving Tibetan scholastic culture. Their debate witnessed clashes between imagination and deception, continuity and rupture, and tradition and innovation. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of the body mandala debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embodiment occurring across the disciplines today. Rae Erin Dachille explores how Ngorchen and Khédrup used citational practice as a tool for making meaning, arguing that their texts reveal a deep connection between ritual mechanics and interpretive practice. She contends that this debate addresses strikingly contemporary issues surrounding interpretation, intertextuality, creativity, essentialism, and naturalness. Buddhist ideas about the construction of meaning and the body offer new ways of understanding representation, which Dachille illuminates in an epilogue that considers Glenn Ligon’s engagement with Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography. By placing Buddhist thought in dialogue with contemporary artistic practice and cultural critique, Searching for the Body offers vital new perspectives on the transformative potential of representations in defining and transcending the human.
A Concise History of Buddhism
Andrew Skilton
Author : Andrew Skilton
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0904766926
A Concise History of Buddhism by Andrew Skilton Pdf
Chronicles the history of Buddhism and discusses where the religion originated, what its major beliefs are, how it has changed throughout history, and other related topics.
The Circle of Bliss
John C. Huntington,Dina Bangdel
Author : John C. Huntington,Dina Bangdel
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art, Tantric-Buddhist
ISBN : 9781932476019
The Circle of Bliss by John C. Huntington,Dina Bangdel Pdf
Published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition co-organized by the Columbus Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this hefty, oversize (10x13 catalogue features approximately 160 powerful masterpieces of Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian art produced over the pa
A Bull of a Man
John Powers
Author : John Powers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674033290
A Bull of a Man by John Powers Pdf
The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In early Buddhist literature and art, the Buddha’s perfect physique and sexual prowess are important components of his legend as the world’s “ultimate man.” He is both the scholarly, religiously inclined brahman and the warrior ruler who excels in martial arts, athletic pursuits, and sexual exploits. The Buddha effortlessly performs these dual roles, combining his society’s norms for ideal manhood and creating a powerful image taken up by later followers in promoting their tradition in a hotly contested religious marketplace. In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, John Powers skillfully adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship. The book focuses on the figure of the Buddha and his monastic followers to show how they were constructed as paragons of masculinity, whose powerful bodies and compelling sexuality attracted women, elicited admiration from men, and convinced skeptics of their spiritual attainments.
