The Zen Of Tantra

Author : Monica Esposito
Publisher : UniversityMedia
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783906000251

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The Zen of Tantra by Monica Esposito Pdf

After the Zen boom of the 1960s and 1970s, Tibetan Buddhism increasingly captured the West's imagination. Today, entire stadiums fill when the Dalai Lama speaks, training centers mushroom, and books proliferate. Even the most esoteric form of Tibetan Buddhism, rDzogs chen or Great Perfection, has found numerous followers in the West. But the West stands not alone: in communist China, too, this form of Buddhism experienced a kind of camouflaged boom from the 1980s. Monica Esposito (1962-2011), one of Europe’s foremost scholars of Chinese religions, observed this process up close. After her discovery in 1988 of a Buddhist nunnery on Mt. Tianmu in China's Zhejiang province, she lived and practiced under the monastery's founder, a Chinese Zen (Chan) and Tibetan rDzogs chen (Great Perfection) master called Fahai Lama (1920-1991). Dr Esposito's book offers a fascinating glimpse into the daily life and practices of a Chinese Buddhist monastery and into the teachings of a man who not only survived the Cultural revolution as an acupuncturist, Qigong master and recluse in a Daoist cave, but managed to found and build a Chan monastery to promote Tibetan Tantra in a still thoroughly communist environment.

Author : Chogyam Trungpa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834803107

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The Teacup and the Skullcup by Chogyam Trungpa Pdf

The Teacup and the Skullcup is made up of edited transcripts from two seminars that Chögyam Trungpa gave near the beginning of his North American teaching career in 1974—one in Barnet, Vermont, and one in Boston—called "Zen and Tantra." Although Trungpa Rinpoche belonged to the tantra tradition, he acknowledged the strength and discipline gained from Zen influence. Through these talks you can see his respect for the Zen tradition and how it led to his using certain Zen forms for his public meditation hall rituals. He discusses the differences in style, feeling, and emphasis that distinguish the two paths and shows what each one might learn from the other. Also included are Trungpa Rinpoche's commentary on the Ten Oxherding Pictures and an essay he composed in memory of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, a close friend with whom he continually exchanged ideas for furthering buddhadharma in America.

Author : Ray Grigg
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781462907458

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Tao of Zen by Ray Grigg Pdf

The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhism—an assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars. This is the first Zen book that links the long-noted philosophical similarities of Taoism and Zen. The author traces the evolution of Ch'an The The Tao of Zen is a fascinating book that will be read and discussed by anyone interested in both Taoism and Zen

Author : Sam van Schaik
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559394468

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Tibetan Zen by Sam van Schaik Pdf

A groundbreaking study of the lost tradition of Tibetan Zen containing the first translations of key texts from one thousand years ago. Banned in Tibet, forgotten in China, the Tibetan tradition of Zen was almost completely lost to us. According to Tibetan histories, Zen teachers were invited to Tibet from China in the 8th century, at the height of the Tibetan Empire. When doctrinal disagreements developed between Indian and Chinese Buddhists at the Tibetan court, the Tibetan emperor called for a formal debate. When the debate resulted in a decisive win by the Indian side, the Zen teachers were sent back to China, and Zen was gradually forgotten in Tibet. This picture changed at the beginning of the 20th century with the discovery in Dunhuang (in Chinese Central Asia) of a sealed cave full of manuscripts in various languages dating from the first millennium CE. The Tibetan manuscripts, dating from the 9th and 10th centuries, are the earliest surviving examples of Tibetan Buddhism. Among them are around 40 manuscripts containing original Tibetan Zen teachings. This book translates the key texts of Tibetan Zen preserved in Dunhuang. The book is divided into ten sections, each containing a translation of a Zen text illuminating a different aspect of the tradition, with brief introductions discussing the roles of ritual, debate, lineage, and meditation in the early Zen tradition. Van Schaik not only presents the texts but also explains how they were embedded in actual practices by those who used them.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609255640

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The Ecstasy of Enlightenment by Thomas Cleary Pdf

The Ecstasy of Enlightenment is an inside look at the spiritual world of Tantra--one of the most sophisticated, alluring, and controversial forms of Buddhism. Cleary unlocks the mysteries of the Carya-Giti, a collections of teachings by more than twenty famous Siddhas, or Tantric adepts, who lived during the illustrius Pala dynasty of old Bengal. These teachings emanate from one of the most dynamic sources of international Buddhism, at the height of its religious development, and as such, they are completely nonsectarian. Particularly noteworth is Cleary's demonstration of the parallels between Tantric Buddhism in Old Bengal and the original Zen Buddhism of China.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609259631

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The Secrets of Tantric Buddhism by Anonim Pdf

Unlocking the secrets of Tantra—one of the most alluring forms of Buddhism Often misunderstood, Tantrism focuses on a particular style of meditation and ritual. Having far more to do with the sacred than the sexual, Tantric Buddhism is believed to have originated around the 5th Century AD in the rich cultural basin of Bengal and spread throughout the Asian world. Today it is widely practiced in Tibet, Japan, and the West. The Secrets of Tantric Buddhism presents accessible translations of 46 classic texts found in the Carya-Giti, a collection of teachings by more than twenty famous Siddhas, or Tantric adepts, who lived during the illustrious Pala dynasty of the 10th and 11th centuries. Renowned translator and scholar Thomas Cleary unlocks the mysteries of these texts and provides commentary for each that explains the ancient teachings in a way that makes them seem fresh and contemporary. These teachings emanate from one of the most dynamic sources of Buddhism, at the height of its religious development. They are completely nonsectarian and will be greeted enthusiastically by those interested in spirituality, world religions, and classic Buddhism.

Author : Charlotte Joko Beck,Steve Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780061971198

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Nothing Special by Charlotte Joko Beck,Steve Smith Pdf

WHEN NOTHING IS SPECIAL, EVERYTHING CAN BE The best-selling author of 'Everyday Zen' shows how to awaken to daily life and discover the ideal in the everyday, finding riches in our feelings, relationships, and work. 'Nothing Special' offers the rare and delightful experience of learning in the authentic Buddhist tradition with a wonderfully contemporary Western master.

Author : Richard K. Payne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861714872

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Tantric Buddhism in East Asia by Richard K. Payne Pdf

Although Indian and Tibetan versions of tantric Buddhism are increasingly recognized, the East Asian variations on this practice remain largely overlooked. The only book to present the entire breadth of tantric Buddhism in East Asia, this collection remedies that situation with 12 key essays drawn from rare sources. Organized into four sections--China and Korea, Japan, Deities and Practices, and Influences on Japanese Religion--the book brings together a "critical mass" of scholarship, with the potential to create a sea change in the understanding of this subject

Author : Ngakma Nor'dzin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781898185079

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Spacious Passion [paperback] by Ngakma Nor'dzin Pdf

2009 revised edition. A Buddhist book exploring the sutric teaching of 'The Four Thoughts that turn the Mind to Practice' as vividly relevant to our everyday lives: the extraordinarily precious opportunity to live as an honourable human being; the experience of impermanence that pervades our existence as an opportunity to awaken; the emotional and psychological patterning which dominates our lives (karma); and the seemingly endless cycle of dissatisfaction in which we imprison ourselves. Each chapter ends with a series of questions and answers which are both pragmatic and inspirational. Ngakma Nor'dzin has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for more than twenty years. ISBN: 978-1-898185-07-9 Spacious Passion website

Author : Stephan Kigensan Licha
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004541894

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Esoteric Zen by Stephan Kigensan Licha Pdf

When a Zen teacher tells you to point at your mind, which part of your body do you point at? According to the Japanese master Chikotsu Daie (1229–1312), you should point at the fistful of meat that is your heart. Esoteric Zen demonstrates that far from an outlier, Daie's understanding reflects the medieval Buddhist mainstream, in which tantric teachings and Zen were closely entwined movements that often developed within the same circles of thinkers and texts. ,br/> Drawing on newly discovered manuscript materials, it shows how medieval practitioners constructed a unique form of Zen by drawing on tantric doctrinal discourses.

Author : Wei Wu Wei
Publisher : Sentient Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781591810117

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Why Lazarus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei Pdf

Why Lazarus Laughed explicates the essential doctrine shared by the traditions of Zen Buddhism, Advaita, and Tantra. Wei Wu Wei has become an underground spiritual favorite whose fans anxiously await each reissued book.

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834829343

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Lust for Enlightenment by John Stevens Pdf

Over the centuries, Buddhism has responded to sexuality in a variety of fascinating ways, sometimes suppressing the sexual urge, sometimes sublimating it, sometimes cultivating it, and, on the highest levels, transforming it. This book reveals how Buddhists, beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, relate to the "inner fire" that drives humankind. Included are chapters on the Buddha’s love life before his enlightenment and his later relationships with women; the tantric approach to sex among Buddhists of ancient India, Tibet, China, and Japan; Zen in the art of love; and a positive discussion of women and Buddhism.

Author : Daniel Cozort
Publisher : Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UVA:X001636441

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Highest Yoga Tantra by Daniel Cozort Pdf

"This book clearly outlines and discusses the methods for transforming both body and mind through the highest forms of tantric practice. Highest Yoga Tantra is the pinnacle of tantric systems found in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Remarkable for its definitive clarity, this exposition of the stages of Highest Yoga Tantra is the first of its kind in the English language and a must for anyone interested in these highest tantras."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Thubten Yeshe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861711628

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Introduction to Tantra by Thubten Yeshe Pdf

This introduction recognizes and explains how to channel the powerful energies aroused by human desires, and how to transform lives with them.

Author : Chogyam Trungpa,Judith L. Lief,David Schneider
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Vajradhatu Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 1550550241

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The Teacup and the Skullcup by Chogyam Trungpa,Judith L. Lief,David Schneider Pdf