Author: W Y Evans-Wentz
Foreword/Introductio: Dr. R R Marett
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 389
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8121509696
Description
To embody orally transmitted traditions and teachings relating to texts collected from Late Lama Kazi Dawasamdup and to place on records not only a Catena (of carefully made translations of text) which are still a subject of inquiring for Occidental countries, all these have been successfully attempted by this book. Most attracting and interesting philosophy and religious text for Western thought described in principal yogas and meditations adopted by many Indian and Tibetan philosophers including Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa and Milarepa for attaining Right knowledge have been also described in a lucid and subtle style.
The seven principal texts which belong to a date long way beyond the time to which the actual manuscripts and block prints can be referred by this book. The related studies of these seven (Gampora's Supreme Path, the Epitome of the Great Symbol, the Epitome of the Six Doctrines, the Transference of the Consciousness, the Method of Eradicating the Lower self, the Fivefold Wisdom Attribute of the Long, and Essence of the Transcendental Wisdom) open a new horizon of study for scholars of related disciplines.
General introduction, a brief account of Buddhism before each treatise helps common reader which is in contrast to the European conception of religion, philosophy and science.
Contents
PREFACE
DESCRIPTON OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
BOOK I
The Supreme Path of Discipleship: The Precepts of the Gurus
The Introduction
The Obeisance and Foreword
The Twenty-Eight Categories of Yogic Precepts
The Conclusion
The Colophon
BOOK II
The Nirvanic Path: The Yoga of The Great Symbol
The Introduction
The Obeisance and Foreword
PART I
The Preliminary Instructions: The Temporal and Spiritual Teachings
PART II
The Essential Subject Matter
PART III
The Path of knowledge: The Yoga of the Six Doctrines
The Introduction
The Obeisance and Foreword
CHAPTER I
The Doctrine of the Psychic-Heat
PART I
The Five Preliminary Exercises
PART II
The Three Fundamental Practices
PART III
The Practical Application
CHAPTER II
The Doctrine of the Illusory Body
CHAPTER III
The Doctrine of the Dreamstate
CHAPTER IV
The Doctrine of the Clear Light
CHAPTER V
The Doctrine of the after-death State
CHAPTER VI
The Doctrine of Consciousness Transference
The Colophon
BOOK IV
The Path of Transference: The Yoga of Consciousness-Transference
The Introduction
PART I
The Profound Path of Consciousness-Transference
PART II
The Transference of the Consciousness of one Deceased
PART III
The Description of the Line of the Gurus
BOOK V
The Path of the Mystic Sacrifice: the Yoga of Subduing the Lower Self
The Introduction
The Colophon
The Addendum
BOOK VI
The Path of the five wisdoms: The Yoga of the Long Hum
The Introduction: the Yoga of the Five wisdoms
The Symbolic Significance of the Long Hum
The Obeisance and Meditation
The Concluding Mantra
BOOK VII
The Path of the Transcendental Wisdom: the Yoga of the Void ness
The Introduction
The Obeisance
The Sanskrit and Tibetan Title
The Question of Shari-Putra
The Replay by Avalokiteshvara
The Mantra of the Prajna-Paramita
The Buddha's Approval
The Addendum
INDEX