Naked Seeing, The Great Perfection, The Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet, by Christopher Hatchell

Softcover, 496 pages, Oxford 2014, new

Naked Seeing investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bön 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 major esoteric traditions and offers complete English translations of three major Tibetan texts associated with these traditions.

This superb study brings to light some of the most esoteric and innovative contemplative practices ever to emerge within Asian religions. In clear and engaging terms, Hatchell explores how the visionary techniques of the Kalacakra and Great Perfection traditions work to undo our deeply engrained psychophysical habits and open us to new ways of seeing. The result is a study that will appeal not only to scholars and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, but to anyoneinterested in the phenomenology of sensory perception.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
TABLE OF CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ; PART ONE: SEEING LITERATURE ; CHAPTER 1: YUMO'S LAMP ILLUMINATING EMPTINESS ; CHAPTER 2: THE TANTRA OF THE BLAZING LAMPS ; CHAPTER 3: ADVICE ON THE SIX LAMPS ; PART TWO: VIEWS ; CHAPTER 4: SEEING EMPTINESS ; CHAPTER 5: SEEING LIGHT ; CHAPTER 6: SEEING THROUGH SEXUALITY ; PART THREE: SEEING SOURCES ; TRANSLATION 1: YUMO MIKYO DORJE'S THE LAMP ILLUMINATING EMPTINESS ;TRANSLATION 2: THE TANTRA OF THE BLAZING LAMPS ; TRANSLATION 3A: ADVICE ON THE SIX LAMPS ; TRANSLATION 3B: DRUGYALWA'S COMMENTARY ON THE INTENDED MEANING OF THE SIX LAMPS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS ; NOTES ; INDEX
Autor: Christopher Hatchell
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