Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines - Softcover

Evans-Wentz, W.Y.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8178222507 ISBN 13: 9788178222509

Publisher: New Age Books, 2004

Synopsis

This exceptional work of scholarship, which is so accessible to the interested general reader, is the work of the eminent scholar and believer who brought to the world The Tibetan Book of the Dead and an equally important work entitled Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa. The book, perhaps the most valuable in the trilogy, gives the very deeds of some of the principal yogas and meditations which many of the most illustrious Tibetan and Indian philosophers, including Tulopa, Naropa, Marpa, and Milerepa, employed in attaining Right Knowledge. The present work thus contains much that is new to Western thought, and much that, apart from its value for philosophy and religion, is interesting anthropologically. It should prove to be of the same quality and public appeal as the two volumes of the series which have already been published. Perhaps it may be found to be the most valuable member of the trilogy, inasmuch as it gives the very texts of some of the principal yogas and meditations which many of the most illustrious Tibetan and Indian philosophers, including Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa, employed in attaining Right Knowledge. This volume is meant at once for the exact scholar and for the general reader. The former will note that the original textual sources, which are sevenfold, are authentic, and that nothing has been incorporated into the texts or presented in the introductions and annotations which has no doctrinal sanction.

About this title

Synopsis:

To embody orally transmitted traditions, bad 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. 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. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Age Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8178222507
• ISBN 13: 9788178222509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24