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Naked Seeing - The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet (Paperback)
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Naked Seeing - The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet (Paperback)
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Buddhism is in many ways a visual tradition, with its well-known
practices of visualization, its visual arts, its epistemological
writings that discuss the act of seeing, and its literature filled
with images and metaphors of light. Some Buddhist traditions are
also visionary, advocating practices by which meditators seek
visions that arise before their eyes. Naked Seeing investigates
such practices in the context of two major esoteric traditions, the
Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). Both
of these experimented with sensory deprivation, and developed yogas
involving long periods of dwelling in dark rooms or gazing at the
open sky. These produced unusual experiences of seeing, which were
used to pursue some of the classic Buddhist questions about
appearances, emptiness, and the nature of reality. Along the way,
these practices gave rise to provocative ideas and suggested that,
rather than being apprehended through internal insight, religious
truths might also be seen in the exterior world-realized through
the gateway of the eyes. Christopher Hatchell presents the
intellectual and literary histories of these practices, and also
explores the meditative techniques and physiology that underlie
their distinctive visionary experiences.
The book also offers for the first time complete English
translations of three major Tibetan texts on visionary practice: a
Kalacakra treatise by Yumo Mikyo Dorje, The Lamp Illuminating
Emptiness, a Nyingma Great Perfection work called The Tantra of the
Blazing Lamps, and a Bon Great Perfection work called Advice on the
Six Lamps, along with a detailed commentary on this by Drugom
Gyalwa Yungdrung."
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