A visual presentation of Tibetan yoga, the hidden treasure at the
heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition - Explains the core
principles and practices of Tibetan yoga with illustrated
instructions - Explores esoteric practices less familiar in the
West, including sexual yoga, lucid dream yoga, and yoga enhanced by
psychoactive substances - Draws on scientific research and
contemplative traditions to explain Tibetan yoga from a historical,
anthropological, and biological perspective - Includes full-color
reproductions of previously unpublished works of Himalayan art
Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan
Tantric Buddhist tradition: a spiritual and physical practice that
seeks an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic
and cognitive potential. In this pioneering and highly illustrated
overview, Ian A. Baker introduces the core principles and practices
of Tibetan yoga alongside historical illustrations of the movements
and beautiful, full-color works of Himalayan art, never before
published. Drawing on Tibetan cultural history and scientific
research, the author explores Tibetan yogic practices from
historical, anthropological, and biological perspectives, providing
a rich background to enable the reader to understand this ancient
tradition with both the head and the heart. He provides complete,
illustrated instructions for meditations, visualizations, and
sequences of practices for the breath and body, as well as esoteric
practices including sexual yoga, lucid dream yoga, and yoga
enhanced by psychoactive plants. He explains how, while Tibetan
yoga absorbed aspects of Indian hatha yoga and Taoist energy
cultivation, this ancient practice largely begins where
physically-oriented yoga and chi-gong end, by directing prana, or
vital energy, toward the awakening of latent human abilities and
cognitive states. He shows how Tibetan yoga techniques facilitate
transcendence of the self and suffering and ultimately lead to
Buddhist enlightenment through transformative processes of body,
breath, and consciousness. Richly illustrated with contemporary
ethnographic photography of Tibetan yoga practitioners and rare
works of Himalayan art, including Tibetan thangka paintings, murals
from the Dalai Lama's once-secret meditation chamber in Lhasa, and
images of yogic practice from historical practice manuals and
medical treatises, this groundbreaking book reveals Tibetan yoga's
ultimate expression of the interconnectedness of all existence.
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