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The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Eight, Part Three - The Elements of Tantric Practice (Hardcover)
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The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Eight, Part Three - The Elements of Tantric Practice (Hardcover)
Series: The Treasury of Knowledge, 8
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Jamgon Kongtrul's "Treasury of Knowledge" in ten volumes is a
unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of
Buddhist teachings as they were presented in Tibet. Tibetan
Buddhist teachers expected their students to study Buddhist
philosophical texts as well as practice reflection and meditation;
present-day students have also realized that awakening has its
source in study as well as in reflection and practice. "The
Elements of Tantric Practice" sets forth the essential components
of the path of highest yoga tantra, a system of meditation that
unites wisdom and compassion in its two phases of practice. The
first phase, that of creation, relies primarily on the use of the
imagination to effect personal transformation. The phase of
completion allows the practitioner to perfect the process of
transformation by training in methods that manipulate the energies
and constituents of the mind and body. The result of this path is
the direct experience of the fundamental nature of mind and
phenomena. "The Elements of Tantric Practice" concerns the
meditative processes of the inner system of secret mantra--that of
highest yoga tantra--and is based primarily on tantric sources. The
author introduces the subject by describing the path of tantra and
its underlying principles. The main body of the book deals with two
major elements essential to all highest yoga tantras: the practice
of the creation phase and that of the completion phase. For the
first phase, Kongtrul describes the visualization sequences in
which ordinary perceptions are transformed into the forms of
awakening and explains how these practices purify the stages of
cyclic existence--life, death, and rebirth. The creation phase
prepares the practitioner for the techniques of the completion
phase, which entail focusing directly on the channels, winds, and
vital essences that form the subtle body. Kongtrul presents the key
elements of a variety of tantras, including the Guhyasamaja and
Yamari, belonging to the class of father tantras and the Kalachakra
Hevajra Chakrasamvara Mahamaya Buddhakapala and Tara mother
tantras. All these tantras share a common goal: to make manifest
the pristine awareness that is the union of emptiness and bliss.
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