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The Vajra Rosary Tantra (eBook, ePUB)

An Explanatory Tantra of the Esoteric Community Tantra

Übersetzer: Komodo Kittay, David R.; Jamspal, Lozang

Beschreibung

The first English translation of the Vajra Rosary Tantra, with extensive annotations from Alamkakalasha's Commentary, with a detailed introduction by the author. The Vajra Rosary is perhaps the most significant and detailed teaching attributed to Buddha instructing a practitioner how to overcome the 108 energies and their related conceptions that circulate in the subtle body and mind, leading most of us to continued rebirth in cyclic existence. The Vajra Rosary tells us how to overcome these energies and achieve the freedom of enlightenment. It is one of the "explanatory tantras" of the Buddhist Esoteric Community (Guhyasamaja) unexcelled yoga tantric system, the most complete of the four systems of tantra described in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist literature. The book's analysis of the Vajra Rosary Tantra illuminates for readers perhaps the most compelling reason of all to choose Rosary-the path to enlightenment is built on overcoming the 108 energy-winds and conceptualities, the number of beads on the ancient Indo-Tibetan Buddhist rosary. Readers will learn what practices to engage in to accomplish the goal of becoming a fully enlightened buddha through this comprehensive text.

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• Größe: 14.16MB
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Autor

Dr. David R. Kittay, adjunct professor, Columbia University, teaches courses on religion, technology, and the future. For several decades he has been translating Buddhist sutras, tantras, and commentaries, including the five explanatory tantras of the Guhyasamaja Tantra, along with Tsong Khapa’s commentaries on two of them, Inquiry of the Four Goddesses and the Vajra Intuitive Wisdom Compendium; and the Symphony of Dharma Sutra for the 84000 project. He has also written other books and articles about Buddhism, religion, and law. He is president of the Tibetan Classics Translators Guild of New York and founder and director of the Harlem Clemente Course for the Humanities, teaching humanities at the Drew Hamilton houses in Harlem. Dr. Lozang Jamspal, professor, International Buddhist College, has been translating Buddhist texts and training translators since the 1960s, and taught classical Tibetan at Columbia University for more than a decade. He is the author of numerous translations and reconstructions of the Sanskrit of many Buddhist texts, and is the executive director of the Tibetan Classics Translators Guild of New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949163155
• Artikelnr.: 57618938