Tantric Techniques
by Hopkins, JeffreyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-04-16
Publisher(s): Snow Lion
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Summary
Deity yoga is the meditative practice of imagining oneself as an ideal being fully endowed with compassion, wisdom, and their resultant altruistic activities. The idea is that by imagining being a Buddha, one gets closer to actually achieving Buddhahood. Tantric Techniques will give the reader a dynamic sense of the potential of the human mind for self-transformation through step-by-step use of the imagination.
Author Biography
Jeffrey Hopkins is a seminal and influential scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, he is the author and translator of more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, including Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism; Reflections on Reality: The Three Natures and Non-Natures in the Mind-Only School; Absorption in No External World; Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix, and, as translator-editor, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's How to Practice and How to See Yourself As You Really Are. His most recent publication is Tsong-Kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom.
Table of Contents
| Technical Notes | p. 6 |
| Introduction | p. 7 |
| The Procedure of Deity Yoga | p. 11 |
| The S&ubar;tra Mode of Meditation | p. 13 |
| The Tantric Model of Meditation | p. 45 |
| Jung's Warnings Against Inflation | p. 65 |
| The Path in Action Tantra: Divine Body | p. 83 |
| Mantra Repetition | p. 117 |
| Concentration Without Repetition | p. 145 |
| The Practice | p. 165 |
| The Difference Between S&ubar;tra and Mantra | p. 203 |
| Bu-tön Rin-chen-drup's Stimulating Catalogue | p. 205 |
| Long-chen-rap-jam's Dramatic Evocation | p. 243 |
| Tsong-kha-pa's Reasoned Analysis of Path-Structure | p. 263 |
| Controversy over Deity Yoga in Action Tantra | p. 303 |
| The Difference Between the Four Tantras | p. 319 |
| Bu-tön and Tsong-kha-pa: The Four Tantra Sets | p. 321 |
| Appendix: The First Pan-chen Lama's Reformulation of Tsong-kha-pa's Presentation of the Vehicles translated | p. 359 |
| List of Abbreviations | p. 387 |
| Bibliography | p. 389 |
| Index | p. 413 |
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