Tantric Techniques

Hopkins, Jeffrey:
Tantric techniques / by Jeffrey Hopkins. Ed. by Kevin Vose. - Ithaca, NY : Snow Lion Publications, 2009. - ca. 464 S.
ISBN 1-55939-320-3 / 978-1-55939-320-1
US$ 32,95
-- Angekündigt für April 2009 --

Beschreibung
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.
   The book offers a complete system of Tantric meditation, comparing the views of three seminal Tibetan authors on deity yoga, and on issues such as how to safeguard against psychological inflation and how to use negative emotions on the path. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Technical Notes. 6
Introduction.7
PART ONE: THE PROCEDURE OF DEITY YOGA. 11
   1. The Sūtra Mode of Meditation. 13
   2. The Tantric Mode of Meditation. 45
   3. Jung's Warnings Against Inflation. 65
   4. The Path in Action Tantra: Divine Body. 83
   5. Mantra Repetition. 117
   6. Concentration Without Repetition. 145
   7. The Practice. 165
PART TWO: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SŪTRA AND MANTRA. 203
   8. Bu-tön Rin-chen-drup's Stimulating Catalogue. 205
   9. Long-chen-rap-jam's Dramatic Evocation. 243
   10. Tsong-kha-pa's Reasoned Analysis of Path-Structure. 263
   11. Controversy over Deity Yoga in Action Tantra. 303
PART THREE: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FOUR TANTRAS. 319
   12. Bu-tön and Tsong-kha-pa: The Four Tantra Sets. 321
APPENDIX:
   The First Paṇ-chen Lama's Reformulation of Tsong-kha-pa's Presentation of the Vehicles transl. by Donald S. Lopez. 359
List of Abbreviations. 387
Bibliography. 389
Index. 413

Autor
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.

Quellen: Snow Lion Publications; Amazon; WorldCat.

Rückschau
Von J. Hopkins haben wir in Indologica bereits die folgenden Titel erfaßt:
1. [18.01.2006] Hopkins: Absorption in No External World
2. [23.02.2007] Taranatha: The Essence of Other Emptiness