Guhyasamāja practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna system : volume one, the generation stage / Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa ; translated and annotated by Artemus B. Engle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blo-bzaṅ-byams-pa, 1939- author.

Contributor:

Engle, Artemus B., 1948- translator, annotator.

Series:

Tsadra Foundation series

The Tsadra Foundation series

Language:

English

Tibetan

Subjects (All):

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Tantra. Guhyasamāja--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Tripiṭaka.

Nāgārjuna, active 2nd century.

Nāgārjuna.

Tantric Buddhism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 743 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Snow Lion, an imprint of Shambala Publications, Inc., 2019.

Language Note:

In English, with some text in Tibetan.

Summary:

"The Guhyasamāja Tantra is one of the Unexcelled Yoga Tantras of Vajrayana Buddhism. In the initial, generation-stage practice, one engages in a prescribed sequence of visualizations of oneself as an enlightened being in a purified environment in order to prepare one's mind and body to engage in the second stage: the completion stage. The latter works directly with the subtle energies of one's mind and body and transforms them into the enlightened mind and body of a buddha. In this book, Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa, a former abbot of Gyumé Tantric College, provides complete instructions on how to practice the generation stage of Guhyasamāja, explaining the visualizations, offerings, and mantras involved, what they symbolize, and the purpose they serve. These instructions, which are usually imparted only orally from master to student after the student has been initiated into the Guhyasamāja mandala, are now being published in English for the first time and are supplemented by extracts from key written commentaries in the footnotes to support practitioners who have received the required transmissions from a holder of this lineage. The complete self-generation ritual is included in the second part of the book, with the Tibetan on facing pages, which can be used by those who read Tibetan and want to recite the ritual in Tibetan."--Front flap.

Contents:

Oral commentary on the Self-generation ritual

The Self-generation ritual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Tibetan.

V. 1. The generation stage.

Contains:

Blo-bzaṅ-byams-pa, 1939- Guhyasamāja practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna system. Tibetan.

Blo-bzaṅ-byams-pa, 1939- Guhyasamāja practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna system. English.

ISBN:

9781559394857

1559394854

OCLC:

1075550788