The Teachings of Padmasambhava / Herbert V Guenther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guenther, Herbert V., author.

Series:

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.

Brill's Indological library ; 12.

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000

Brill's Indological Library ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist literature, Tibetan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study explores the ideas of the enigmatic and controversial visionary, known as Padmasambhava. It takes as its starting point a unique and hitherto untouched source: Padmasambhava's writings preserved in the rNying-ma rgyud-'bum that remain excluded from the standard editions of the Tibetan Tanjur collections to this day. The first chapter explains Padmasambhava's holistic background that reflects an anthropocosmic worldview. The second chapter deals with the problem of how this anthropocosmic whole becomes enworlded as samsara and of how the enworlded experiencer disentangles himself from it and regains his original wholeness. The third chapter assesses Padmasambhava's psychological insights and their hermeneutical interpretations. In this study, Herbert Guenther discloses the mind of one of the greatest spiritual geniuses in human history, Padamasambhava - wanderer, mystic, and one of the original founders of Tibetan Buddhism. Here his teachings step out from obscurity to speak with a wonderful clarity. In them is found a surprisingly postmodern portrait of how process dynamics self-organize to construct and "light up" our worlds of experience.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Herbert Guenther

Preface / Herbert Guenther

Introduction / Herbert Guenther

Chapter One A Tripartite Cosmos / Herbert Guenther

Chapter Two Into the World-Transcending the World / Herbert Guenther

Chapter Three Symbols (BRDA') : The Luminous Language of Being-Similes (DPE) : Interpretive Pointers to Being / Herbert Guenther

Epilogue / Herbert Guenther

Selected Bibliography / Herbert Guenther

Subject Index / Herbert Guenther

Index of Technical Terms and Phrases Specific to the rNyingma Tradition / Herbert Guenther.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: The Teachings of Padmasambhava.

ISBN:

9789004644762

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004644762 DOI

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Restricted for use by site license.