Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness

by Thrangu, Khenchen; Schefczyk, Susanne

• ISBN13: 9781559393799
• ISBN10: 1559393793
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-16
• Publisher: Snow Lion

Summary

This introduction to Buddhist psychology supplies essential instructions for successful meditation practice. Rinpoche clearly describes how consciousnesses operate in everyday perception and presents practices that can powerfully influence the mind, ultimately transforming it into Buddhahood.

Author Biography

Khenchen Thrangu was born in Tibet in 1933. He has founded numerous monasteries and nunneries, schools for Tibetan children, and medical clinics. He has taught extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, and is the abbot of Gampo Abbey. He was appointed by the Dalai Lama to be the personal tutor for the Seventeenth Karmapa.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 13
Everyday Consciousness	p. 17
The Six Collections of Consciousness	p. 19
The Five Sense Consciousnesses	p. 21
The Mind Consciousness	p. 25
The Stable Consciousnesses	p. 31
The Klesha-Mind	p. 32
The All-Base Consciousness	p. 34
The Mental Events	p. 41
Meditation Involving the Consciousnesses	p. 47
Primordial Awareness	p. 55
The Five Kinds of Primordial Awareness	p. 57
The Primordial Awareness of the Dharmadhatu	p. 59
The Mirrorlike Primordial Awareness	p. 60
The Primordial Awareness of Equality	p. 62
The Discriminating Primordial Awareness	p. 63
The Primordial Awareness that Accomplishes All Actions	p. 64
The Abode of the Primordial Awarenesses	p. 65
The Primordial Awarenesses and the Four Bodies of a Buddha	p. 67
Meditation to Develop Primordial Awareness	p. 71
The Five Buddha-Families	p. 75
The Buddhas and the Four Kinds of Enlightened Activity	p. 77
The Meaning of the Hand-Held Symbols	p. 79
The Appearances of the Buddhas in the Intermediate Phase of the Bardo	p. 81
The Transformation of the Five Elements into the Female Buddhas	p. 88
Meditation to Balance the Elements in the Body	p. 93
Notes	p. 97
Glossary	p. 107
Literature	p. 123
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