Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

by Evans-Wentz, W. Y.; Marett, R. R.; Chen-Chi Chang; Lopez, Donald S.

• ISBN13: 9780195133141
• ISBN10: 0195133145
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars like W. Y. Evans-Wentz, the late editor of this volume, that triggered our ongoing occidental fascination with such phenomena as yoga, Zen, and meditation. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines --a companion to the popular Tibetan Book of the Dead , which is also published by Oxford in an authoritative Evans-Wentz edition--is a collection of seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts that first appeared in English in 1935. In these pages, amid useful photographs and reproductions of yoga paintings and manuscripts, readers will encounter some of the principal meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers throughout the ages in the attainment of Right Knowledge and Enlightenment. Special commentaries precede each translated text, and a comprehensive introduction contrasts the tenets of Buddhism with European notions of religion, philosophy, and science. Evans-Wentz has also included a body of orally transmitted traditions and teachings that he received firsthand during his fifteen-plus years of study in the Orient, findings that will interest any student of anthropology, psychology, comparative religion, or applied Mah=ay=ana Yoga. These seven distinct but intimately related texts will grant any reader a full and complete view of the spiritual teachings that still inform the life and culture of the East. As with Evans-Wentz's other three Oxford titles on Tibetan religion, which are also appearing in new editions, this third edition of Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines features a new foreword by Donald S. Lopez, author of the recent Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West .

Table of Contents

Wisdom-Teachings and Good-Wishes of the ādi-Buddha Samanta-Bhadra	p. vi
Preface to the First Edition	p. vii
Description of Illustrations	p. xviii
Foreword	p. xxii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xxv
Yogic Commentary	p. xxvii
General Introduction	p. 1
the Supreme Path of Discipleship: the Precepts of the Gurus	p. 57
The Introduction	p. 57
the Nirvaā&nbdot;ic Path: the Yoga of the Great Symbol	p. 101
Words of the Buddha from the Pāli Canon	p. 114
the Path of Knowledge: the Yoga of the Six Doctrines	p. 155
The Introduction	p. 155
the Path of Transference: the Yoga of Consciousness-Trans Ference	p. 253
Precepts from the Tibetan Canon	p. 260
the Path of the Mystic Sacrifice: the Yoga of Subduing the Lower Self	p. 277
The Introduction	p. 277
The Science-Transcending Wisdom	p. 300
the Path of the Five Wisdoms: the Yoga of the Long Hū&mbdot;	p. 335
The Introduction	p. 335
This Fleeting World	p. 342
The Introduction	p. 343
the Path of the Transcendental Wisdom: the Yoga of the Voidness	p. 343
The Truth Beyond Demonstration	p. 354
Index	p. 365
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