In the history of Tibetan and Tantric Buddhism, the Indian pandit Naropa occupies an unusual position. The life and teachings of this eleventh-century mystic mark both the culmination of a long tradition and the beginning of a new and rich era of Buddhist thought. This fascinating biography of Naropa, translated by Herbert V. Guenther from hitherto unknown sources, describes with great psychological insight the spiritual development of this scholar-saint. It also contains the most authoritative analysis available of his teaching and a commentary that relates Buddhist concepts to Western analytic philosophy, psychiatry, and psychology, in order to illuminate the signicance of Tantra and Tantrism for our own time.

The Life and Teaching of Naropa

Guenther, Herbert V.

Oxford University Press

The Dawn of Tantra

A Western and a Tibetan specialist explain the origins, history, principles, practices, and applications of the Buddhist tantric tradition of Tibet

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Shambhala

Philos&psy in Abhidharma

Examines the religious teachings of the rDzogs-chen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and relates these teachings to the modern secular view of the nature of reality

Matrix of Mystery

The Royal Song of Saraha

Originally published in the Netherlands, c1969, under the title, 'Tibetan Buddhism Without Mystification,' by E. J. Brill, Leiden. While various religious and philosophical systems attempt to satisfy the intellectual and emotional craving for explanations of life's mysteries, Tibetan Buddhism seeks rather to bring about a re-evaluation of this craving itself. Thus traditional Western studies of Buddhism, in seeking to fit the teachings into preconceived rationalist systems or to dismiss them as mystical meaninglessness, have missed or misconstrued the essential message. In this ground-breaking work, the world's foremost Tibetologist, Herbert V. Guenther, presents the Buddhist teaching as a dynamic process that leads us to reconsider our underlying assumptions concerning the nature of goals and their realization, and especially progress along a spiritual path. Includes Index.

Treasures on the Tibetan Middle Way: A Newly Revised Edition of Tibetan Buddhism Without Mystification

PHIL&PSY IN ABHIDHARMA

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

BUDHIST PHILOS IN THEO

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The Tantric View of Life

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The Life and Teaching of Naropa

The Dawn of Tantra

Philos&psy in Abhidharma

Matrix of Mystery

The Dawn of Tantra

The Royal Song of Saraha

Treasures on the Tibetan Middle Way: A Newly Revised Edition of Tibetan Buddhism Without Mystification

PHIL&PSY IN ABHIDHARMA

BUDHIST PHILOS IN THEO

The Tantric View of Life