A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages: Teachings on Guhyasamaja Tantra
Tsongkhapp
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Book ID : 41635
ISBN-10 : 0-86171-454-7 / 0861714547
ISBN-13 : 978-0-86171-454-4 / 9780861714544
Place
of Publication :
USA
Year
of Publication :
2013
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
Translated by Gavin Kilty.
636p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Tsongkhapa's Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages (1419) is a comprehensive presentation of the highest yoga class of Buddhist tantra, especially the key practices—the so-called five stages (pancakrama)—of the advanced phase of Guyhasamaja tantra. Beginning with a thorough examination of the Indian sources, Tsongkhapa draws particularly from the writings of Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Candrakirti, and Naropa to develop a definitive understanding of the Vajrayana completion stage. Whereas in the generation stage, meditators visualize the Buddha in the form of the deity residing in a mandala palace, in the completion stage discussed in the present volume, meditators transcend ordinary consciousness and actualize the state of a buddha themselves. Among other things, Tsongkhapa's work covers the subtle human physiology of channels and winds along with the process of dying, the bardo, and rebirth. This definitive statement on Guhyasamaja tantra profoundly affected the course of Buddhist practice in Tibet.
