Naked Seeing

The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet

Christopher Hatchell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-998291-2 (ISBN)

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Naked Seeing investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bön and Buddhist traditions: practices in which a meditator spends long periods of time in a dark room or gazing at the open sky, with the goal of experiencing luminous visions. The book examines these practices in two major esoteric traditions, known as the Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). As both of these traditions began experimenting with sensory deprivation, they found that immersion in darkness or light resulted in unusual experiences of seeing, and those experiences could then be used as gateways to pursuing some of the classic Buddhist questions about appearances, emptiness, and the nature of reality. This book presents the intellectual and literary histories of these practices, and also explores the meditative techniques and physiology that underlie their distinctive visionary experiences.

The book contains complete English translations of three major Tibetan texts on visionary practice. These are: a Kalacakra treatise by Yumo Mikyo Dorjé, The Lamp Illuminating Emptiness; a Nyingma Great Perfection work called The Tantra of the Blazing Lamps; and a Bön Great Perfection work called Advice on the Six Lamps, along with a detailed commentary on this by Drugom Gyalwa Yungdrung.

Chris Hatchell teaches in the field of Asian religions, with particular interests in Tibetan religion. His research focuses on Tibet, particularly the Bön religion and a system of philosophy and practice called the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). He is especially interested in pursuing visual studies related to religious traditions, and his main research has been on Buddhist visionary practices.

Table of Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Part One: Seeing Literature ; Chapter 1: Yumo's Lamp Illuminating Emptiness ; Chapter 2: The Tantra of the Blazing Lamps ; Chapter 3: Advice on the Six Lamps ; Part Two: Views ; Chapter 4: Seeing Emptiness ; Chapter 5: Seeing Light ; Chapter 6: Seeing Through Sexuality ; Part Three: Seeing Sources ; Translation 1: Yumo Mikyo Dorje's The Lamp Illuminating Emptiness ; Translation 2: The Tantra of the Blazing Lamps ; Translation 3a: Advice on the Six Lamps ; Translation 3b: Drugyalwa's Commentary on the Intended Meaning of the Six Lamps ; Bibliography and Abbreviations ; Notes ; Index

Zusatzinfo	1 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-19-998291-0 / 0199982910
ISBN-13	978-0-19-998291-2 / 9780199982912
Zustand	Neuware