Naked seeing : the great perfection, the wheel of time, and visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet / Christopher Hatchell.

'Naked Seeing' investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bon 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 esoter...

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Main Author: Hatchell, Christopher (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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520 8 |a 'Naked Seeing' investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bon 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 and offers complete English translations of three major Tibetan texts associated with these traditions. 
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505 8 |a Chapter 1 Yumo's Lamp Illuminating EmptinessThe Wheel of Time; Early Tibetan Kālacakra and Yumo's Lamp Illuminating Emptiness; Yumo's Argument and Style; Biography of Yumo Mikyo Dorjé; Essential Background for the Lamp Illuminating Emptiness; Kālacakra's Visualized Generation Stage; Kālacakra's Visionary Six Yogas; Guhyasamāja and the "Stage of Self-Blessing"; Interpretive Analysis of the Lamp Illuminating Emptiness; Yumo's Introductory Comments; The Root Verse of the Treatise; Yumo's Concluding Summation; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Tantra of the Blazing Lamps; The Old Ones Encountering the New 
505 8 |a The Great Perfection and the Seminal HeartSeventeen Tantras and the Tantra of the Blazing Lamps; Essential Background for the Tantra of the Blazing Lamps; Gnostic Monism and the Doctrine of Recognition; The Enlightenment of All Good; The Common Ground; The Four Visions; Interpretive Analysis of the Tantra of the Blazing Lamps; The Tantra's Introductory Scenes; The Teaching in Brief; The Extensive Teaching; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Advice on the Six Lamps; Bön and the Great Perfection; The Oral Tradition from Zhang Zhung, and Advice on the Six Lamps; Primordial Beginnings and Historical Ends 
505 8 |a Seeing in the Dark: Charles Bonnet Syndrome and Visual Filling-InConclusion: Views of the Ultimate; Chapter 5 Seeing Light; Lights in the Body; Lights in the Eyes; Spontaneity and Motion; The Blue Field: Entoptic Light, Floaters, and Physiology; Letting the Light Out: Bodily Postures for Inducing Visions; The Matter of Light; Conclusion: Two-in-One; Chapter 6 Seeing through Sexuality; Introduction: The Many-Faced Consort; Etymologies and Types of Thig-le: Seeds, Semen, Sights, and Symbols; Kālacakra: Four Thig-le in the Body, and One in Vision; The Great Perfection: Five Thig-le 
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