Walter Evans-Wentz was een pionier in de studie van het Tibetaans boeddhisme, aangewakkerd door zijn vroege interesse in theosofie en academische studies in mythologie en folklore. Zijn uitgebreide reizen, met name door Azië, leidden tot zijn directe betrokkenheid bij Tibetaanse religieuze teksten. Deze diepgaande ontmoeting vormde de hoeksteen van zijn belangrijke bijdragen aan het begrip en de verspreiding van deze spirituele tradities.
A Biography from the Tibetan
A biography from the Jets n-Milarepa being the Jets n-Kahbum or biographical history of Jets n-Milarepa, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering. Edited with introductions and annotations.
This Galaxy Book edition features seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts, previously unknown in the West until their first English publication in 1935. It serves as a companion to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, edited by Dr. Evans-Wentz, who dedicated over 15 years to researching and studying under Hindu sages and Buddhist lamas. This volume is illustrated with photographs and reproductions of yoga paintings and manuscripts, presenting key meditations used by philosophers and gurus for attaining Right Knowledge and Enlightenment. The editor includes a body of orally transmitted traditions and teachings received firsthand, appealing to anthropologists, psychologists, and students of comparative religion and Mahayana Yoga. Each text is prefaced with special commentaries, and the preface contrasts Buddhist tenets with European religious, philosophical, and scientific concepts. Yoga, foundational to Hinduism, Jainism, Zen Buddhism, and Taoism, has also influenced Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. These seven interconnected texts provide a comprehensive view of teachings that have shaped Eastern culture and are increasingly enriching Western understanding of the psyche. Evans-Wentz, associated with Jesus College, Oxford, has authored several significant works on yoga, offering a unique "interpretation from within" that is rare among Western scholars. He lived in India and Sikkim, studying occult doctrines at the invitation of Maharaja S
The Liberation Thru Hearing During the Intermediate State (Tibetan: bar do "liminality" or "threshold"; thos grol "liberation"), sometimes translated as Liberation Thru Hearing or transliterated as Bardo Thodol, is a funerary text. It's often referred to in the West by the more casual title, Tibetan Book of the Dead, drawing a parallel with The Egyptian Book of the Dead. The Tibetan text describes, & is intended to guide one thru, the experiences that the consciousness has after death, during the interval between death & the next rebirth. This interval is known in Tibetan as the bardo. The text also includes chapters on the signs of death, & rituals to undertake when death is closing in, or has taken place. It's the most internationally famous & widespread work of Tibetan Nyingma literature. However, despite knowledge of texts & practices related to the Bardo-the book as found in the west is virtually unknown in Tibet in the title or form.
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