This edition features previously unavailable material incorporated into one of the best-selling Eastern philosophy titles of all-time, with millions of copies sold.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan ...
With an introduction by Carl McColman, this classic study of traditional Celtic spirituality ties ancient Paganism, medieval myth, and traditional Fairy beliefs into a powerful celebration of Celtic wisdom and magic. The author, W. Y. Evans-Wentz, was best known as the translator of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In the world of Celtic spirituality ...
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen, as shown here, by means of knowing the One Mind, the cosmic All-Consciousness, ...
This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences among the several sects of Tibetan ...
This classic study of leprechauns, pixies, and other fairy spirits features an Introduction by Terence McKenna--world renowned scholar of transpersonal dimension and author of "True Hallucinations and the Archaic Revival "and "Food of the Gods."
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan ...
W.Y. Evans-Wentz, great Buddhist scholar and translator of such now familiar works as the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, spent his final years in California. There in the shadow of Cuchama, one of the Earth's holiest mountains, he began to explore the astonishing parallels between the spiritual teaching of ...
A biography of Milarepa, the eleventh-century yogi and poet, the most legendary saint in Tibetan Buddhist history, Milarepa is a human figure who developed from a vindictive black magician into a powerful yogi pointing the way to spiritual liberation and complete self knowledge.
The paramount teachings of the most illustrious teachers of Tibet and India who have transmitted their teachings to the peoples of Occident are the base of this book. In the general introduction and the textual annotations there have been incorporated commentary complementary teachings which were orally transmitted through a long line of Gurus of ...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead - the Bardo Th "odol - is unique among the sacred books of the world as a contribution to the science of death and of existence after death, and of rebirth. It is used in Tibet as a breviary, and is read or recited on the occasion of death, but it was originally conceived to serve as a guide not only for the dying and ...
W.Y. Evans-Wentz, a pioneer in introducing Tibetan philosophy to the West, compiled this collection of seven Tibetan yoga texts, originally published in 1935, as a companion piece to his interpretation of THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. The ancient texts that are reproduced here are part of a wide range of doctrines that Evans-Wentz brought to an ...
The teachings of the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup, the Tibetan guru, have been culled and presented for Western world. It also aims at fostering greater understanding for further study on certain aspects of Higher or Transcendental Mahayanic teachings. The author has collected authoritative information which is impressively similar to the ancient ...
This is ostensibly a book describing the experiences to be expected at the moment of death, during an intermediate phase lasting forty-nine days, and during rebirth into another bodily frame, according to the buddhist conceptions.
This book contains a portrayal of the teachings that play a major role on the Tibetan understanding of death and dying. It is basically a collection of Buddhist scriptures that offer significant insight into the psychology of death and suggest the importance of meditative practice and knowledge as tools self understanding.
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