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PublisherWisdom Publications

ISBN-101949163164

ISBN-139781949163162

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Book TitleEsoteric Community Tantra with the Illuminating Lamp : Volume I: Chapters 1-12

Number of Pages568 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBuddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, Buddhism / Sacred Writings

Publication Year2021

GenreReligion

AuthorChandrakirti, Great Great Vajradhara

Book SeriesTreasury of the Buddhist Sciences Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight30.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2020-945123

ReviewsThe Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series stands out as one of the most important translation projects of the immense heritage of Indic religions and philosophies. This volume, with the English translation from Sanskrit and Tibetan of the fundamental Guhyasamajatantra and its pivotal commentary, the Pradipoddyottana , offers the reader another precious contribution of the series to the knowledge of Buddhist wisdom., The field of tantric studies is still in its infancy, with the large number of important works that remain unedited, untranslated, and unstudied. With this translation of the first twelve chapters of the Guhyasamaja Tantra with Chandrakirti's commentary, Campbell and Thurman are casting a bright light on one of the most influential Buddhist tantras, as elucidated by Chandrakirti, one of the great Indian exegetes on this work. Campbell's introduction nicely explicates the Buddhist hermeneutical project, while Thurman unveils a critique of Western misunderstandings of tantra and shows how Chandrakirti's explanations can be a corrective. The translation is eloquent and seems very sound; the fruit of decades of intensive textual labor. I strongly recommend this volume for anyone interested in understanding the Buddhist tantras and their interpretation, and I look forward to the publication of the second volume., This translation will be of great benefit to everyone intent on delving into the theory and practice of this tantric cycle as well as into the principles of the ground and path of the Vajrayana in general. The extensive introductions by Campbell and Thurman contextualize the Guhyasamaja and Candrakirti's commentary from broader historical and doctrinal perspectives and challenge some of the persisting, bias-based, interpretative approaches to the Vajrayana.

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal294.382

SynopsisA new presentation of Tantra with its most renowned commentary by one of the foremost translator/scholar teams of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. This volume is a translation of the first twelve chapters of The Glorious Esoteric Community Great King of Tantras ( Sri Guhyasamaja Maha-tantra-raja ), along with the commentary called The Illuminating Lamp ( Pradipoddyotana-nama-tika ), a commentary in Sanskrit on this tantra by the seventh-century Buddhist intellectual and tantric scholar-adept Chandrakirti. Regarded by Indo-Tibetan tradition as the esoteric scripture wherein the Buddha revealed in greatest detail the actual psycho-physical process of his enlightenment, The Esoteric Community Tantra is a preeminent text of the class of scriptures known to Indian Buddhist scholar-adepts as great yoga tantra, and later to their Tibetan successors as unexcelled yoga tantra. The Illuminating Lamp presents a system of interpretive guidelines according to which the cryptic meanings of all tantras might be extracted in order to engage the ritual and yogic practices taught therein. Applying its interpretive strategies to the text of The Esoteric Community Tantra , The Illuminating Lamp articulates a synthetic, "vajra vehicle" ( vajrayana ) discourse that locates tantric practices and ideals squarely within the cosmological and institutional frameworks of exoteric Mahayana Buddhism.

LC Classification NumberBQ8908