Padmasambhava Bücher

Die erste vollständige Ausgabe des großen tibetischen Weisheitsbuchs Die Fragen, die im Tibetischen Totenbuch gestellt werden, bewegen alle Menschen, unabhängig von ihrem kulturellen Hintergrund: Wie kommen wir mit uns selbst und unserem Leben ins Reine? Wie können Angehörige einem Menschen den Sterbeprozess erleichtern? Was geht wirklich in einem Sterbenden vor? Wie vollzieht sich der Übergang in eine neue Wirklichkeit? Wie sieht es jenseits der Schwelle aus und gibt es Wiedergeburt? In der Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit sind viele Antworten auf diese Fragen gegeben worden, aber nie so ausführlich, so kompetent und zugleich so tröstlich wie im Tibetischen Totenbuch. In einem ausführlichen Vorwort gibt der Dalai Lama Auskunft über die tibetische Vorstellung von Tod und Wiedergeburt. Einzigartigen Zugang verschaffen die sachkundigen Kommentare der Herausgeber, die jedem Kapitel vorangestellt sind. Eine Textgeschichte des Tibetischen Totenbuches, ein Glossar der wichtigsten Fachbegriffe, eine Liste der Namen von Gottheiten und Bodhisattvas, eine Bibliographie und Fußnoten unterstreichen die liebevolle Präzision dieser kostbaren Publikation. Nicht zuletzt vermitteln farbige Abbildungen tibetischer Thangkas (Rollbilder) und Mandalas einen Eindruck vom Reichtum der alten tibetischen Kultur. Diese erste vollständige Ausgabe des Tibetischen Totenbuchs setzt einen neuen Maßstab – sowohl in ästhetischer als auch in wissenschaftlicher Hinsicht. Liebevolle und bibliophile Ausstattung in Leinen, mit Lesebändchen und mit Farbschnitt. Ausstattung: 16 Farbtafeln

Diese luzide Übersetzung eines seltenen tibetischen Schatztextes (Terma) macht die bemerkenswerten Lebensgeschichten der Prinzessin Mandarava westlichen Lesern zum ersten Mal zugänglich. Als Hauptgefährtin des tibetischen Meisters Padmasambhava aus dem achten Jahrhundert, in der Zeit, bevor dieser den tantrischen Buddhismus nach Tibet brachte, war Mandarava das inidsche Pendant zu Padmasambahavas tibetischer Gefährtin Yeshe Tsogyäl.

“ Don’t mistake mere words to be the meaning of the teachings. Mingle the practice with your own being and attain liberation from samsara right now.”PadmasambhavaPadmasambhava is the primary master of Vajrayana, the teachings for our time. Out of his great compassion and wisdom, he instructed his main disciple Yeshe Tsogyal to conceal terma treasures to be revealed at the destined time for future practitioners. The profundity of this advice is meant to be personally applied by all individuals in all circumstances. It is a classic work, which contains valid truth for anyone who sincerely wants to follow a spiritual path.“The chief compiler of Padmasambhava’s teachings was Yeshe Tsogyal, an emanation of a female Buddha. There may be some people who believe that only men can attain enlightenment, but her life is proof to the opposite. The awakened state of mind is neither male or female.”Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, from Introductory Teachings

Padmasambhava, the Indian mystic and tantric Buddhist master, is second only to Buddha Shakyamuni as the most famous personage in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. In the ninth century, he made the journey across the Himalayan Mountains to establish Buddhism for the people in that country. Now, more than 1,000 years later, we are able to hear and be touched by his voice as contained within this collection of oral advice. Sometimes with humor, sometimes with biting sarcasm, Dakini Teachings covers a wide range of instructions. Given not only to the king of Tibet but also to uneducated people, it is a classic work of valid truths for anyone who sincerely wants to follow a spiritual path in every walk of life.

The Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice known as Dzogchen is a pragmatic method for getting in touch with the pure, clear awareness that is hidden under our constant flow of anxious thoughts. Dzogchen Essentials makes available the methods to meet and utilize this rich spiritual path.Marcia Binder Schmidt, a long time, close attendant to one of the foremost Dzogchen Masters of the last century, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, has put together the most comprehensive and accessible collection of the essential instructions vital to this subject. She has organized them into a handbook for the genuine trainee of this tradition. The book includes a useful preface an introductory teaching by a leading Dzogchen Master as well as classical and original pieces that impart crucial explanations. This is a book for the layperson as well as the scholar.For centuries, Dzogchen has been a secretly held and privately transmitted teaching, which was unknown beyond the confines of Tibetan culture. But that changed in the final decades of the last century, as many Tibetans saw the long-awaited unfolding of a famous ninth-century "When the Dark Age is rampant, the Dzogchen teachings will blaze like wildfire."

A perfect companion to the well-known Tibetan Book of the Dead .In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. The profound teachings in this book provide the under- standing and instruction necessary to turn every phase of life into an opportunity for uncontrived, natural liberation.Like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Natural Liberation is a terma, a "hidden treasure" attributed to the eighth-century master Padmasambhava. Gyatrul Rinpoche's lucid commentary accompanies the text, illuminating the path of awakening to the point of full enlightenment. Natural Liberation is an essential contribution to the library of both scholars and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism.