Book Summary
The paramount teaching of the most illustrious teachers ofTibet and India who have transmitted their teachings to the peoples ofOccident, are the base of this book. Book Igives an account of the superhuman life and secretdoctrines of the Great Guru Padmasambhava, who in the eighth century, on aninvitation of the Tibetan king, travelled to Tibet and converted Tibet intoTantric Buddhism. Book II expounds the quintessence of the Supreme Path, theMahayana, and reveals the yogic method of attaining the Great Liberation of Nirvana by means of knowing the mind, the cosmic All-consciousness, withoutrecourse to the postures, breathing, and other techniques commonly associatedwith lower yogas. The aphorisms of Guru Phaldama Sangay, comprising BookIII are supplemented to Book II. Dr. G. C. Jung, has contributed a lengthypsychological commentary. He analyses the difference between Eastern and Westernthought-process, and suggests that the sages of the Orient appear to haverecognised in their own peculiarly oriental manner the unconscious in man longprior to its discovery by European psychologists.
Book Details
| Book Name | The Tibetan Book Of The Great Liberation |
| Author | W. Y. Evans- Wentz |
| Publisher | Winsome Books India (2008) |
| ISBN | 9788188043156 |
| Pages | ixiv - 261 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 248 |
