The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation by W. Y. Evans-Wentz

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by W. Y. Evans-Wentz

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If you read John Reynold's Self-Liberation: Seeing with Naked Awareness, you'll find out just how much misconception happened due to Evans-Wentz. It followed that Carl Jung misinterpreted many things as the result of this book, which led to further removal from the truth.

Wentz was not a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, didn't study under lamas, and did not speak the language. Nor was he a practitioner of Dzogchen, the topic of the text he was interpreting. The main point is that due to Evans-Wentz, Jung and many others followed by believing that Tibetan Buddhism in general and Dzogchen in particular are equated with a Neo-Platonic and subsequently Metaphysical Christianity wherein is is postulated that there is a One Mind, One God, One Creator. Buddhism purports no such thing.

Read Reynolds and Namkhai Norbu, then decide for yourself. (

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12stepbuddhist | Aug 16, 2007 |

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"The Tibetan Book Of the Great Liberation: or the Method Of Realizing Nirvana through Knowing the Mind" is NOT the same work as "The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo" (of which there are over a thousand copies.) Please do NOT combine the two, unless you are willing to separate them all out again.

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The paramount teachings of the most illustrious teachers of Tibet and India, who have transmitted their teachings to the people of Occident, are the base of this book. In Book I, hereof, an account of the marellous superhuman life and secret doctrines of the Great Guru Padmasambhava. Book II expounds the quintessence of the Supreme Path, the Mathayana, and reveals the yogic methods of attaining the Great Liberation of Nirvana by means of knowing the one mind.

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