Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines

by W. Y. Evans-Wentz

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Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars like W. Y. Evans-Wentz, the late editor of this volume, that triggered our ongoing occidental fascination with such phenomena as yoga, Zen, and meditation. Tibetan Yoga and Secret show more Doctrines--a companion to the popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is also published by Oxford in an author show less

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Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars like W. Y. Evans-Wentz, the late editor of this volume, that triggered our ongoing occidental fascination with such phenomena as yoga, Zen, and meditation. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines--a companion to the popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is also published by Oxford in an authoritative Evans-Wentz edition--is a collection of seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts that first appeared in English in 1935.
In these pages, amid show more useful photographs and reproductions of yoga paintings and manuscripts, readers will encounter some of the principal meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers throughout the ages in the attainment of Right Knowledge and Enlightenment. Special commentaries precede each translated text, and a comprehensive introduction contrasts the tenets of Buddhism with European notions of religion, philosophy, and science. Evans-Wentz has also included a body of orally transmitted traditions and teachings that he received firsthand during his fifteen-plus years of study in the Orient, findings that will interest any student of anthropology, psychology, comparative religion, or applied Mahayana Yoga. These seven distinct but intimately related texts will grant any reader a full and complete view of the spiritual teachings that still inform the life and culture of the East. As with Evans-Wentz's other three Oxford titles on Tibetan religion, which are also appearing in new editions, this third edition of Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines features a new foreword by Donald S. Lopez, author of the recent Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. show less
This book, studied in my teens, transformed me into a practicing Buddhist. There have been good-better translations since, but this was the 1st to enter my horizon.
Book I- The Supreme Path of Discipleship: The Precepts of the Gurus
Book II- The Nirvanic Path: The Yoga of the Great Symbol
Book III- The Path of Knowledge: The Yoga of the Six Doctrines
Book IV- The Path of Transference: The Yoga of Consciousness-Transference
Book V- The Path of the Mystic Sacrifice: The Yoga of Subduing the Lower Self
Book VI- The Path of the Five Wisdoms: The Yoga of the Long HUM
Book VII- The Path of the Transcendental Wisdom: The Yoga of the Voidness

The first (and possibly only) English translation of seven ancient Tibetan treatises. Includes introductions to each book as well as numerous footnotes giving in-depth explanations (very helpful). Not a book for beginners, but very interesting look into esoteric teachings show more and philosophies of Tibetan Buddhism.

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YOGA TIBETANO Y DOCTRINAS SECRETAS

En su mayoría, cuantos atisbaron en las extrañas doctrinas que el Tibet
conservó a través de los siglos, lograron tan sólo retazos de conocimiento que
como en formidable mosaico, ofrecieron al investigador y al curioso la muralla
de un incomprensible enigma.

Por fortuna, la tenacidad de un hombre que sumó
a su criterio científico, una no común identidad de ideales, permitió rescatar, para
Occidente, un conjunto de enseñanzas de indescriptible lucidez y purísima meta
fisica. w. Y. Evans-Wentz concreto con YOGA TIBETANO Y DOCTRINAS SECRETAS
una aspiración muchas veces postergada por falta de voceros veraces, imbuidos
de la honradez intelectual que esta clase de trabajos impone. Por suerte también
los show more espiritus esclarecidos hallan siempre aliados de altas miras, deseosos de servir
a la humanidad. Uno de éstos fue el Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup. Con ambos germinó
la concreción de este libro, único en su género, elevado en su doctrina, asombroso
en sus revelaciones crípticas.

Porque ¿quién no meditó alguna vez -o muchas-
en las perspectivas del Más Allá? ¿Quién no pensó-aunque más no sea, a la
ligera sobre los poderes extraordinarios de los yogis, inmunes a la rigurosidacd
del clima y del dolor, plenos de percepciones superiores, capaces de hazañas (desprovistas de violencia) que desafían al mundo físico? El Poder de controlar el
Calor Vital, la Clara Luz, el Bardo, la Transferencia de la Conciencia son temas
que apasionan al hombre de todos los tiempos, y lo ubican frente a la realidad
tangible de lo desconocido, frente a la existencia concreta de fenómenos que no
son alucinación, frente a un mundo de relaciones extrasensorias, tan indudables en
cuanto a su manifestación cierta como nuestra carne, nuestra sangre y nuestro
aliento. Quizá le esté reservado, algún día, a la humanidad, apreciar colectivamente
lo que hasta ahora-por limitaciones de variada especie es sólo indudable
privilegio de unos pocos escogidos.

Sin embargo, YOGA TIBETANO Y DOCTRINAS
SECRETAS nos permite trasponer intelectu almente, sin angustias, y con plena con
ciencia de una realidad irrefutable, las puertas de ese mundo incógnito, para que
el temor natural de la muerte y sus misterios, y el goce de la vida y sus
esplendorosos milagros, cobren, ante nuestra vista, la apariencia del más cabal testimonio de una Divinidad que nos protege y alienta a compartir, de algún modo, su
Inmortalidad

Héctor V. Morel
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W.Y. Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) was best known as the translator of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and the author of several other books on eastern mysticism

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Canonical title
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines
Alternate titles
Seven books of wisdom of the great path
Original publication date
1958
Dedication
This book of seven books of wisdom of the Yoga path direct I dedicate to them that shall succeed me in the quest on earth.
First words
This volume contains seven distinct yet intimately related treatises translated from the Tibetan, four in manuscript and three in block-print form, belonging, for the most part to the Esoteric Lore of the Mahayana, or Great P... (show all)ath.
Foreword: My friendship with the author of this work goes back a long way, namely, to the year 1907, when he came up to Oxford as a post-graduate student from Stanford University in California.
Preface to the Second Edition: Under the best of auspices, this, second edition of Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, is sent forth to the peoples of the nations.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Here endeth the Seventh and last Book of this Volume of Yoga Lore of the Gurus.

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Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
181.45Philosophy and PsychologyAncient, medieval & eastern philosophyEastern philosophyIndiaYoga
LCC
B132 .Y6 .E88Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPhilosophy (General)By periodAncient
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