The Tibetan Book Of The Great Liberation

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation is a storehouse of the most profound teachings handed down to us by illustrious Masters of Tibet and India. The author has explained them lucidly, in order that they may appeal equally to the learned and to the layman, to the philosopher and to the scientist.

Book I of The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation contains an account of the marvellous life and secret doctrines of the great Guru Padma-Sambhava, who journeyed to Tibet in the eighth century and introduced Tantric Buddhism there. Book Il expounds the quintessence of the Supreme Path, the Mahayana, and reveals the yogic method of attaining the Great Liberation of Nirvana by means of knowing the mind, the cosmic All-Consciousness, without recourse to the postures, breathing, and other abstruse techniques commonly associated with different forms of yoga. The aphorism of the Guru Phaldampa Sangay, contained in Book III, supplements Book Il.

Dr. C. G. Jung, eminent psychologist, has contributed a lengthy psychological commentary, which is of unusual significance for those with a scientific bent of mind as well as for students of oriental religions. Dr. Jung analyses the difference between Eastern and Western thought processes and suggests that the sages of the East appear to have recognized the unconscious in man long before its discovery by European psychologists.

The chief purpose of this book is to show the way not only to intellectual understanding but also to actual psychic realization of the Nirvanic goal proclaimed by Gautama, the Buddha. Both culturally and psychologically, this is indeed an epoch-making book.

Author: W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Publisher: Pilgrims Publishing

Released Date: 1999

ISBN: 9788177690262