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Kālachakra tantra : rite of initiation : for the stage of generation : a commentary on the text of Kay-drup-ge-lek-bel-sang-bo / by Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and the text itself ; edited translated and introduced by Jeffery Hopkins.
- Title
- Kālachakra tantra : rite of initiation : for the stage of generation : a commentary on the text of Kay-drup-ge-lek-bel-sang-bo / by Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and the text itself ; edited translated and introduced by Jeffery Hopkins.
- Author
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
- Publication
- Boston, MA : Wisdom Publications, c1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BQ8921.K34 B77 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 527 p. : col. ill.; 22 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapịtaka. Tantra. Kālcakrarantra. English & Tibetan.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [472]-474) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Jeffrey Hopkins -- Altruistic Purification -- Deity Yoga : The Special Tantric Technique -- Motivation: The Thirty-Seven Practices -- Emptiness Yoga -- History of the Kalachakra Tantra -- Initiations and Mandalas -- Procedure of the Enhancement -- Procedure of the Initiations -- The Texts -- The Author of the Mandala Rite -- The Author of the Commentary -- Motivation and Internal Initiation -- Supplication and Faith -- Vows and Blessing -- Tooth-Stick, Water, Kusha Grass, and Thread -- Six Lineages and Vajrasattva -- Enthusiasm and Dreams -- Structure -- Outside the Curtain -- Seeing the Mandala -- Water Initiation -- Crown Initiation -- Silk Ribbon Initiation -- Vajra and Bell Initiation -- Conduct Initiation -- Name Initiation -- Permission Initiation and Appendages -- Understanding the Time of Attainment -- Advice to Abandon the Root Infractions -- Prayer-Wishes -- Daily Practice -- Guru Yoga of Kalachakra in Connection with the Six Sessions in Completely Facilitating Form -- Six Session Yoga -- Abbreviated Six Session Yoga -- Mantras in the Kalachakra Initiation, Stage of Generation.
- ISBN
- 0861711513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99018615^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library