The Tibetan Book of Yoga - Ancient Buddhist Teachings on the Philosophy and Practice of Yoga

Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL ROACH is a fully ordained Buddhist monk and has been a teacher of Buddhism since 1981. He was the first American to receive the title of Geshe. He is also a scholar of Sanskrit! Tibetan! and! Russian and has translated many works in these languages into English. He founded the Asian Classic Institute and the Asian Classics Input Project and has been active in the restoration of the Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery! where he received his training. He lives in New York. Klappentext Yoga came to Tibet from India more than a thousand years ago! and it was quickly absorbed into the culture's rich traditions. In this small book readers will discover Heart Yoga! which developed over the centuries in the Gelukpa tradition of the Dalai Lamas. The program presented here combines popular yoga exercises wtih special Tibetan poses! and methods of working from the inside to give a healthy and a happy heart. Roach discovered a number of previously unknown Tibetan works on yoga in the course of his ongoing efforts to find and preserve ancient Tibetan Buddhist texts. He discusses the ideas and insights presented in these texts and places them within the context of the Buddhist tradition. To help readers incorporate this ancient wisdom in their daily lives! he provides a specific regime of yoga postures and meditations. Combining instructive illustrations with the unique philosophical underpinnings of the Buddhist approach! Geshe Roach has created a unique program for yoga on a physical and spiritual level. The Roots of Heart Yoga "You cannot enter the door of yoga without kindness and compassion for others." --Changkya, Who Swam in the Diamond Sea (1717-1786), yoga teacher to the Emperor of China and His Holiness the Seventh Dalai Lama The ancient art of yoga came to Tibet from its birthplace in India over a thousand years ago. It quickly became very popular, and wonderful systems for its practice sprang up like mushrooms all over the country. The yoga practice you will learn here, which is called Heart Yoga, belongs to the Gelukpa tradition of the Dalai Lamas of Tibet. Heart Yoga works on your heart in two ways: It makes your physical heart and body healthy and strong, and it opens your heart to love others. And of course really the first always comes from the second. The instructions for the physical exercises and inner practice of Heart Yoga entered Tibet in two different lineages. The exercises--or what we in the modern world think of as "yoga"--were first taught to Tibetans by the Indian master Naropa (1016-1110). They form part of an ancient tradition known as the Six Practices, and the Tibetans nicknamed them the "Machine of the Body." The instructions for opening our hearts to others are called tong-len, which means "Giving and Taking." This practice involves special ways of breathing and thinking of others, throughout the day, and especially as you do your yoga exercises. The lineage for Giving and Taking goes back over two thousand years to the Buddha himself. It was passed on quietly from teacher to student without being written down and was brought to Tibet by the great Indian sage Atisha (982-1052). The practice was first put into book form by a Tibetan, Geshe Chekawa, about a hundred years later, and our presentation here is from his work. Both the physical exercises and the special breathing techniques merged together by the time of Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), who describes the yoga poses you find here in a secret text called The Book of Three Beliefs. The three beliefs, by the way, are belief in the beauty of the way; belief in the one who teaches it to you; and belief in yourself, that you will succeed in your practice. Jey Tsong Khapa was the teacher of His Holiness the First Dalai Lama (1391-1474), and from here Heart Yoga continues up to His Holiness the current Dalai...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Geshe Michael Roach, Michael Roach
• Verlag: Harmony
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 17.02.2004
• EAN: 9780385508377
• ISBN: 978-0-385-50837-7
• Seiten: 128
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 220 mm x 13 mm
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie