Deity Yoga - The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra

His Holiness the Dalai Lama illuminates the highly practical and compassionate use of Tantra for spiritual development in this important classic work. Deity Yoga is the second volume in The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra series in which the Dalai Lama offers illuminating commentary on Tsongkhapa’s seminal text on Buddhist tantra. It is preceded by Volume 1: Tantra in Tibet and followed by Volume 3: Yoga Tantra . This revised work describes the profound process of meditation in Action ( kriyā ) and Performance ( caryā ) Tantras. Invaluable for anyone who is practicing or is interested in Buddhist tantra, this volume includes a lucid exposition of the meditative techniques of deity yoga from H.H. the Dalai Lama; the second and third chapters of the classic Great Exposition of Secret Mantra text; and a supplement by Jeffrey Hopkins outlining the structure of Action Tantra practices as well as the need for the development of special yogic powers.

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• Authors: Dalai Lama, H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins, Dalai Lama, The Dalai Lama, Tsongkhapa, Jeffrey (TRN) Tsongkhapa/ Dalai Lama XIV/ Hopkins
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Hopkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Snow lion publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781611803587
• ISBN: 978-1-61180-358-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Exposition of Secret Mantra; Exposition of Secret Mantra; Great Exposition of Secret Man; Great Exposition of Secret Mantra
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions