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Description:Lay communities of itinerant yogins and yoginīs have been a vital dimension of Tibetan Buddhist culture from at least the ninth century onward. The communities were almost always irreducibly Tantric in character, in their ritual and contemplative practices, their textual traditions, and the very structure of their communal life. Although much of our information about early Tantric Buddhist communities in India and Tibet is fragmentary and heavily mythologized, detailed biographical and historical narratives that emerged in later centuries in Tibet give a fuller portrayal of the nature of these communities, and afford us a glimpse of actual male-female relationships.We have chosen to translate a depiction of the fourteenth-century Tibetan saint Longchenpa's (Klong chen pa, 1308–1363) ritual empowerment of a group of Tibetan yogins and yoginīs into esoteric Tantric practices. The action portrayed here occurred in the spring of 1339. The work is signed by Longchenpa himself and is specifically referred to as his composition in his own catalogue to The Seminal Quintessence of the Ḍākinīs (Khandro Yangthig).This exceptional narrative offers much to ponder with regard to the social dynamics of an esoteric Tantric community, to claims that were made regarding the production of sacred Tantric scriptures, and to the transic practices in which members of the community engaged, and which yielded extraordinary performances that were then interpreted within the context of an elaborate system of Tantric beliefs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Longchenpa and the Possession of the Ḍākinīs. To get started finding Longchenpa and the Possession of the Ḍākinīs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: 2000

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Description: Lay communities of itinerant yogins and yoginīs have been a vital dimension of Tibetan Buddhist culture from at least the ninth century onward. The communities were almost always irreducibly Tantric in character, in their ritual and contemplative practices, their textual traditions, and the very structure of their communal life. Although much of our information about early Tantric Buddhist communities in India and Tibet is fragmentary and heavily mythologized, detailed biographical and historical narratives that emerged in later centuries in Tibet give a fuller portrayal of the nature of these communities, and afford us a glimpse of actual male-female relationships.We have chosen to translate a depiction of the fourteenth-century Tibetan saint Longchenpa's (Klong chen pa, 1308–1363) ritual empowerment of a group of Tibetan yogins and yoginīs into esoteric Tantric practices. The action portrayed here occurred in the spring of 1339. The work is signed by Longchenpa himself and is specifically referred to as his composition in his own catalogue to The Seminal Quintessence of the Ḍākinīs (Khandro Yangthig).This exceptional narrative offers much to ponder with regard to the social dynamics of an esoteric Tantric community, to claims that were made regarding the production of sacred Tantric scriptures, and to the transic practices in which members of the community engaged, and which yielded extraordinary performances that were then interpreted within the context of an elaborate system of Tantric beliefs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Longchenpa and the Possession of the Ḍākinīs. To get started finding Longchenpa and the Possession of the Ḍākinīs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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