Initiations And Initiates In Tibet

Author : Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171272
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Initiations and Initiates in Tibet written by Alexandra David-Neel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted authority discusses mystic rites and doctrines, methods of psychic training, various kinds of initiations and their aims, spiritual exercises, "gymnastics" of respiration, many other topics. Invaluable insights into Tibetan Buddhism. 27 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Alexandra David-Néel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Initiations and Initiates in Tibet written by Alexandra David-Néel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1970 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780091540111
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Initiations and Initiates written by Alexandra David-Neel and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1986-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers an insight into Tibet's ancient spiritual doctrine and practices, including the various initiation ceremonies and daily spiritual exercises which Tibetans used to undertake before the Chinese invaded their country.

Author : Madame Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486119440
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Mystery in Tibet written by Madame Alexandra David-Neel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.

Author : Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872860124
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects written by Alexandra David-Neel and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, a method of mediation and enlightenment that was developed by the great Indian teacher Nagarjuna. In a collaboration between the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel and her friend, the Tibetan lama Aphur Yongden, these teaching are presented clearly and elegantly, intended for the layman who seeks a way to practice and experience the realization of oneness with all existence. Alexandra David-Neel was born in 1868 in Paris. In her youth she wrote an incendiary anarchist treatise and was an acclaimed opera singer; then she decided to devote her life to exploration and the study of world religions, including Buddhist philosophy. She traveled extensively to in Central Asia and the Far East, where she learned a number of Asian languages, including Tibetan. In 1914, she met Lama Yongden, who became her adopted son, teacher, and companion. In 1923, at the age of fifty-five, she disguised herself as a pilgrim and journeyed to Tibet, where she was the first European woman to enter Lhasa, which was closed to foreigners at the time. In her late seventies, she settled in the south of France, where she lived until her death at 101 in 1969.

Author : Dalai Lama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861718860
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalachakra Tantra written by Dalai Lama and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Associated with the promotion of world peace, the Kalachakra - or "Wheel of Time" - tantra is one of the most detailed and encompassing systems of theory and practice within Tibetan Buddhism. This book contains a complete translation of the Kalachakra initiation ritual as it was conferred by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Washington DC in July 2011, along with his commentary and a comprehensive introduction by Professor Jeffrey Hopkins that explores the Kalachakra's rich symbolism, meaning, and history. The book also includes the Six-Session Yoga.

Author : J. S. Gordon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620551748
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path of Initiation written by J. S. Gordon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the process of spiritual initiation from aspirant to the highest Adept • Explains the characteristics of each stage of initiation, including the associated psychological issues that need to be faced to move to the next stage • Explores the long history of the Mystery traditions from ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and India to the modern Theosophy of Blavatsky and Bailey • Reveals how the Brotherhood of Spiritual Adepts is increasing global tensions to prepare humanity for the Age of Aquarius and spiritual revelation As the precessional cycle transits from Pisces to Aquarius, great shifts in spiritual evolution are on the horizon--not for all of humanity as many in the New Age movement have generously hypothesized but for those who have undertaken the necessary spiritual preparation and initiatory work. Drawing from his deep immersion in the Mystery traditions of both East and West, author J. S. Gordon investigates the initiatic path from ancient times to modern day, detailing the step-by-step process of initiation and the sequence from spiritual aspirant to the highest Adeptship. He explains the natural logic and characteristics of each stage of initiation, including the associated problems and psychological issues that need to be faced in order to move forward to the next stage. He shows how humanity is naturally inclined to spiritual evolution and the development of higher consciousness. We are part of the overall evolutionary process of Nature, a system guided by the most highly evolved Adepts and extending beyond Earth to the entire kosmos. Exploring the long history of the Mystery schools beginning with ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and India, Gordon examines the sacred metaphors and allegories of esoteric philosophy, metaphysics, occult science, and the Science of the Seven Rays as well as the Adept-inspired theosophical works of H. P. Blavatsky and A. A. Bailey. He looks at the Adept Hierarchy of the Great White Himalayan Brotherhood and considers in detail two much-discussed mysteries: The Jesus-as-Christ mystery and the Maitreya-Buddha mystery. Revealing how advancement--spiritual, scientific, and cultural--erupts out of tension, he explains how the Adepts have been increasing local and global tensions to prepare humanity for the Age of Aquarius, thereby creating the ideal preconditions for spiritual evolution and an eventual restoration of the Mysteries in our own modern era.

Author : Alexander Berzin
Publisher : Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking the Kalachakra Initiation written by Alexander Berzin and published by Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully prepares the aspirant for what is required before, during, and after the initiation.

Author : Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 083482924X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling written by Alexandra David-Neel and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Gesar, renowned throughout Tibet and Central Asia, represents the ideal warrior—the principle of all-victorious confidence. As the central force of sanity, he conquers all his enemies, the evil forces of the four directions, who turn people's minds away from the true teachings of Buddhism. These enemies graphically represent the different manifestations of cowardly mind. As Chögyam Trungpa explains in the Foreword: "When we talk here about conquering our enemy, it is important to understand that we are not talking about aggression. The genuine warrior does not become resentful or arrogant . . . It is absolutely necessary for the warrior to subjugate his own ambition to conquer at the same time that he is subjugating his other more obvious enemies. Thus the idea of warriorship altogether is that by facing all our enemies fearlessly, with gentleness and intelligence, we can develop ourselves thereby attaining self-realization." The legends of Gesar usually take weeks for a bard to recount. Filled with magic, adventure, and the triumphs of this great warrior-king, the stories will delight all—young and old alike.

Author : Ruth Middleton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834829258
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexandra David-Neel written by Ruth Middleton and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868–1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime of more than one hundred years, she was an acclaimed operatic soprano, a political anarchist, a religious reformer, an intrepid explorer who traveled in Tibet for fourteen years, a scholar of Buddhism, and the author of more than forty books. But perhaps the most intriguing of all her adventures was the spiritual search that led her from a youthful interest in socialism and Freemasonry to the teachings of the great sages of India and culminated in her initiation into the secret tantric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This book reveals the penetrating insight and courage of a woman who surmounted physical, intellectual, and social barriers to pursue her spiritual quest.