The Lamp for Integrating the Practices (Caryamelapakapradipa) by Aryadeva: The Gradual Path of Vajrayana Buddhism (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences)

Aryadeva; Wedemeyer, Christian K. (Intr./Transl.)

ISBN 10: 1949163180 / ISBN 13: 9781949163186

Editore: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Wisdom Publications in association with the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, Boston / New York, 2021

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First printing of the second edition, hardcover, has a lean to the binding, and slight bumps to the spine ends. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has mild bumps to the spine ends and corners, a short tear to the upper front corner, and a touch of rubbing to the covers. Codice articolo 202447

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Titolo: The Lamp for Integrating the Practices (...

Casa editrice: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Wisdom Publications in association with the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, Boston / New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2021

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good+

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+

Edizione: Second Edition.

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 An essential tantric text on the practice of advanced yoga in tantric Buddhism.

The Lamp for Integrating the Practices (Caryamelapakapradipa) is a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the most advanced yogas of the Esoteric Community Tantra (Guhyasamaja-tantra) as espoused by the Noble (Nagarjuna) tradition, an influential school of interpretation within the Mahayoga traditions of Indian Buddhist mysticism. Equal in authority to Nagarjuna's famous Five Stages (Pańcakrama), Aryadeva’s work is perhaps the earliest prose example of the “stages of the mantra path” genre in Sanskrit. Its systematic path exerted immense influence on later Indian and Tibetan traditions, and it is widely cited by masters from all four major lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

This volume presents the Lamp in a thoroughly annotated English translation. It includes an introductory study discussing the history of the Guhyasamaja and its exegetical traditions, surveying the scriptural and commentarial sources of the Nagarjuna tradition, and analyzing in detail the contents of the Lamp. The book also features a detailed, trilingual glossary.

Simultaneously presented online for scholars are a version of its Sanskrit original, critically edited from recently identified manuscripts, and a critical edition of the eleventh-century Tibetan translation by Rinchen Zangpo, including notes on readings found in “lost,” alternative translations.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Christian K. Wedemeyer is associate professor of the history of religions at the divinity school of the University of Chicago and associate faculty in South Asian languages and civilizations. He is a historian of religions whose interests comprehend theory and method in the human sciences, the history of modern scholarship on religion and culture, and issues of history, textuality, and ritual in the Buddhist traditions. Within these general domains, much of his research has concerned the esoteric (tantric) Buddhism of India and Tibet. He has written on the modern historiography of tantric Buddhism; antinomianism in the Indian esoteric traditions; canonicity, textual criticism, and strategies of legitimating authority in classical Tibetan scholasticism; and the semiology of esoteric Buddhist ritual.