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Tibetan Yoga: Principles and Practices

Autor Ian A. Baker Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iun 2019
A visual presentation of Tibetan yoga, the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition

• Explains the core principles and practices of Tibetan yoga with illustrated instructions

• Explores esoteric practices less familiar in the West, including sexual yoga, lucid dream yoga, and yoga enhanced by psychoactive substances

• Draws on scientific research and contemplative traditions to explain Tibetan yoga from a historical, anthropological, and biological perspective

• Includes full-color reproductions of previously unpublished works of Himalayan art

Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition: a spiritual and physical practice that seeks an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic and cognitive potential. In this pioneering and highly illustrated overview, Ian A. Baker introduces the core principles and practices of Tibetan yoga alongside historical illustrations of the movements and beautiful, full-color works of Himalayan art, never before published.

Drawing on Tibetan cultural history and scientific research, the author explores Tibetan yogic practices from historical, anthropological, and biological perspectives, providing a rich background to enable the reader to understand this ancient tradition with both the head and the heart. He provides complete, illustrated instructions for meditations, visualizations, and sequences of practices for the breath and body, as well as esoteric practices including sexual yoga, lucid dream yoga, and yoga enhanced by psychoactive plants. He explains how, while Tibetan yoga absorbed aspects of Indian hatha yoga and Taoist energy cultivation, this ancient practice largely begins where physically-oriented yoga and chi-gong end, by directing prana, or vital energy, toward the awakening of latent human abilities and cognitive states. He shows how Tibetan yoga techniques facilitate transcendence of the self and suffering and ultimately lead to Buddhist enlightenment through transformative processes of body, breath, and consciousness.

Richly illustrated with contemporary ethnographic photography of Tibetan yoga practitioners and rare works of Himalayan art, including Tibetan thangka paintings, murals from the Dalai Lama’s once-secret meditation chamber in Lhasa, and images of yogic practice from historical practice manuals and medical treatises, this groundbreaking book reveals Tibetan yoga’s ultimate expression of the interconnectedness of all existence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781620559123
ISBN-10: 1620559129
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 189 x 238 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

Cuprins

Foreword by the venerable Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche

Introduction

I Outer, inner, secret
Yoga in Indo-Tibetan tradition

II Elemental wisdom
The varieties of meditative experience

III Immaculate perception
Freeing the imagination

IV Enlightened anatomy
The yoga of channels, winds and essences

V Flowering wholeness
The yoga of magical movement

VI Incandescence
The yoga of unbound fire

VII Numinous passion
The alchemy of desire

VIII Noetic light
The infinite brightness of being

IX Dreamtime
The yoga of lucid sleep

X Exit strategies
The yoga of transcendent death

XI Liminality
Navigating transitional states

XII Potent solutions
The yoga of entheogens and elixirs

XIII Primal radiance
The yoga of innate perfection

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes and resources

Picture credits

Index