Meditation Differently, Phenomenological-psychological Aspects of Tibetan Buddhist (Mahāmudrā and Snying-thig) Practices from Original Tibetan SourcesDespite the interest in meditation, few works have studied what meditation means within the original traditions. Meditation Differently presents a translation of an important Tibetan work which contrasts and compares two central traditions of Buddhist meditative practice-the Mahamudra and the rDzogs-chen, particularly the sNying-thing version. This translation is supplemented by a detailed commentary based on original Tibetan sources by Dr. Guenther, an eminent scholar of Buddhism and modern thought. This critical commentary is a hermeneutical and phenomenological study of the key ideas in the understanding of being and experience, utilizing developments in modern thinking to bring out the nuances of Buddhist thinking. |
Contents
The Mahamudrā Approach | 1 |
Padma dkarpos Definitive | 15 |
The rDzogschen Approach | 25 |
The Gestalt Experience of Being | 33 |
The Empowerments as Psychological | 49 |
The Lighting and the Lamps | 73 |
rTsele rGodtshangspa Snatshogs | 95 |
Literature References | 193 |
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aspect barrier-free approach become Being's abidingness Being's ec-static intensity Being's gestalt Being's possibilizing dynamics Bla-yang bliss supreme Buddha Buddha-experience Carl Gustav Jung chen-po chos-nyid chos-sku chreods closed system potential comes-to-presence coming-to-presence concrete creative dynamics dbyings dissociated domain dynamic regime ec-static intensity rig-pa empowerment energy Erich Jantsch existential experience experiencer experiencer's facticity felt field-like expanse flask four tuning-in phases fundamental forces gestalt dynamics gnad going astray gzhi holomovement images immediacy individual's inner ka-dag Klong-chen rab-'byams-pa kun-gzhi Kun-tu bzang-po lamp light lighting-up ma-rig-pa Mahamudra mdzod meaning meaning-rich gestalt mentation mind mind/mentation mKha'-yang ness ngo-bo nirvana nothingness one's openness/nothingness ownmost peak experience phenomenal present primordial pristine awareness modes psychic psychophysical radiance rang-bzhin rdo-rje rDzogs-chen teaching reality Reductionism referred resonance rgyud rNying-rgyud rtse-gcig samsara sems sGam-po-pa sgron-ma sheer lucency shes-pa snang-ba sNying-thig spiritual spontaneous spros-bral Tantras term Theg-mchog thig-le Tibetan triune Tshig-don tuning-in phase understanding vision whole ye-shes Zab-yang