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Robert Preece’s The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra and Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness are reviewed. Both books address Tibetan Buddhism, and their common threads underscore this discussion. Even when separated from their original contexts, the Tibetan Buddhist teachings offer understandings about a common human nature and a method of transforming consciousness through awareness.

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  1. Simone Weil’s idea of Metaxu from Plato sees the world as a whole; any of its components, including our physical bodies, serve the same function for us in our relationship to God. Therefore, the body, for instance, does not afford direct insight, but can be used experimentally to bring the mind into practical contact with reality. Cf. Simone Weil: an Anthology, trans. Rees et al., ed. Sian Miles, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1986).

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  1. Philosophy, Deakin University, Faculty of Arts, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Geelong, 3226, Australia

    Maxine Haire

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ROBERT PREECE, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra. Ithaca, NY, Snow Lion Publications, 2006, 276pp., ISBN: 9781559392631, pb THRANGU RINPOCHE KHENCHEN, Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness, translated by Susanne Schefczyk. Ithaca, NY, Snow Lion Publications, 2007, 124pp., ISBN:9781559392723, hb

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Haire, M. Transforming Consciousness. SOPHIA 46, 305–311 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-007-0041-4

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