The Esoteric Community Tantra, the All-tathāgata Body-speech-mind Secret, the Great Creation King

Download or read book The Esoteric Community Tantra, the All-tathāgata Body-speech-mind Secret, the Great Creation King written by Candrakīrti and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is a translation of the first twelve chapters of the The Glorious Esoteric Community Great King of Tantras (ŚrīGuhyasamāja Mahā-tantra-rāja), along with the commentary called The Illuminating Lamp (Pradīpoddyotana-nāma-ṭīkā), a commentary in Sanskrit on this tantra by the seventh-century Buddhist intellectual and tantric scholar-adept Chandrakīrti. Regarded by Indo-Tibetan tradition as the esoteric scripture wherein the Buddha revealed in greatest detail the actual psycho-physical process of his enlightenment, The Esoteric Community Tantra is a preeminent text of the class of scriptures known to Indian Buddhist scholar-adepts as great yoga tantra, and later to their Tibetan successors as unexcelled yoga tantra. The Illuminating Lamp presents a system of interpretive guidelines according to which the cryptic meanings of all tantras might be extracted in order to engage the ritual and yogic practices taught therein. Applying its interpretive strategies to the text of The Esoteric Community Tantra, The Illuminating Lamp articulates a synthetic, "vajra vehicle" (vajrayāna) discourse that locates tantric practices and ideals squarely within the cosmological and institutional frameworks of exoteric Mahāyāna Buddhism"--