The Concealed Essence of the Hevajra Tantra: With the Commentary Yogaratnamala (English and Sanskrit Edition)

by G. W. Farrow

Other authorsI Menon (Editor)
Hardcover, 2003

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Motilal Banarsidass Pub (2003), Edition: 1st, 308 pages

Description

Treatise on Tantric Buddhism; includes Yogaratnamala or Hevajra Pañjika, commentary by Krsnavajrapada, 11th cent.

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8120809114 / 9788120809116

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The Hevajra Tantra is a non-dual, Yogini tantra of the late Mantrayāna tradition of Buddhism which was composed in northeastern India during the 8th century A.D. It was one of the principle later tantric cycles which were first introduced into Tibet during the late 10th century in a general
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reintroduction of the Buddhism there after the persecutions of the previous century.

The origins of the tantric Buddhist Wisdom and Means method exposed in the Hevajra Tantra can be traced to the views found in the 1st century A.D. Mādhyamika works of Nāgārjuna and the works of other Mahāyāna schools as well as through the texts of the later, 6th–7th century Yoga tantra tradition. The method of the Hevajra Tantra was especially evolved from the views on the tantric Buddhist method found in the Guhyasamāja Tantra, the Manjuśri Mūlakalpa, and other Yoga tantra works.
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308
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