Ian A Baker

Tibetan Yoga

Principles and Practices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A visual presentation of the origins, principles and practices of Tibetan yoga, the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 191mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1130g
• ISBN-13: 9780500519264
• ISBN-10: 0500519269
• Artikelnr.: 54822702

Autorenporträt

Ian A. Baker is a cultural historian and the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan art and culture, including The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple and The Tibetan Art of Healing. He was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition 'Tibet's Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism' at the Wellcome Collection, London. He leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan and was named by the National Geographic Society as one of the seven 'Explorers for the Millennium' for his groundbreaking field research in Tibet's Tsangpo Gorges.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Thinley Dorje . Foreword by
the venerable Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche . Introduction . I. Outer,
Inner, Secret: Yoga in Indo-Tibetan tradition . II. Elemental Wisdom:
Varieties of meditative experience . III. Immaculate Perception: Freeing
the Imagination . IV. Enlightened Anatomy: The yoga of channels, winds, and
essences . V. Flowing Wholeness: The yoga of integral 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
transcending death . XI. Liminality: Navigating transitional states . XII.
Potent Solutions: The yoga of entheogens and elixirs . XIII. Primal
Radiance: The yoga of innate perfection