Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa (eBook, PDF)

A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Redaktion: Evans-Wentz, W. Y.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences among the several sects of Tibetan Buddhism, each holds the Great Yogi Milarepa in the highest reverence and esteem. For exemplified in Milarepa's life, as we discover in these pages, are all of the teachings of the great yogis of India--including those of Gautama the Buddha, the greatest yogi known to history. Amid his detailed introductory and explanatory notes for this text, Evans-Wentz also reveals compelling similarities between the life and thought of Milarepa and those of Jesus, Gandhi, and "saints...in ancient China, or India, or Babylonia, or Egypt, or Rome, or in our own epoch." In composing this translation from the original Tibetan, the late L?ma Kazi Dawa-Samdup, who was Evans-Wentz's guru for many years, aimed to show Western readers "one of our great teachers as he actually lived...much of which is couched in the words of his own mouth, and the remainder in the words of his disciple Rechung, who knew him in the flesh." For this third edition, Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, has written a critical foreword that updates and contextualizes this crucial part of Evans-Wentz's scholarship within the yoga tradition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199727889
• Artikelnr.: 38141866

Inhaltsangabe

New Foreword by David S Lopez Jr;
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Description of Illustrations
Introduction
PART I: THE PATH OF DARKNESS
1. the Lineage and Birth
2. The Tasting of Sorrow
3. The Practising of the Black Art
PART II: THE PATH OF LIGHT
4. The Seeking of the Holy Dharma
5. The Probation and Penance
6. The Initiation
7. The Personal Guidance by the Guru
8. The Parting from the Guru
9. The Renunciation
10. The Meditation in Solitude
11. The Hermitages and Service Rendered to Sentient Beings
12. The Nirvana
Appendix
Colophon
Index