Buddhism : Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Vol. VI

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA ance, is not taught for the sake of enjoyment" (II.ii.21-22). This is, in fact, the crucial point: the ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) partner. Of this PK III.40-41 and its commentary - if my interpretation 1s correct- ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA fingers aroused him from that samiidhi ... Thereupon he ... proceeded to the Bodhi-tree. All the Buddha ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) least according to certain texts: "How could the distinction between the Moments an ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA This passage is of great interest, for it provides an early precedent for the use of sexual terms to de ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) of this concept that the initiations studied in the previous chapter can be under- ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA Name of Joy (I.i.28; x.l3; II.iii.9) Joy (ananda) Perfect Joy (paramananda) Joy of Cessation ( viramana ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) (CMN)^100 (p. 32 1. 11)-list this Joy as third. So, in fact, does HVT in three pas- ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA petals of the sexual organ (guhya) (and their) permeation is the Joy of Cessation. And (while the sukra ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) Masters who teach evil doctrines, having performed the (Consecration of the) Gnosis ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA with the "Fourth Bliss" (16.2)^116 • The tendency to list the Joys in this particular succession (as in ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) "It is great and it is a Seal hence it is called the Great Seal. Further, its great ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA mirror) before (the image appeared), nor now (that the image is there)- yet people, believing that they ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) And thus it has been said by the Lord: "Lalanii has the nature of Wisdom and Rasani ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA does not realize in a concrete place, i.e. the woman. However, Know- ledge is one's own samiidhi. Being ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) The texts studied here seem to suggest that the Gnosis-Seal does not origin- ally b ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA ing to, reflecting, and meditating on the yoginitantras. So according to one's understanding the (Conse ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) than HVT which it explains, it nevertheless enables us to complete and clarify our ...

ON THE CONCEPT OF SAHAJA We are, first of all, warned that as to the actual experience of sahaja, (1) it is ineffable, that is t ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) for it is "knowledge, free from the ideas of self and other" (I.x.8). For one of th ...