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The "Five Stages" (Pancakrama) and "Condensed Stage" (Pindikrama) translated herein are renowned in Indo-Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism as two of most fundamental Tantric works of the illustrious philosopher-sage Arya Nagarjuna (2nd Cent.CE). Author of many treatises of a rigorous dialectical logic known as "consequentialism" (prasanga), Nagarjuna is esteemed as "second Buddha" for his exposition of Buddhist doctrines, exoteric and esoteric. The treatises herein translated from the original Sanskrit (with reference to Tibetan versions), are expository works on the fourth and highest division of...

This work is a translation of three early Indian Vajrayana treatises from the Sanskrit by three of the early Buddhist Tantric adepts renowned as Mahasiddhas, numbering by the most accepted account eighty-four, who flourished in the medieval era of India from the 8th-12th centuries C.E. The three authors are related by guru-disciple lineal succession, though the first two Anangavajra and Indrabhuti were most likely contemporaries and the third, Laksimnkara was the sister of Indrabhuti and hence his contemporary also. The treatises expound the world-view of Tantric Buddhism, (a.k.a. as ...

The three short treatises translated herein on the subject of the famous Six yogas of Naropa (Naro'i Chos Drug) are compositions by authors representing sub-schools of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The first is a translation of the Instructions (gdams) portion of in the hagiography (rnam thar) or literally Life and Liberation Narrative of Naropa entitled Mhas grub mynam-med dpal-ldan Na-ro-pa'i rnam-par thar=pa dri-med legs-bsad bde-chen 'brug-sgra which may be rendered "The well-narrated immaculate biography of the peerless sage Naropa or the voice of thunder of the Great Bliss. ...

This title, The Two Bhavanakramas of Vimalamitra is intended as a companion volume to my Progress in Meditation: The Three Bhavanakramas of Kamalashila (Amazon 2020). The Progress in Meditation: The Three Bhavanakramas of Kamalashila, is a translation from Sanskrit (with reference to the Tibetan) of the Indian scholar Kamalshila's three treatises on the path of gradual practice of meditation (bhavanakrama) for achieving enlightenment (bodhi). Composed in Tibet at the behest of the Tibetan king Khri srong lde bstan following the Great Debate (or Council of Lhasa) convened at the monastery of...

The Yogakarnika of Aghoranandanatha is an encyclopedia and practice manual of Yoga composed between the 16th-18th centuries C.E. In the genre of Yoga classics such as the Goraksha Samhita, the Hathayogapradipika and Gheranda Samhita. It expounds the entire range of yogas from Hatha to Kundalini. The author Aghoranandanatha, is in the lineage of renowned Mahasiddhas such as Gorakshanath, whom he quotes in his treatise as a primary authority. Although the treatise comprehensively covers the entire range of yogas, it has an underlying Tantric orientation and can also be considered as primarily...