Esoteric Community Tantra with The Illuminating Lamp
A new presentation of Tantra with its most renowned commentary by one of the foremost translator/scholar teams of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.This volume is a translation of the first twelve chapters…
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A new presentation of Tantra with its most renowned commentary by one of the foremost translator/scholar teams of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.This volume is a translation of the first twelve chapters of the Great King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community Tantra (Sri Guhyasamaja Maha-tantra-raja), along with the commentary called The Illuminating Lamp (Pradipoddyotana-nama-tika), a commentary in Sanskrit on this tantra by the Buddhist intellectual and tantric scholar-practitioner Chandrakirti in the second half of the first millennium. Regarded by Indo-Tibetan tradition as the esoteric scripture wherein the Buddha revealed the actual psycho-physical process of his enlightenment, The Esoteric Community Tantra is a preeminent text of the class of scriptures known to late first-millennium Indian Buddhist writers as great yoga tantra