This is the first complete English translation of the second chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratantra text, and its eleventh-century commentary, the Stainless Light (Vimalaprabha) , often accorded pride of place as the first volume of the Tibetan Tanjur. This chapter elaborates the human "individual" in terms of the cosmic human who embodies the cosmos within, showing the homology of macrocosm and microcosm, the outer and inner aspects of the person. The translation is supplemented with copious references to Tibetan commentaries, and includes the first critical edition of the Mongolian version of the second chapter.
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This important volume belongs in research libraries, but is also affordable for Buddhist scholars.
(Frederick Smith Religious Studies Review )About the Author
Vesna A. Wallace is associate professor of South and Central Asian religions at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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if you are already a scholar in sanskrit, fine, this is for you. But there is no glossary or editorial context to help the nonscholar...obviously great scholarship in the translation and presentation (judging from Thurman's intro) but this series would greatly benefit from consideration of adding a glossary and editorial notes. Otherwise this is for academic libraries only.
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1. Progenitor of Jinas, I do not know the measure of all things that you have taught. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twelve solar mansions, ber bolai, medicinal chest, one ghatika, thirty midis, unfavorable death, long moras, herbal portions, short moras, seventh petal, eighth petal, secret lotus, thirty syllables, three myrobalans, unfavorable signs, quarter breaths, five mandalas, grub rje, repository consciousness, habitual propensities, uneven signs, transmigrating beings, three fortnights, upper knuckle, lower knuckle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Progenitor of Jinas, The Great Exposition, Tantric Families, Cakravarti Battle, Sanskrit Kha, The Vimalaprabhd, Tibetan Tripitaka, Wheel of Dharma New!
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twelve solar mansions, ber bolai, medicinal chest, one ghatika, thirty midis, unfavorable death, long moras, herbal portions, short moras, seventh petal, eighth petal, secret lotus, thirty syllables, three myrobalans, unfavorable signs, quarter breaths, five mandalas, grub rje, repository consciousness, habitual propensities, uneven signs, transmigrating beings, three fortnights, upper knuckle, lower knuckle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Progenitor of Jinas, The Great Exposition, Tantric Families, Cakravarti Battle, Sanskrit Kha, The Vimalaprabhd, Tibetan Tripitaka, Wheel of Dharma New!
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- Buddhist Hermeneutics (Studies in East Asian Buddhism) by Donald S. Jr. Lopez in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual by Vesna Wallace in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Healing Buddha: Revised Edition by Raoul Birnbaum in Back Matter
- Buddha-Nature, Mind and the Problem of Gradualism (Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion) by D. Seyfort Ruegg in Back Matter
- Self As Body in Asian Theory and Practice (Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion) by Thomas P. Kasulis in Back Matter
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