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Yoga of the Guhyasamajatantra: The Arcane Lore of Forty Versus, a Buddhist Tantra Commentary (Buddhist Tradition Series, Vol 17) [Hardcover]

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Reprint of a classic on Buddhist Tantra. Presents the forty Nidana verses, then initiates the reader into Tantra by introducing various translations of key texts. a major text

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  • Hardcover: 388 pages
  • Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Pub (March 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 812080872X
  • ISBN-13: 978-8120808720
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wish we had more, but this is good to start with, August 7, 2006
This review is from: Yoga of the Guhyasamajatantra: The Arcane Lore of Forty Versus, a Buddhist Tantra Commentary (Buddhist Tradition Series, Vol 17) (Hardcover)
Alex Wayman has done a great service to both the academic world and to those of us interested in root documents of buddhist traditions. If you are looking for a complete translation of the Guhyasamaja Tantra, this is not it. Wayman has translated the 40 nidana verses, as well as chapters 6 and 12 of the root tantra, (which he considers the most important in terms of existing commentary on the tantra), along with Candrakirti's Pradipoddyotana commentary on these two chapters. Additionally, Wayman provides us with brief excerpts from all other chapters of the Guhyasamaja, with the exception of chapter 14 (unless I missed it), portion's of (the tantric) Nagarjuna's Pancakrama, and additional relevent quotations from various other as yet untranslated scripture and commentaries. He does all this in a very scholarly manner, using this work to discuss the ideas presented in chapters 6 and 12, as well as the 40 nidana.

The primary topic of this document is the three Lights and the Clear Light, but there is also important discussion on the Illusory Body and the winds.

If, after reading this, you want more (as I did), cannot read Sanskrit or Tibetan, but can read German, you might look for Peter Gäng's translation, Das Tantra der Verborgenen Vereinigung. Guhyasamaja-Tantra.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable article of Mahayoga Tantra, November 19, 2008
This review is from: Yoga of the Guhyasamajatantra: The Arcane Lore of Forty Versus, a Buddhist Tantra Commentary (Buddhist Tradition Series, Vol 17) (Hardcover)
Alex Wayman is by far and away one of the great towering edifices of Western Mahayana Buddhist scholarship, whose works have covered the ground all the way from sutra/shastra up to the highest Mahayoga Tantra (see Chanting the Names of Manjusri). Since Francesca Freemantle's 1971 phD thesis from University of London, a complete annotated translation of the Guhyasamaja Tantra seems destined to never be published in book form, thereby being available only to professional scholars, this text of Wayman stands as the only published translations of the seminal and utterly profound Guhyasamaja Tantra. Although we only get 3 chapters of 18 translated here, such is the scope of his scholarship and insight, the work as a whole is vastly rewarding and supremely precious. Humankind as a whole owes the brilliant Alex Wayman a profound debt of gratitude for making this 'arcane lore' accessible and presented in a mature and meticulous edition. Indispensible for students of Mahayana Buddhism.
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