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A-mdo Dge-ʾdun-chos-ʾphel

Tibetan Arts of Love: Sex, Orgasm, and Spiritual Healing Kindle Edition

by Gedun Chopel (Author), Jeffrey Hopkins (Introduction)

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Presents in lucid detail the sixty-four arts of love divided into eight varieties of sexual play—embracing, kissing, pinching and scratching, biting, moving to and fro and pressing, erotic noises, role reversal, and positions of love-making. It is a translation of the Treatise on Passion by Gedun Chöpel, the highly contoversial former monk. He gives titillating advice to shun inhibitions and explains how to increase female sexual pleasure. An over-arching focus is sexual ecstasy as a door to spiritual experience—the sky experience of the mind of clear light pervades the scintillating descriptions of erotic acts.

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File Size: 532 KB
Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: Snow Lion (May 2, 2000)
Publication Date: May 2, 2000
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B003VYBPR4
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,140 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #37 in Tibetan Buddhism (Kindle Store)
- #45 in Sacred Sexuality
- #126 in Consciousness & Thought

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Joe Niemczura

more to it than the inventory of positions

October 2, 2006

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Not the usual category of book for which I write reviews. I am new to the study of eastern religions, and I enjoyed this book. About a third of it is devoted to a literal translation of a handbook on Vajrayan Buddhism which was published in the 1930s - pretty spicy stuff in those days, a veritable how-to list. But there is not much new in that part if you have read " The Joy of Sex" or any amount of other erotic literature. There are no pictures and if that is what you are interested in, you would do better by going to your local big-box bookstore. The strength of this book would seem to be in two areas. First, there is a detailed analysis by Jeffrey Hopkins, who evidently is a professor of Eastern Religions in London. Replete with footnotes. In a scholarly way, he re-interprets the imagery of the original author so that a modern reader would understand the references. Also, Hopkins has added a chapter 5 is titled "Sexual Pleasure and Spiritual Insight" and I thought it was the most illuminating section of the book. The chapter links the practice of yoga & meditation, the theory of spirituality, and the chakra system to the path of enlightenment, and also describes the nature of the link between sexuality in Tibetan Vajrayan ( also known as Tantric) practice with all these. The Chakra system is explained in detail; this has gained a lot of traction in "New Age" circles but I never really contemplate dwhat it was they were talking about, until now. Chakras are a theme of Hindusim and Buddhism. I confess that maybe I should have known all this, and maybe there will be those who take it for granted....but it did not come together in a cohesive whole before this.

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Paki S. Wright

Old truths for modern times?

February 18, 2013

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Gedun Chopel was a brilliant scholarly monastic in Tibet (pre-Chinese invasion) who found celibacy didn't suit his particular spiritual path and so went on a life-long journey to incorporate sexuality into his practice, with some astounding results, in the form of his classic text on the arts of love, Tibetan-style; for a more detailed review, go to [...], Paki Dechen Palmo

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MICK

Five Stars

April 27, 2017

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knowledge of sexual things is poor world wide. We need more sex education, facts not ideology.

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Ryan M Keisling

Entertaining

September 23, 2017

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Much like the Kama Sutra. Not the best book on sexual yoga.

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Anna Ryabinina

Great all around

January 25, 2016

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Wonderful book. Parcel arrived earlier than predicted. Great all around. Thank you!

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jcboulder

Tibetan DaVinci

March 13, 2011

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Gedum Chopal was a genius monk, artist, historian, seer and womanizer. Educated as a monk in Tibet in the 1930s he once disguised himself as as a type of monk Hell's Angel and challenged the abbot of a pwerful monastery to debate -- and defeated him soundly. Able to draw a perfect circle dead drunk he was reknowned as an inconclast predicting that Tibet would be lost to the Chinese unless something was done right away he also conducted the first scientific research on Tibet's ancient borders proving that Tibet was never truly a vassalof China his outspoken icon busting got the best of him as was arrested and spent the rest of his life in prison.

But not before leaving the monkhook and having a series of joyous affairs with women across the Himalayas. He wrote this treatise as a Tibetan answer to the Indian Karma Sutra and indeed it tallies the different types of bodys, the best positions, how to treat a woman both in and out of hte bedroom and a host of other issues for lovers everywhere in a tone that is warm, considerate and sexy. I foudn this much more readable than the Karma Sutra and better written as well. Enjoy!

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T. Short

A Must Read!!!

January 6, 2005

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Everything you ever wanted to know... and more. Unflinching details, well written, and thorough. Somehow more accessible than the Kama Sutra.

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Kimberly R Eades (kreades@geocities.com)

excellence in self freedom

October 20, 1999

Format: Paperback

we wonder if the feelings we have are too bounded & we learn that the tendency is -- yes -- we do restrict ourselves. something, aweful. & this text assures us that our inclinations to be children in bed, as well as in our hearts, is a key to the liberation & empowerment we seek & can find in a partner; like iron sharpening iron . . .

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