A Concise Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism

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ISBN: 9781559392969 | 1559392967
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Copyright: 4/28/2008

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Lucid and economical, this introductory text delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey of Tibetan Buddhism. For many years Powers's nearly 600-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive overview of Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of meditation and tantra and provides a survey of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Technical Note	p. 7
Introduction	p. 11
The Indian Background	p. 17
Origins of Tibetan Buddhism	p. 17
The Buddha	p. 18
The Buddha's Teaching Career	p. 26
Mahayana	p. 31
Origins	p. 31
Mahayana Doctrines	p. 36
The Bodhisattva Path	p. 38
Some Important Buddhist Doctrines	p. 45
Karma and Rebirth	p. 45
Dependent Arising	p. 50
Meditation	p. 55
The Role of Meditation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism	p. 55
Stabilizing and Analytical Meditation	p. 58
The Five Buddhist Paths	p. 60
Tantra	p. 63
The Place of the Tantras in Buddhist Literature	p. 63
Tantra as a Branch of Mahayana	p. 67
Tantric Symbols	p. 72
Entering Tantric Practice	p. 74
The Four Classes of Tantra	p. 79
The Preliminary Practices	p. 85
Death and Dying in Tibetan Buddhism	p. 94
The Four Orders	p. 103
Similarities and Differences	p. 103
The Nonsectarian Movement	p. 106
Nyingma	p. 110
Kagyu	p. 117
Sakya	p. 126
Geluk	p. 133
Lexicon of Buddhist Terms	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 149
English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Glossary	p. 153
Terms	p. 153
Names	p. 157
Locations	p. 159
Titles of Works Mentioned	p. 160
Index	p. 161
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