Dreams of Power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western ImaginationThis book is an account of the impact of Tibetan Buddhism upon the Western imagination. Topics such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, spiritual science and sacred technology, and the New Monasticism are discussed. |
Contents
| 13 | |
TIBET DISCOVERED | 22 |
EASTERN RELIGION WESTERN IMAGINATION | 42 |
THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD A GUIDEBOOK TO WESTERN FANTASY | 53 |
SPIRITUAL SCIENCE SACRED TECHNOLOGY | 77 |
THE NEW MONASTICISM | 93 |
IMAGES OF SPIRITUAL TRANSMISSION | 107 |
TIBETAN BUDDHISM AN ARCHETYPAL APPRAISAL | 124 |
NOTES | 139 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 147 |
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Dreams of Power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western Imagination Peter Bishop No preview available - 1993 |
Dreams of Power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western Imagination Peter D. Bishop No preview available - 2001 |
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alchemy Alexandra David-Neel archetypal psychology Bardo Thödol belief betan Bodhisattvas Buddha C. G. Jung Christianity claims consciousness continuity Dalai Lama David-Neel Dead death deities depth psychology dhism divine Dorje Chang East Eastern religion Evans-Wentz evoked example exile experience exploration fantasy Father frontier Gampopa geographical Govinda Guru high lamas Hillman Himalayas human ideas imagery images incarnation individual Jung's karma Karmapa landscape Lhasa Lineage Tree London mandala Maraini Marco Pallis Matthiesson meditation metaphors Milarepa monastic monasticism monks mountains mystical nineteenth century occult organization Pallis paradox philosophy practices psyche psychic reality reincarnate lamas relationship religious ritual sacred scientific senex shamanism social spiritual Spring Publications structure struggle symbolic teachings techniques Tibet Tibetan Book Tibetan Bud Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan culture Tibetan religion Tibetan system Tibetan text tion tradition transmission twentieth century Vajrayāna West West's Western fantasies Western imagination whilst wisdom wrote Yidam York Younghusband
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Page 14 - In other respects Breton's book illustrates well a number of the basic characteristics of this "profane illumination." He calls Nadja "a book with a banging door." (In Moscow I lived in a hotel in which almost all the rooms were occupied by Tibetan lamas who had come to Moscow for a congress of Buddhist churches. I was struck by the number of doors in the corridors that were always left ajar. What had at first seemed accidental began to be disturbing. I found out that in these rooms lived members...
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Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'the Mystic East' Richard King No preview available - 1999 |
Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought J.J. Clarke No preview available - 2002 |