November 26, 2007
Recommended Reading: Tantra
Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List
Selected Topics
Tantra
Daniel Cozort. Highest Yoga Tantra. ISBN: 1559390360
Explores the Tantric practices of generation and completion meditations leading to enlightenment. Emptiness and bliss are two main themes in the book.
Shri Dharmakirti. Mahayana Tantra: An Introduction. ISBN: 0143028537
Shri Dharmakirti, practitioner of Mahayana Buddhist Tantra, is a disciple of the current Dalai Lama. He received initiations and instructions in the practice of highest secret mantra and was inducted into the lineage of Lama Tsongkhapa.
Georg Feuerstein. Tantra: Path of Ecstasy. ISBN: 157062304X
Feuerstein’s work, drawn from Hindu sources, deals with the non-sexual aspects of Tantric practice. In the book he has assembled an important selection of Hindu, Tantric, and Shaivite texts difficult to find elsewhere.
Kelsang Gyatso Geshe. Guide to Dakini Land: The Highest Yoga Tantra Practice of Buddha Vajrayogini. ISBN:0948006390
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Tantra, the Supreme Understanding: Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa’s Song of Mahamudra. ISBN: 0880506431
Unlike most Tantra authors, Bhagwan Rajneesh, also known as Osho, was undeniably a great Tantric master. This fact lends significant weight to his many publications on Tantra and sacred sexuality.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Kundalini Tantra. ISBN: 8185787158
Swami Satyananda Saraswati founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964. This text explores practices to awaken the kundalini energy.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Meditations from the Tantras. ISBN: 8185787115
This book helps readers turn every action of life into an act of sadhana (spiritual practice) using meditation techniques which have their origin in Tantra.
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. Sakti, the Power in Tantra: A Scholarly Approach. ISBN: 0893891541
The Dalai Lama Tsong-Ka-Pa and Jeffrey Hopkins. Deity Yoga: In Action and Performance Tantra. ISBN: 0937938505
Teaches the meditative techniques of Action and Performance Tantras.
The Dalai Lama Tsong-Ka-Pa and Jeffrey Hopkins. Tantra in Tibet. ISBN: 0937938491
Excellent discussion of the Tantric doctrine of emptiness.
Wei Wu Wei. Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen–Advaita–Tantra. ISBN: 1591810116
David Gordon White, ed. Tantra in Practice. ISBN: 0691057788
This book includes plays, transcribed interviews, poetry, parodies, inscriptions, instructional texts, scriptures, philosophical conjectures, dreams, and astronomical speculations. There are thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, and ranging from the seventh century to the present day.
LamaYeshe, Philip Glass and Jonathan Landaw, ed. Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire. ISBN: 0861711629
This is primarily a non-sexual exploration of Tantra. Al particularly liked the section on the subject of death and after death.
Explores the Tantric practices of generation and completion meditations leading to enlightenment. Emptiness and bliss are two main themes in the book.
Shri Dharmakirti. Mahayana Tantra: An Introduction. ISBN: 0143028537
Shri Dharmakirti, practitioner of Mahayana Buddhist Tantra, is a disciple of the current Dalai Lama. He received initiations and instructions in the practice of highest secret mantra and was inducted into the lineage of Lama Tsongkhapa.
Georg Feuerstein. Tantra: Path of Ecstasy. ISBN: 157062304X
Feuerstein’s work, drawn from Hindu sources, deals with the non-sexual aspects of Tantric practice. In the book he has assembled an important selection of Hindu, Tantric, and Shaivite texts difficult to find elsewhere.
Kelsang Gyatso Geshe. Guide to Dakini Land: The Highest Yoga Tantra Practice of Buddha Vajrayogini. ISBN:0948006390
A thorough explanation of the Tantric practice of Vajrayogini, the female Buddha of wisdom, this text provides detailed instructions on the eleven yogas of the generation stage and an explanation of the essential completion stage practices leading to enlightenment. Also included are methods for transforming ordinary daily activities into spiritual meditations.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Tantra, the Supreme Understanding: Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa’s Song of Mahamudra. ISBN: 0880506431
Unlike most Tantra authors, Bhagwan Rajneesh, also known as Osho, was undeniably a great Tantric master. This fact lends significant weight to his many publications on Tantra and sacred sexuality.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Kundalini Tantra. ISBN: 8185787158
Swami Satyananda Saraswati founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964. This text explores practices to awaken the kundalini energy.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Meditations from the Tantras. ISBN: 8185787115
This book helps readers turn every action of life into an act of sadhana (spiritual practice) using meditation techniques which have their origin in Tantra.
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. Sakti, the Power in Tantra: A Scholarly Approach. ISBN: 0893891541
This book clarifies how Tantric philosophy and practice unify the concepts of yantra, mandala, mantra, chakra, kundalini, deities, and ritualistic and meditative practices. It explains the relationship among the different branches of Tantra, including an exploration of some of the controversy concerning the differences between right-hand (non-sexual) and left-hand (sexual) Tantric practices.
The Dalai Lama Tsong-Ka-Pa and Jeffrey Hopkins. Deity Yoga: In Action and Performance Tantra. ISBN: 0937938505
Teaches the meditative techniques of Action and Performance Tantras.
The Dalai Lama Tsong-Ka-Pa and Jeffrey Hopkins. Tantra in Tibet. ISBN: 0937938491
Excellent discussion of the Tantric doctrine of emptiness.
Wei Wu Wei. Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen–Advaita–Tantra. ISBN: 1591810116
Wei Wu Wei, who has become an underground cult figure, explores the essential doctrine shared by the traditions of Zen Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, and Tantra. Born in Ireland in 1895 and raised in England, he attended Oxford and then traveled extensively throughout Asia, spending some time at the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi. He published eight books before his death in 1986 at age 90.
David Gordon White, ed. Tantra in Practice. ISBN: 0691057788
This book includes plays, transcribed interviews, poetry, parodies, inscriptions, instructional texts, scriptures, philosophical conjectures, dreams, and astronomical speculations. There are thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, and ranging from the seventh century to the present day.
LamaYeshe, Philip Glass and Jonathan Landaw, ed. Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire. ISBN: 0861711629
This is primarily a non-sexual exploration of Tantra. Al particularly liked the section on the subject of death and after death.
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