The Tibetan book of the great liberation: or, The method of realizing nirvana through knowing the mind, preceded by an epitome of Padma-Sambhava's biography and followed by Guru Phadampa Sangay's teachings. According to English renderings by Sardar Bahädur S.W. Laden La and by the Lāmas Karma Sumdhon Paul, Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, and Kazi Dawa-Samdup.

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The Tibetan book of the great liberation: or, The method of realizing nirvana through knowing the mind, preceded by an epitome of Padma-Sambhava's biography and followed by Guru Phadampa Sangay's teachings. According to English renderings by Sardar Bahädur S.W. Laden La and by the Lāmas Karma Sumdhon Paul, Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, and Kazi Dawa-Samdup.

Subject

Buddha and Buddhism
Nirvana
Yoga

Creator

Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (Walter Yeeling), editor

Publisher

London, New York, Oxford University Press

Date

1954

Contributor

introductions, annotations, and editing by W.Y. Evans-Wentz ; with psychological commentary by C.G. Jung ; with a new foreword by Donald S. Lopex, Jr

Table Of Contents

Psychological commentary, by C.G. Jung.--General introduction, by W.Y. Evans-Wentz.--An epitome of the life and teachings of Tibet's great guru Padma-Sambhava, according to the biography by his chief disciple Yeshey Tshogyal, based upon excerpts rendered into English by the late Sardar Bahādur S.W. Laden La, assisted by Lāma Sonam Senge.--Here follows the [yogo of] knowing the mind, the seeing of reality, called self-liberation, from "The profound doctrine of self-liberation by meditation upon the peaceful and wrathful deities," by Padma-Sambhava, according to Lāma Karma Sumdhon Paul's and Lāma Lobzang Mingyur Dorje's English rendering.--The last testamentary teachings of the Guru Phadampa Sangay, according to the late Lāma Kazi Dawa-Sandup's English rendering.

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Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (Walter Yeeling), editor, “The Tibetan book of the great liberation: or, The method of realizing nirvana through knowing the mind, preceded by an epitome of Padma-Sambhava's biography and followed by Guru Phadampa Sangay's teachings. According to English renderings by Sardar Bahädur S.W. Laden La and by the Lāmas Karma Sumdhon Paul, Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, and Kazi Dawa-Samdup.,” Humanities Hub, accessed December 23, 2024, https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/811.