Aryana Libris

Author : Chang Garma C. C.
Title : Teachings of tibetan yoga
Year : 1963

Link download : Chang_Garma_C_C_-_Teachings_of_tibetan_yoga.zip

Introduction. The author-translator of this book was born in China into a highly-placed family some forty years ago. In early youth he broke out of this pattern to become the disciple of a Buddhist Guru, in a part of China near Tibet. His Guru sent him to Tibet to further his training. After eight years in Tibetan monasteries, six of them under one Guru, he came West to study animal husbandry and to bring this knowledge back to Tibet. The Communist victory in China and the Communist invasion of Tibet cut him off from · return. His devotion to Tibetan Buddhism can now best be expressed by translating into English the unknown teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. Last year he gave us the first complete translation of The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, the principal religious work of Tibet. Now he gives us, in a short and extremely concentrated book, an introduction to the spiritual, mental, and physical exercises of his religion. He is writing not only as a Chinese Buddhist scholar telling us about the Tibetan variety of Buddhism but, even more, as a Chinese who has become a Tibetan Buddhist. He has sought to make this fact precise by giving up his original Chinese name, Chen-chi Chang, and adopting a Tibetan name, Garma C. C. Chang. This 'bQok is most profitably read, then, not as a scholarly work but as an introduction to a religion by which its author-translator lives. Furthermore, this book will most profitably be read by those Westerners who have really left behicd denominational parochialism. To put it quite. plainly, we are publishing this book for an audience of educated laymen in the Western world who have ceased to be Christian, at least in any traditional sense. We are publishing this book for the reader who understands that all the great religions belong to him as part of his human past, that he "belongs" to none of them. ...