The Buddhist Tantras: Light on Indo-Tibetan Esotericism By Alex Wayman background and practice

background and practice

a cautionary tale about loyalty and betrayal

It is within the context of tantric worship that devotees seek to identify themselves with these forbidding goddesses

dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness

It is 1839

The Buddhist Tantras: Light on Indo-Tibetan Esotericism By Alex Wayman background and practiceThe author here reprints a number of his published Tantra essays, and writes some others to fill out this work. It has much material not readily available elsewhere in Western language sources. It concludes with a correlation of the two Tantra collections of Tibetan Buddhist canon, which are the revealed Tantra in the Kanjur, and exegetical works in the Tanjur. The work is leavened with illustrations and drawings. This book has been divided into four