Guhyasamaja Practice in the Arya Nagarjuna System, Volume One

The Guhyasam?ja Tantra is one of the Unexcelled Yoga Tantras of Vajrayana Buddhism. In the initial, generation-stage practice, one engages in a prescribed sequence of visualizations of oneself as an enlightened being in a divine environment in order to prepare one's mind and body to engage in the second stage, the completion stage. The latter works directly with the subtle energies of ones's mind and body and transforms them into the enlightened mind and body of a buddha. In this book, Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa provides illuminating commentary on, and explanations of, every part of the self-generation ritual of Guhyasam?ja. These instructions, which are usually imparted only orally from master to student after the student has been initiated into the Guhyasam?ja mandala, are now being published in English for the first time.