Other sources of information on Tantric Buddhism

[Guest guest]

Dear Jai Gopal Kaur,

 

For much more on Tantric Buddhism, you should try to buy some of the following

books:

Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa

Marpa, the Translator

The Tibetan book of Great Liberation, by Evans-Wentz

Tibetan Yoga and the Secret Doctrines

100,000 Songs of Milarepa

http://www.kagyu-asia.com/l_nar_life1.html

 

You might also try to contact the Naropa Institute http://www.naropa.edu/

 

Another good book is "Cutting through Spiritual Materialism" Trumpa Rimpoche

 

http://www.google.com/u/naropa?q=Tantric+Buddhism&sa=Go

 

The Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries where built around Tantric Yoga practices, many

of which are similar to and the same as many of the Kundalini Yoga practices as

taught by Yogi Bhajan. In some sense, the manner in which yogi Bhajan was able

to amass these vast teachings to disseminate to the world again is similar to

the story of how Marpa was able to amass the Tantric Teachings of Naropa,

Tripola and a number of other Tantrics in Southern India, and return them to

Tibet, before the Moguls came down and destroyed the place of learning (100,000

students) around the year 1,000.

 

There's a vast amount of information available on Tantra that is much more than

sex. Reading some of these books would also give some more insight into the

practice of Kundalini Yoga.

 

All these traditions and yogas and religions are all interlinked from ancient

times. Just as a matter of interest, just as there is a tracing of the lineages

of Adam to David and David to Christ, I met a Sikh that was studying the

spiritual history of the Sikh Gurus and teachings who explained that Guru

Nanak's lineage traces him back to Lord Rama.

 

>From time to time, due to cataclysmic / planetary events, disease, war,

destruction, and so on, these teachings are lost, destroyed, disbursed and

fragmented, but every so often there are some that re-amass the teachings and

teach them widely throughout the world.

 

Pieter

 

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Message: 5

Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:01:58 -0700 (PDT)

gaijin yogi <jaigopalkaur

spirituality and sexuality questions

 

Sat Nam everyone,

 

This is Jai Gopal Kaur from Japan.

 

I've already written Gururattan K. to ask for help, but I thought I'd post to

the group, as well.

 

I'm taking a Human Sexuality class at UC Santa Cruz this summer. This week I'm

slated to give a presentation on "Tantric Buddhism" with a few of my fellow

students.

 

All of the junk I'm finding online only seems to make the topic more confusing

for me. The trouble seems to be (even within my group) is that everyone seems to

be

equating "Tantric Buddhism" with "Tantric Sex." I'd like to present the

spiritual aspects of it, and also explain that Tantra isn't all about sex --

there is white tantra, red tantra and black tantra, etc. etc.

 

Does anyone out if Tantric Buddhism is or is not related to the development of

Tantric Sex?

 

Also, any ideas on how to describe Tantra (the non-sexual) to the non-yogis in

my class?

 

Is there anything in "Spirituality and Sexuality" that would be especially

useful to my presentation?

 

Hmm...maybe I can just talk about the relationship between spirituality and

sexuality in general.

 

I look forward to any light any of you can shed on this in the next couple of

days.

 

Thanks and sat nam!!

 

Jai Gopal Kaur

 

 

[Guest guest]

The Siri Gaitri Mantra - ramadasasasesohung - if done with one

steady tone is considered the "tibetan" way to chant it because that

mantra is closely linked to Tibetan Bhuddist tradition as it was

practiced by the yogis, who themselves would often to travel to the

Golden Temple to bow at the house of Guru Ram Das. Doing that

meditation will help you tune into that pure fire energy, before it

was mixed with the Bon Shaman methods more widely know as Tibetan

Bhuddism today.

 

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