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Naked Seeing
Christopher Hatchell
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Description for Naked Seeing
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: HREX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 237 x 33. Weight in Grams: 718.
Naked Seeing investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bön and Buddhist traditions: practices in which a meditator spends long periods of time in a dark room or gazing at the open sky, with the goal of experiencing luminous visions. The book examines these practices in two major esoteric traditions, known as the Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). As both of these traditions began experimenting with sensory deprivation, they found that immersion in darkness or light resulted in unusual experiences of seeing, and those experiences could then be used as gateways to pursuing some of the classic ... Read more
Naked Seeing investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bön and Buddhist traditions: practices in which a meditator spends long periods of time in a dark room or gazing at the open sky, with the goal of experiencing luminous visions. The book examines these practices in two major esoteric traditions, known as the Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). As both of these traditions began experimenting with sensory deprivation, they found that immersion in darkness or light resulted in unusual experiences of seeing, and those experiences could then be used as gateways to pursuing some of the classic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199982912
SKU
V9780199982912
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About Christopher Hatchell
Chris Hatchell teaches in the field of Asian religions, with particular interests in Tibetan religion. His research focuses on Tibet, particularly the Bön religion and a system of philosophy and practice called the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). He is especially interested in pursuing visual studies related to religious traditions, and his main research has been on Buddhist visionary practices.
Reviews for Naked Seeing
Naked Seeing is a veritable tour de force of previously under and unexplored Tibetan textual material from the so-called Tibetan Renaissance period... This work is perhaps the first of its kind to explore Tibetan Buddhist practices that employ the act of seeing, looking, staring, or even not-seeing anything at all.
Berthe Jansen, University of Leiden
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Berthe Jansen, University of Leiden
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