Key to the Precious Treasury. A Concise Commmentary on the General Meaning of the Glorious Secret Essence Tantra entitled: Key to the Precious Treasury.
Ithaca NY: Snow Lion, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 372pp. Blue cloth spine with grey papered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Glossary, list of works cited, notes and index. Parallel text. From the publisher: "The tantra of the Glorious Secret Essence (the Guhyagarbha Tantra) primarily belongs to the category of Mahayoga. It is taught that this Secret Essence Tantra extracts the essence of the eighteen Mahayoga tantras as well as being the general tantra of enlightened mind. The twenty-two chapters of this tantra afford an explanation of the three tantras of the ground path and result and within the context of the tantra of the path, the ten topics of tantra. As the author Dodrupchen Tenpa'i Nyima himself has said, this glorious Secret Essence Tantra possesses eight great features. It is the king of all tantras, pinnacle of all vehicles, origin of all doctrines, general commentary for all scriptural transmissions, core wisdom, intent of all the victorious ones, ultimate state of all results, path that all tathagatas have embarked upon, and great path of all true practitioners. Commentary to the Guhyagarbha Tantra, the Key to the Precious Treasury, synthesizes the meaning of all eighteen Mahayoga tantras from the perspective of the author's personal realization and authoritative scholarship. As the means through which serious practitioners can realize the truth of inseparable purity and evenness, this teaching is the guide for knowing how to internalize the Secret Mantra path of the generation and completion stages." Appears unread, upper corners bumped otherwise a tight, clean Fine copy in lightly rubbed & creased VG+ dust jacket. Item #57502
ISBN: 9781559393515
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