Naked Seeing

Naked Seeing : The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet, 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 Buddhist questions about appearances, emptiness, and the nature of reality. This book presents the intellectual and literary histories of these practices, and also explores the meditative techniques and physiology that underlie their distinctive visionary experiences.

Isbn / Product Code - 9780199982912

Dimensions - 15.05 x 2.08 x 23.03 cm

Printed Pages - 471

Format - Paperback

Year Of Publication - 2014

Publisher - Oxford Press

Author - Christopher Hatchell