Karmamudra
Subtitle: the yoga of bliss : sexuality in Tibetan medicine and Buddhism
By: Dr. Nida Chenagtsang ; edited by Ben Joffe (Jigmé Dorje)
Contributors: Joffe, Ben, editor, translator
Edition: First English Edition.
Publisher: Sky Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780997731989
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Yoga; Tantric Buddhism; History; Sex; Buddhism; Spiritual life; Spiritual healing; Tibetan Medicine; Buddhist medicine
Other titles: Yoga of bliss :; Sexuality in Tibetan medicine and Buddhism
Description: "Karmamudra refers to the ancient Buddhist practice of partnered sexual yoga. Also known as 'The Path of Skillful Means' or 'The Path of Great Bliss', Karmamudra uses powerful meditation techniques to transform ordinary pleasure, worldly desire, and orgasm into vehicles for spiritual transformation and liberation. In this ground-breaking book, Dr Nida Chenagtsang draws on his extensive training in Tibetan medicine and yoga to clarify major misconceptions relating to Tibetan Buddhist Tantra in general and Tibetan Buddhist sexual yoga practices in particular. Demystifying sexual yoga without depreciating it, Dr Nida provides an overview of the relationship between Sutric and Tantric orientations in Tibetan Buddhism, offers explanations of Tantric vows, initiations, and subtle anatomy, and explores both bio-medical and traditional Tibetan ideas about sexual health and well-being. Speaking in a colloquial style as a physician, teacher, yogi, and parent, he addresses issues of sexual abuse, well-being and empowerment in a learned, down-to-earth and compassionate way. Aiming to inform and empower, this book offers vital context and instructions through which beginner and advanced students of any gender or sexual orientation can learn to engage with typically destructive and distracting emotions in a skillful way. Drawing on special Karmamudra teachings found in the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition that are aimed at practitioners without any prior training in tantric yoga, it offers safe and simple methods through which students can work with the raw energy of their desire and transform it into a source of blessings and benefit in their everyday lives"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-351).

Primarily in English, with some parallel texts in Tibetan and English translations.
Table of contents: title: Karmamudra prophecy; title: Prefaces; title: Introduction : Generating bodhicitta; title: Clarifying confusion. Karmamudra today ; Common myths and misconceptions about Karmamudra ; The future of Karmamudra; title: Sutra and Tantra : renunciation and transformation. Introducing the Buddhist path ; Sutra and Tantra : distinguishing the two paths ; Nyingma and Sarma : the old and new schools ; Worldly versus wisdom sex; title: Tantric subtle anatomy. The real you : Yoga and the Vajra Body ; Tsa, loong, thiglé; title: Stages of Karmamudra practice. Authentic motivation and the Tantric preliminaries ; Empowerment, transmission, and instruction ; Practicing at your own pace and level ; The actual practice; title: Medicine, science, and health. The inner science and the healing science ; The science of Tantric yoga ; Karmamudra and sexual health; title: Conclusion : dedication of merit; title: Appendices : Karmamudra texts. The Karmamudra practice of sun and moon chudlen or alchemical elixir extraction / Lelung Jedrung Zhepai Dorje (1697-1740) ; Stages of instruction on the swift path of the great bliss of primorial purity / Tokden Shakya Shri (1853-1919) ; Teaching song / Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Wang (1892-1940) ; Excerpts from the Treatise on desire / Nida Chenagtsang (1971-); title: Yuthok's song.