The Tibetan book of the great liberation
Subtitle: or, The method of realizing nirvāna through knowing the mind, preceded by an epitome of Padma-Sambhava's biography and followed by Guru Phadampa Sangay's teachings.
By: According to English renderings by Sardar Bahādur S.W. Laden La and by the Lāmas Karma Sumdhon Paul, Lobzang Migyur Dorje, and Kazi Dawa-Samdup. Introductions, annotations, and editing by W.Y. Evans-Wentz. With psychological commentary by C.G. Jung.
Contributors: Padma Sambhava, ca. 717-ca. 762.; Ye-śes-mtsho-rgyal, 8th cent.; Phadampa Sangay, fl. 1100.; Jung, C. G. 1875-1961.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Buddhism.; Nirvana.; Yaga.
Notes: Reprint of first edition, 1954.
Table of contents: value: Psychological commentary, by C.G. Jung.; value: General introduction, by W.Y. Evans-Wentz.; value: An epitome of the life and teachings of Tibet's great guru Padma-Sambhava, according to the biography by his chief disciple Yeshey Tshogyal, based upon excerpts rendered into English by the late Sardar Bahādur S.W. Laden La, assisted by Lāma Sonam Senge.; value: Here follows the [yogo of] knowing the mind, the seeing of reality, called self-liberation, from "The profound doctrine of self-liberation by meditation upon the peaceful and wrathful deities," by Padma-Sambhava, according to Lāma Karma Sumdhon Paul's and Lāma Lobzang Mingyur Dorje's English rendering.; value: The last testamentary teachings of the Guru Phadampa Sangay, according to the late Lāma Kazi Dawa-Sandup's English rendering.