Tantric Grounds and Paths - How to Progress on, and complete the Vajrayana Path

by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

These days there is great interest in the practice of Tantra, and an urgent need for a comprehensive guide to its practice written by a fully qualified Tantric Master. Based on a completely pure lineage of instruction and practice that dates back to Buddha himself, Tantric Grounds and Paths meets this need by providing a definitive manual for Tantric practitioners.

With remarkable clarity and authority Geshe Kelsang presents a comprehensive guide to the four classes of Tantra, including an extensive explanation of the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra. All the stages of the Tantric path of full enlightenment are described in breathtaking detail, making the publication of this book an event of major contemporary importance in the history of Buddhist literature.

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. The Lower Tantras
3. Highest yoga tantra
4. Generation stage
5. Isolated body
6. Isolated speech and isolated mind
7. Illusory body, clear light, and union
8. The final results
9. Dedication

Appendices:

1. The condensed meaning of the text
2. The preliminary practices
i) Great liberation of the mother
ii) Great liberation of the father
iii) An explanation of the practice

Bibliography

Study programmes

Index

About the Author

Geshe Kerisang Gyatso was born in Tibet and is a fully accomplished meditation Master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism. Living in the West since 1977, he is the author of a series of highly acclaimed books that transmit perfectly the ancient wisdom of Buddhism to our modern world. He has also founded many Buddhist Centers throughout the world.