Month: July 2023
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Chapter 3: Reflection 13 – Like Awaiting the Arrival of a Dearly Loved Friend
Writing from Jesus College at Oxford on Easter Day 1927, Walter Evans-Wentz ends the “Preface” to his first edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead with these words of commission: Thus, under the best of auspices, this book is sent forth to the world, in the hope that it may contribute something to the…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 12 – Seeing from the In-Between
After this the over part of my body began to die, so farforth that unneth I had any feeling. My most paine was shortnes of winde and failing of life. Then wened I sothly to have passed. And sodenly all my paine was taken from me and I was as hole, and namely in the…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 11 – Tunnel Vision and the Penetrating Gaze
After this my sight began to faile, and it was all darke aboute me in the chamber as if it had ben night, save in the image of crosse, wherein held a common light, and I wiste not how. All that was beseid the cross was oglye and ferful to me, as if it had…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 10 – Visions for the Path
Tsongkhapa’s visions of Mañjuśrī represent a primary aspect of his mystical life, however, his visions were not limited solely to the Buddha of wisdom. For he also had visions of Atisa, the 11th century Indian scholar and practitioner who is credited with having reestablished Buddhism in Tibet, after a period of the tradition’s decline. Atisa’s…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 