Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

✍ Scribed by Connelly, Ben

• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1614293082

✦ Synopsis

A practical guide to Vasubandhu's classic work "Thirty Verses of Consciousness Only"that can transform modern life and change how you see the world.

In this down-to-earth book, Ben Connelly sure-handedly guides us through the intricacies of Yogacara and the richness of the Thirty Verses.Dedicating a chapter of the book to each line of the poem, he lets us thoroughly lose ourselves in its depths. His warm and wise voiceunpacks and contextualizes its wisdom, showing ushow we canapply its ancient insights to our own modern lives, to create a life of engaged peace, harmony, compassion, and joy.

In fourth-century India one of the great geniuses of Buddhism, Vasubandhu, sought to reconcile the diverse ideas and forms of Buddhism practiced at the time and demonstrate how they could be effectively integrated into a single system. This was the Yogacara movement, and it continues to have great influence in modern Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only, or Trimshika, is the most concise, comprehensive, and accessible work by this revered figure.

Vasubandhus Thirty Verses lay out a path of practice that integrates the most powerful of Buddhisms psychological and mystical possibilities: Early Buddhisms practices for shedding afflictive emotional habit and the Mahayana emphasis on shedding divisive concepts, the path of individual liberation and the path of freeing all beings, the path to nirvana and the path of enlightenment as the very ground of being right now. Although Yogacara has a reputation for being extremely complex, the Thirty Verses distills the principles of these traditions to their most practical forms, and this book follows that sense of focus; it goes to the heart of the matterhow do we alleviate suffering through shedding our emotional knots and our sense of alienation?

This is agreat introduction to a philosophy, a master, and a work whose influence reverberates throughout modern Buddhism.

Has Cover : Yes
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
All Identifiers : amazon:1614292841, goodreads:29430534, google:o9ycDQAAQBAJ, isbn:9781614292845
Single Author : Ben Connelly
Original Source : New_Files_Oatmeal_05_17_A
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Connelly, Ben
Title Length : 051
Title Parm D : Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara_A Practitioner's Guide
Title Parm F : Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara_A Practitioner's Guide
Num of Aut : 1
Title Parm B : (
ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-05
Record ID : 106391
Uncomma Author : Ben Connelly
Title Parm A : Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara_A Practitioner's Guide