Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition

Name: Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition
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ISBN: 9781559392921

ISBN-10: 1559392924

ISBN-13: 9781559392921

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alejandro Chaoul, Yongdzin Lopon Tenzi Namdak, Tenzin Wangyal

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This book is the first to trace the history of Chod practice in Tibet's indigenous Bon tradition. Chod (cutting through) is a meditative practice in which the practitioner imagines offering his or her body in sacrifice through elaborate contemplative visualization. Although a meditative practice, Chod is not done sitting comfortably on a cushion in a shrine room, but instead is often practiced in terrifying places like cemeteries or charnal grounds. The feelings of fear that result are used by the Chod practitioner to cut through his or her own ego. Chod contains elements of early shamanism, of sutric and tantric teachings also found in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and of the Tibetan highest…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Technical Note


Introduction: Enchanted by the Melody


Ch&oumlet;d: Offering One's Body


Ch&oumlet;d in the B&oumlet;n Religion


Conclusion


Epilogue



The Laughter of the Skygoers



Secret Mother Tantra Index (dkar chags)



Annotated Bibliography of Ch&oumlet;d Texts from the B&oumlet;n Tradition


Selected Bibliography


Notes