Secret Doctrines of the Tibetan Books of the Dead by Detlef Ingo Lauf tr by Graham Parkes (1989).pdf

Secret Doctrines of

the Tibetan Books of the Dead

DETLEF INGO LAUF

Translated by Graham Parkes

SHAMBHALA

Boston & Shaftesbury

1989

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lauf, Detlef Ingo.

(Geheimlehren tibetischer Totenbiicher. English)

Secret doctrines of the Tibetan Books of the Dead / Detlef Ingo

Lauf; translated by Graham Parkes.

p. cm.

Translation of: Geheimlehren tibetischer Totenbiicher.

ISBN 0-87773-103-9

1. Intermediate state—Buddhism. 2. Funeral rites and

ceremonies. Buddhist—China—Tibet. 3. Death—Religious

aspects—Buddhism. 4. Buddhism—China—Tibet. I. Title.

BQ4490.L413 1989

89-10117

294.3'423—dc20

CIP

Contents

Introduction / ix

I The Traditions of the Tibetan Books of the Dead / 1

11 Basic Elements of Wisdom about Life and Knowledge about

the After-Death State and Rebirth / 13

1. Life, Karma, Death, and Rebirth / 15

2. The Trikaya Doctrine as the Basis of the

Initiations / 23

3. The Six Kinds of Bardo and Other " Intermediate

States" / 33

A. The First Group of Three Bardos as

Intermediate States for the Transformation of

Awareness in This Life / 36

B. The Second Group of Three Bardos as

Intermediate States for the Guidance of

Awareness in the World Beyond / 38

C. Bardo as the Indivisible Union of the

Essential / 43

4. On the Symbolism of Tantric Polarity, the Trinity,

the Quaternity and the Fivefold, and of Colors and

Elements / 47

A. From Unity to Multiplicity / 49

B. Duality as an Expression of Polarity / 50

C. Threefold Articulations / 53

D. Some Groups of Four / 58

E. The Fivefold Arrangement of the Mandala / 62

F. The Six Realms of Incarnation / 68

G. Other Symbolic Groupings / 71

5. The Death Ritual as Guidance through the Bardo / 74

6. Signs in the Transition between the Two Worlds and

the Primordial Light at the Onset of Death / 87

III The Great Ritual of the Initiations into the Mandalas of the

Peaceful and Wrathful Deities / 97

1. The Peaceful Deities / 99

A. The Adibuddha as the Mystical Creator of the

Mandala / 101

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