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Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism
by Sangharakshita
|  Tantric
Buddhism is concerned with the direct experience
of who we are and what we can become. Its sole aim
is to help us realize our potential for profound
wisdom and unbounded compassion by transforming the energy locked in by old habits,
fears, and narrow views. For the Tantra this experience cannot be mediated by
concepts; it is beyond words and thought, beyond the everyday mind and personality.
But it can be evoked with the help of symbols.
Without the help of a reliable guide one could easily get lost or overwhelmed
in this unfamiliar world of symbols. Sangharakshita is such a guide, having received
initiations and teachings in India from some of the most important Tibetan teachers
of the twentieth century.
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1899579478
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Believe
nothing merely because you have been told it... Do not believe
what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the
teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,
you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit,
the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling
to and take it as your guide.
The Buddha
