HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

Tantric Buddhism

Gedun Chopel et.al., Tibetan Arts of Love, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1992.

Daniel Cozort, Highest Yoga Tantra, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1986.

Ronald M. Davidson, Indian Esoteric Buddhism: a Social History of the Tantric Movement, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Ronald M. Davidson, Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture and the Rise of Sakya, New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Keith Dowman, Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.

Bernard Faure, The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

David N. Gellner, Monk, Householder and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Herbert V. Guenther, The Tantric View of Life, Berkeley, CA: Shambhala, 1972.

Herbert V. Guenther and Chogyam Trungpa, The Dawn of Tantra, Berkeley, CA: Shambhala, 1975.

Peter D. Hershock, Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch’an Buddhism, Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.

Jeffrey Hopkins, The Tantric Distinction: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, London: Wisdom Publications, 1984.

Jeffrey Hopkins, Sex, Orgasm and the Mind of Clear Light: The Sixty-Four Arts of Gay Male Love, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1998.

Jeffrey Hopkins, Tantra in Tibet, Diederichs GmbH and Co., KG, Verlag Eugen, 1999.

Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Reginald A. Ray, Secret of the Vajra World: the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, Boston: Shambhala, 2002.

Khetsun Sangpo, Tantric Practice in Nying-Ma, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1982.

Miranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

David L. Snellgrove, “Tibetan Buddhism” in The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, ed., New York: Macmillan, 1987, 2, 493-498.

David L. Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors, Boston: Shambhala, 1987.

John Stevens, Lust for Enlightenment: Buddhism and Sex, Boston: Shambhala, 1990.

Chogyam Trungpa, Journey Without Goal: The Tantric Wisdom of the Buddha, Boston: Shambhala, 1985.

Chogyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom, Boston: Shambhala, 1991.

Chogyam Trungpa, The Lion’s Roar: An Introduction to Tantra, Boston: Shambhala, 1992.

Yeshe Tsogyal, Dakini Teachings, Boston: Shambhala, 1990.

Vesna A. Wallace, The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Alex Wayman, Buddhist Tantra: Light on Indo-Tibetan Esotericism, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1973.

Alex Wayman, “Esoteric Buddhism”, in The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade, New York: Macmillan, 1987, 2, 472-482.

Lama Yeshe, Introduction to Tantra: the Transformation of Desire, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1987.

Chou Yi-Liang, “Tantrism in China”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1945, 8, 241-332.

Serinity Young, Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography and Ritual, Oxford, 2005.

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