This collection contains four of the most cherished Tibetan Buddhist commentaries on the practices of visualization, mantra recitation, and meditative absorption—elements that form the core of development stage meditation, one of the most important practices of Buddhist Tantra. The texts within this volume—Ladder to Akaniṣṭha, Clarifying the Difficult Points in the Development Stage, The Four Stakes That Bind the Life-Force, and Husks of Unity—are among the most widely studied commentaries on this topic and have ...

"In this book you will find the first three sects of instructions for the Tantrik group AMOOKOS (the Arcane and Magickal Order of the Knights of Shamhala). For the first time, we reveal publicly the methods, rites and philosophy pursued by an inner group of initiates within the Order. This book shows how the esoteric strands of east and west are fused together into a practical system which has as its purpose the unveiling of ...

The Tantric Alchemist is a work on alchemy as decoded by Tantra and a work on Tantra as understood by alchemists. It uncovers works by Thomas Vaughan and suggests how he and his wife--a 17th-century Welsh couple unique in the history of western alchemy--met their fate when dealing with forces they knew only too well, but which were stronger than their ability to control them. Using the works of Vaughan as his text, Levenda applies ...