This book is the repository of paramount important teachings. Which have been transmitted to the people of the Occident from most illustrious Teachers of Tibet and India. For the first time in English. The chief purpose of the book is to show the way not only to intellectual understanding but to actual psychic realization of the Nirvanic goal proclaimed by Gautama, the Buddha. And in as much as no other treatise quite like this treatise has yet appeared in the Western World, it promises to become of epoch-making importance, both psychologically and culturally, and to assist in fostering better understanding between the East and the West.
The paramount teachings of the most illustrious teachers of Tibet and India, who have transmitted their teachings to the people of Occident, are the base of this book. In Book I, hereof, an account of the marellous superhuman life and secret doctrines of the Great Guru Padmasambhava. Book II expounds the quintessence of the Supreme Path, the Mathayana, and reveals the yogic methods of attaining the Great Liberation of Nirvana by means of knowing the one mind.
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