Book showing Channels in the Body
Book showing Channels in the Body
Can someone reccommend a good book showing the channels in the body? I have some material from retreats and teachings I've gone to over the years, but I'm looking for something a bit more detailed with front and side views.
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
They might not always be the same. You might want to look for something specific to the practices you are focusing on.mr. gordo wrote:Can someone reccommend a good book showing the channels in the body? I have some material from retreats and teachings I've gone to over the years, but I'm looking for something a bit more detailed with front and side views.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Hi Gordo,
there will soon be a book on this topic published by Shang Shung publications. It is a translation of the text by Gyalwa Yangongpa called Rdo rje lus kyi sbas bshad which was done by Elio Gaurisco. This text is supposed to be a complete description of all the 72000 channels, but I have no clue whether there will be illustrations of all of this. It should be out this year, but who knows?
there will soon be a book on this topic published by Shang Shung publications. It is a translation of the text by Gyalwa Yangongpa called Rdo rje lus kyi sbas bshad which was done by Elio Gaurisco. This text is supposed to be a complete description of all the 72000 channels, but I have no clue whether there will be illustrations of all of this. It should be out this year, but who knows?
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
dzoki wrote:Hi Gordo,
there will soon be a book on this topic published by Shang Shung publications. It is a translation of the text by Gyalwa Yangongpa called Rdo rje lus kyi sbas bshad which was done by Elio Gaurisco. This text is supposed to be a complete description of all the 72000 channels, but I have no clue whether there will be illustrations of all of this. It should be out this year, but who knows?
This is an interesting book. It does not describe 72,000 channels in detail however.
People should however know that it is Sarma tradition. There is also the Third Karmapa's book, zang mon nang don i.e profound inner topics.
People should understand that the presentation in Nyingma is different in important ways.
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Thanks Nangwa, dzoki and Namdrol.
Perhaps I should have been more specific when I said "detailed". I'm not looking for diagrams of all 72,000 channels. I'm more concerned with the 3 major ones. Specifically how they link to the crown of the head, between the eyes and below the naval. Also I think I've been misunderstanding how (and if) they connect to the urethra and anus. This misunderstanding is a bit disturbing to me as I'm concerned about the status of my practice now. That's why a side view is important for me since the front view diagrams I have aren't that clear. This is in reference to Sarma tradition too. PM's would be much appreciated.
Perhaps I should have been more specific when I said "detailed". I'm not looking for diagrams of all 72,000 channels. I'm more concerned with the 3 major ones. Specifically how they link to the crown of the head, between the eyes and below the naval. Also I think I've been misunderstanding how (and if) they connect to the urethra and anus. This misunderstanding is a bit disturbing to me as I'm concerned about the status of my practice now. That's why a side view is important for me since the front view diagrams I have aren't that clear. This is in reference to Sarma tradition too. PM's would be much appreciated.
I don't suppose this is in English Namdrol?There is also the Third Karmapa's book, zang mon nang don i.e profound inner topics.
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
mr. gordo wrote:Thanks Nangwa, dzoki and Namdrol.
Perhaps I should have been more specific when I said "detailed". I'm not looking for diagrams of all 72,000 channels. I'm more concerned with the 3 major ones. Specifically how they link to the crown of the head, between the eyes and below the naval. Also I think I've been misunderstanding how (and if) they connect to the urethra and anus. This misunderstanding is a bit disturbing to me as I'm concerned about the status of my practice now. That's why a side view is important for me since the front view diagrams I have aren't that clear. This is in reference to Sarma tradition too. PM's would be much appreciated.
I don't suppose this is in English Namdrol?There is also the Third Karmapa's book, zang mon nang don i.e profound inner topics.
Yes, Zabmo Nangdon has been translated by E. Callahan.
According the Kalacakra, three channels in question govern feces elimination (avadhūtī); ejaculation/menstruation (rasanā) and urination (lalanā).
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Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Portions of the Zabmo Nangdon have been translated into English.....Snow Lion's Luminous Heart contains, to the best of my knowledge, the only bits so far translated, and they don't relate to the subtle body, if I recall.
http://www.amazon.com/Luminous-Heart-Co ... 1&sr=8-1#_
Even in the Sarma systems, the arrangement and descriptions of the channels can differ. It's really quite specific to the practice you have been given. Kalachakra is almost completely different from, say, Vajrayogini/Vajravarahi.....
http://www.amazon.com/Luminous-Heart-Co ... 1&sr=8-1#_
Even in the Sarma systems, the arrangement and descriptions of the channels can differ. It's really quite specific to the practice you have been given. Kalachakra is almost completely different from, say, Vajrayogini/Vajravarahi.....
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"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Namdrol wrote:
Really? What's the English title, if you know?Yes, Zabmo Nangdon has been translated by E. Callahan.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
conebeckham wrote:Namdrol wrote:Really? What's the English title, if you know?Yes, Zabmo Nangdon has been translated by E. Callahan.
http://www.nitarthainstitute.org/public ... rtha.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at the bottom.
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Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Many thanks, Namdrol!
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Yes, thanks so much for this! I hope the diagrams clarify what I'm looking for.Namdrol wrote:
http://www.nitarthainstitute.org/public ... rtha.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at the bottom.
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Is this useful for all Vajrayana students? Are there any restrictions on its purchase?Namdrol wrote: http://www.nitarthainstitute.org/public ... rtha.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at the bottom.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
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Pero wrote:Is this useful for all Vajrayana students? Are there any restrictions on its purchase?Namdrol wrote: http://www.nitarthainstitute.org/public ... rtha.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at the bottom.
Yes and yes.
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And what are they? Ngondro?Namdrol wrote:Yes and yes.Pero wrote:Is this useful for all Vajrayana students? Are there any restrictions on its purchase?Namdrol wrote: http://www.nitarthainstitute.org/public ... rtha.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at the bottom.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Pero wrote:
And what are they? Ngondro?
I think you have to write them and ask.
Re: Book showing Channels in the Body
Completed ngondro it is. Bummer.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar