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Wearing the Body of Visions
by Ngakpa Chogyam

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Author: Ngakpa Chogyam
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Illustrated
Published: 1996-06-12
ISBN: 1898185034
Number of pages: 277
Publisher: Wisdom Books

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Book Review: An illuminating explanation of the Mandala perspective
Summary: 5 Stars

If perhaps you find yourself being in the process of sorting out the true mandala of your (non)being, then this book may add to your understanding. Main elements of Tibetan Buddhist Tantrayana are discussed in a very illuminating, lively way.

"Tantra is limitless dance. The dance of our senses with their corresponding sense fields - divided yet undivided, separate yet non-dual. The play of emptiness and form is the fabric of experience - the life-blood of Tantra."

This "limitless dance" is further explained as a trinity of realms:
"Emptiness, the sphere of unconditioned potentiality;
Energy, the visionary sphere of intangible appearance;
Form, the sphere of realised manifestation."

"Emptiness and form, in their essential undivided nature as the dance of reality, comprise the primal source of vision. This primal source is a continual outpouring of avenues back into itself. Every pattern that springs spontaneously out of this space is communication - a self-existing method by which our intrinsic nature can be realized. Such a pattern allows us to realize the unbounded space of what we are (...) because the irridescent splendor of inner [and outer] vision completely overawes our habitual self-concepts."

"Now, what is meant by "kyil-khor" (mandala of primal irridescence)? There are two kyil-khors - that of inner space and that of external space. There is a continual exchange of energy between them. In the dualistic condition, they appear to be divided, and we seem somehow at odds with the phenomenal world.
The basis of all siddhis (enlightened qualities) is however the ability to allow the internal and external kyil-khors (mandalas) to be undivided."

"To arise as the Tantric deity (yidam), is to wear the body of visions [title of this book]. This is what is called, living the view. Living the view, or living sacred outlook, means that we experience the world around us as the realized dimension of the deity."

- I like this book, and propose it to the interested reader, if you feel affinity with the above quotations from the book. It has certainly provided me with some typical missing links regarding the true nature of the subjects discussed.
Another book by this author, "Spectrum of Ecstasy; Embracing the Five Wisdom Emotions of Vajrayana Buddhism" (ISBN 1590300610) may also interest you (though I would rate that one with 4 stars).

"In true love, two mandalas mirror each other."

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