{"product_id":"naked-seeing-christopher-hatchell-9780199982912","title":"Naked Seeing: The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet","description":"Buddhism is in many ways a visual tradition, with its well-known practices of visualization, its visual arts, its epistemological writings that discuss the act of seeing, and its literature filled with images and metaphors of light. Some Buddhist traditions are also visionary, advocating practices by which meditators seek visions that arise before their eyes. \u003cem\u003eNaked Seeing\u003c\/em\u003e investigates such practices in the context of two major esoteric traditions, the Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). Both of these experimented with sensory deprivation, and developed yogas involving long periods of dwelling in dark rooms or gazing at the open sky. These produced unusual experiences of seeing, which were used to pursue some of the classic Buddhist questions about appearances, emptiness, and the nature of reality. Along the way, these practices gave rise to provocative ideas and suggested that, rather than being apprehended through internal insight, religious truths might also be seen in the exterior world-realized through the gateway of the eyes. Christopher Hatchell presents the intellectual and literary histories of these practices, and also explores the meditative techniques and physiology that underlie their distinctive visionary experiences.\u003cbr\u003eThe book also offers for the first time complete English translations of three major Tibetan texts on visionary practice: a Kalacakra treatise by Yumo Mikyo Dorjé, \u003cem\u003eThe Lamp Illuminating Emptiness\u003c\/em\u003e, a Nyingma Great Perfection work called \u003cem\u003eThe Tantra of the Blazing Lamps\u003c\/em\u003e, and a Bön Great Perfection work called \u003cem\u003eAdvice on the Six Lamps\u003c\/em\u003e, along with a detailed commentary on this by Drugom Gyalwa Yungdrung.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Hatchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199982910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199982912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2015 pg. 1517","brand":"Christopher Hatchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913409855743,"sku":"9780199982912","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_cf765fa7-5b7f-46a1-ad43-68305115c3fb.jpg?v=1680620267","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/naked-seeing-christopher-hatchell-9780199982912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}