The creative vision : the symbolic recreation of the world according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Tantric visualization otherwise known as the developing phase

CREATIVE VISION ......Page 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......Page 6 CONTENTS ......Page 7 INTRODUCTION ......Page 8 PART ONE: WESTERN PERSPECTIVE......Page 18 PRELUDE ......Page 20 BEING’S HOLOMOVEMENT AND THE TWO REALITIES ......Page 21 THE SYMBOLIC RE-CREATION PROCESS ......Page 27 IN-DEPTH APPRAISALS AND PHASE TRANSITIONS ......Page 38 IMAGINATION AND THE SYMBOLIC RECREATION OF THE WORLD ......Page 47 THE IMAGINATIVE RECAPITULATION OF MORPHO- AND ONTOGENETIC PROCESSES ......Page 65 CONCLUSION ......Page 74 PART TWO: EASTERN PRESENTATION......Page 76 THE TRANSLATION......Page 77 [INTRODUCTION] ......Page 80 A. THE GENERAL PREPARATION ......Page 82 (I) Tonic ......Page 89 A. TUNING-IN TO A STATE OF COMPOSURE......Page 90 (I) The In-depth Appraisal of Being-in Its-beingness......Page 91 (2) The In-depth Appraisal of a World-spanning Lighting-up......Page 92 (3) The In-depth Appraisal of a Causal-Momentum......Page 93 [A Summary of the In-depth Appraisals] ......Page 94 (a) Terracing the Fundamental Forces......Page 95 (b) The Erection of the Palace......Page 96 [The Palace Symbols] ......Page 98 (c) Setting Up the Throne......Page 100 (a) The Activation Procedure ......Page 101 [The Calm Aspect]......Page 104 [The Fierce Aspect] ......Page 105 (2) The Request to Be Seated ......Page 112 (a) The External Act......Page 113 (i) Tonic......Page 114 (i) Coupling ......Page 115 (ii) Loosening......Page 116 (3) The Praise ......Page 117 (2) The Consolidation of the Proud Feeling of Being an Aspect of the Whole of Being ......Page 118 (4) The Holistic Experience of Bliss, Lucency, and Openness ......Page 119 B. REMAINING TUNED IN WHEN REEMERGING FORM THE STATE OF COMPOSURE......Page 120 CONCLUDING REMARKS ......Page 122 NOTES ......Page 128 Works m Western Languages ......Page 178 Tibetan Works (by known authors) ......Page 180 Sanskrit and Prakrit works ......Page 183 Sanskrit & Pali ......Page 185 Tibetan ......Page 186 INDEX OF SUBJECTS ......Page 191