In this sixth and final volume in the Foundation of Buddhist Thought
series, Geshe Tashi Tsering brings his familiar, helpful approach to the
esoteric practices of Buddhist tantra. Anticipating the many questions
Westerners have upon first encountering tantra's colorful imagery and
veiled language, Tantra uses straight talk to explain deities,
initiations, mandalas, and the body's subtle physiology of channels and
chakras.
Tantric Buddhism provides a quick avenue to buddhahood by means of
dissolving the body's wind energies into the central channel at the
heart, mimicking the transformations of consciousness that occur at the
time of death. Guiding readers systematically from tantra's generation
stage through to the full enlightenment of the completion stage, Geshe
Tashi Tsering even unpacks a simple compassion practice composed by the
Dalai Lama, using it to illustrate the building blocks common to all
such visualization techniques.
Tantra is a fitting conclusion to this accessible and practical
series.