Tibetan Yoga: Principles and Practices

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Ian A. Baker studied literature and comparative religion at Oxford University and Columbia University. He is an initiate of Buddhist as well as Taoist and Hindu Tantric lineages and lived for more than 25 years in India and Nepal where he studied with some of the greatest luminaries of the Tibetan tradition, including H.H. the Dalai Lama. An international fellow of the Explorers Club and the Royal Geographic Society, he has led travel seminars in Tibet, Bhutan, and Myanmar. The author of 7 books, he was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition "Tibet’s Secret Temple" at the Wellcome Collection, London.

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"A visual presentation of Tibetan yoga, the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition"--

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Foreword by the venerable Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche

Introduction

I Outer, inner, secret
Yoga in Indo-Tibetan tradition

II Elemental wisdom
The varieties of meditative experience

III Immaculate perception
Freeing the imagination

IV Enlightened anatomy
The yoga of channels, winds and essences

V Flowering wholeness
The yoga of magical movement

VI Incandescence
The yoga of unbound fire

VII Numinous passion
The alchemy of desire

VIII Noetic light
The infinite brightness of being

IX Dreamtime
The yoga of lucid sleep

X Exit strategies
The yoga of transcendent death

XI Liminality
Navigating transitional states

XII Potent solutions
The yoga of entheogens and elixirs

XIII Primal radiance
The yoga of innate perfection

**Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes and resources

Picture credits

Index