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Title: The Sweet Sage and The Four Yogas: A Lost Mahāyoga Treatise from Dunhuang
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Sam van Schaik
One Sentence Summary: This article presents a previously unknown tantric treatise from the Dunhuang collections which shows how Mahāyoga and Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) or Atiyoga were closely associated with each other during this early stage in their development

Description: Creator's Description: This article presents a previously unknown tantric treatise from the Dunhuang collections. Dating to the ninth or tenth century, the treatise is an early and important example of the Tibetan assimilation of Indic tantric Buddhism, in particular the form known as Mahāyoga. The treatise is especially interesting for showing how Mahāyoga and Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) or Atiyoga were closely associated with each other during this early stage in their development. The treatise, which is based on the work of a previously unknown Indic teacher called Madhusādhu, is translated here in full, along with an annotated transcription.

Publisher: Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Normalized publisher place: Charlottesville, VA
Publisher country: United States
Publisher URL: http://www.thlib.org
Published Date: 2008-12
URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#jiats=/04/vanschaik/
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- Journals Focused on Regions -- Tibet -- JIATS -- Issue 4 (December 2008)
Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- THL-Hosted Online Journals -- JIATS -- Issue 4 (December 2008)
Cultural Coverage: India
Tibet
Language: English
Source URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#jiats=/issue04/
Source: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
Source Editor: David Germano
José I. Cabezón
Source Type: Journal
Source Number: 4
ISBN/ISSN: 1550-6363

Means of availability: Also available as a PDF at http://texts.thlib.org/static/reprints/jiats/04/vanschaikJIATS_04_2008.pdf

Access rights: Public domain
Format: Online resource
Media type: Text
Resource Type: Article
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Date Last Modified: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
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