Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Grea...
Geisshuesler, Flavio
Through a rigorous analysis of original scriptures and later commentaries, this book unearths a cornucopia of idiosyncratic motifs pervading the famous Tibetan sky-gazing meditation known as "Skullward Leap" (thod rgal). Flavio Geisshuesler argues that these motifs suggest that the practice did not originate in the context of Buddhism, but rather within indigenous Tibetan culture and in close contact with the early Bön tradition. The book argu...