| Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle Contributor(s): Trungpa, Chogyam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0877736367 ISBN-13: 9780877736363 Publisher: Shambhala OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1991 Annotation: According to the mandala principle, a prominent feature of tantric Buddhism, all phenomena are part of one reality. Whether good or bad, happy or sad, clear or obscure, everything is interrelated and reflects a single totality. As Chogyam Trungpa explains in this work, from the perspective of the mandala principle, existence is orderly chaos. There is chaos and confusion because everything happens by itself, without any external ordering principle. At the same time, whatever happens expresses order and intelligence, wakeful energy and precision. Through meditative practices associated with the mandala principle, the opposites of experience--confusion and enlightenment, chaos and order, pain and pleasure--are revealed as inseparable parts of a total vision of reality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - Tibetan - Philosophy | Eastern - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 294.343 |
| LCCN: 91052527 |
| Series: Dharma Ocean Series |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.51" W x 8.46" (0.60 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: According to the mandala principle, a prominent feature of tantric Buddhism, all phenomena are part of one reality. Whether good or bad, happy or sad, clear or obscure, everything is interrelated and reflects a single totality. As Ch gyam Trungpa explains in this work, from the perspective of the mandala principle, existence is orderly chaos. There is chaos and confusion because everything happens by itself, without any external ordering principle. At the same time, whatever happens expresses order and intelligence, wakeful energy and precision. Through meditative practices associated with the mandala principle, the opposites of experience--confusion and enlightenment, chaos and order, pain and pleasure--are revealed as inseparable parts of a total vision of reality. |