Three Early Vajrayana Treatises: The Accomplishment of Wisdom and Means, The Accomplishment of Gnosis and the Accomplishment of Non-Duality

This work is a translation of three early Indian Vajrayana treatises from the Sanskrit by three of the early Buddhist Tantric adepts renowned as Mahasiddhas, numbering by the most accepted account eighty-four, who flourished in the medieval era of India from the 8th-12th centuries C.E. The three authors are related by guru-disciple lineal succession, though the first two Anangavajra and Indrabhuti were most likely contemporaries and the third, Laksimnkara was the sister of Indrabhuti and hence his contemporary also. The treatises expound the world-view of Tantric Buddhism, (a.k.a. as Vajrayana and Guhyamantrayana) on the basis of the early Peerless Yoga Tantras (Anuttara Yoga Tantra) such asGuhyasamaja,HevajraandCakrasamvaraand the commentaries by earlier Mahasiddhas such as Saraha (Sororuha) and Nagarjuna. The treatises in chronological order areThe Accomplishment of the Ascertainment of Wisdom and Means(Prajnopayavinisscayasiddhi)by Anangavajrain five (5) chapters, theAccomplishment of Gnosis(Jnanasiddhi) in twenty (20) chapters andThe Accomplishment of the Non-Dual(Advayasiddhi).in just 0ne (1) chapter of 24 verses.Read more