A Treatise on Mind: Volume 7A

Description

The Constitution of Shambhala is volume seven, part A from a seven volume treatise on Mind.

Whilst the numbers of Buddhists are growing in the world, the techniques and discourses of Buddhism have not changed to meet the radically different conditions of the contemporary world. Thus Buddhism needs a true restorative flowering to rival that of the renaissance of debate and innovative thinking of the early post-Nāgārjunian era. In order to achieve this it must synthesise the present wealth of scientific knowledge, alongside the best of the Western world’s philosophical output – this is the primary task of this seven volume treatise. It is principally a study of the complex interrelationship between mind and phenomena, from the gross to the subtle—the physical, psychic, supersensory and supernal. This entails an explanation of how mind incorporates all phenomena in its modus operandi, and how eventually that mind is liberated from it, thereby becoming awakened.

A Treatise on Mind Outline

• Volume 1  The “Self” or  “Non-self” in Buddhism
• Volume 2  Considerations of Mind—A Buddhist Enquiry
• Volume 3  The Buddha-Womb and the Way to Liberation
• Volume 4  Maṇḍalas: Their Nature and Development
• Volume 5  An Esoteric Exposition of the Bardo Thödol (Part A and B)
• Volume 6  Meditation and the Initiation Process
• Volume 7  The Constitution of Shambhala (Part A and B)