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Author Evola, Julius, 1898-1974.

Title The doctrine of awakening : the attainment of self-mastery according to the earliest Buddhist texts / Julius Evola ; translated from the Italian by H.E. Musson.

Publication Info. Rochester, VT : Inner Traditions, 1995.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  294.3422 E93D    Check Shelf
Description xx, 246 pages ; 23 cm
Contents I: PRINCIPLES -- 1. Varieties of Ascesis -- 2. The Aryan-ness of the Doctrine of Awakening -- 3. The Historical Context of the Doctrine of Awakening -- 4. Destruction of the Demon of Dialectics -- 5. The Flame and Samsaric Consciousness -- 6. Conditioned Genesis -- 7. Determination of the Vocations -- II: PRACTICE -- 8. The Qualities of the Combatant and the "Departure" -- 9. Defense and Consolidation -- 10. Rightness -- 11. Sidereal Awareness: The Wounds Close -- 12. The Four Jhana: The "Irradiant Contemplations" -- 13. The States Free from Form and the Extinction -- 14. Discrimination Between the "Powers" -- 15. Phenomenology of the Great Liberation -- 16. Signs of the Nonpareil -- 17. The Void: "If the Mind Does Not Break" -- 18. Up to Zen -- 19. The Ariya Are Still Gathered on the Vulture's Peak.
Note Includes index.
"Originally published in Italian as La dottrina del risveglio"--T.p. verso.
Subject Spiritual life -- Buddhism.
Buddhism -- Doctrines.
Added Author Musson, H. E.
Added Title Dottrina del risveglio. English
ISBN 0892815531
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