Tibet And the Tibetans

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Tibet And the Tibetans
Sandberg, Graham, 1852-1905
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In the second century A.D., however, came Nagarjuna to the front promulgating the Madhyamika system, the Buma-pa (S^^'^'^) of the Tibetans. Systems which are based on via media principles and compromise make a good bid for popularity. But there is evidence to shew that Nagarjuna made his tenets more inviting by initiating the ideas embodied afterwards in the Tantras. Later, the Yogacharya school developed the same ideas so as to apply them to all sorts of particular wants mundane as well as spi
...ritual. Padma Sambhawa and his successors brought the system to its grossest development with machinery and purview most material.
The Tantrik system started with the profession of high perspec- tive and lofty aims. Its goal was wisdom, perfection, and Nirvana as much as any other Buddhist philosophy ; but it made use of all the powers and resources of man^s being and all the help of an enr larged pantheon of mythological personages in order to attain the end. Meh^s powers of memory were to be availed of to the full by the exercise of learning strings of innumerable syllables, nonsense in exterior form, but said to be replete intrinsically with mystic meaning 216 THE TANTRAS AND TANTRIK RITES.


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