Writings

A selection of original articles created for this website that can be opened and read in PDF, or downloaded for free.

While not professing to be authoritative texts, they aspire to broaden our understanding of certain key elements within Eastern sacred traditions.

It is intended to publish additional articles here as they become available.

  1. Principal Figures of Tibetan Buddhist Iconography
    A concise reference to 45 prominent Buddhas, bodhisattvas, primordial figures,tantric deities, dakinis and Dharma protectors
  2. The Hierarchical Structure of Practice in the Guhyasamāja Tantra
    The progressive cultivation of enlightened body, speech and mind in the Ārya tradition of Highest Yoga Tantra
  3. The Thirty-Two Functions of Human Integration
    The sixteen kalās, Vajrayāna contemplative psychology, and a proposed framework for psychological development and therapy
  4. Yogacara and Madhyamaka – From Philosophical Discernment to Contemplative Realization
    The historical development of two Mahāyāna approaches to consciousness, emptiness, and the cultivation of liberating wisdom
  5. The Sixteen Body Archetypes and Energetic Compatibility
    Constitutional differentiation, male–female complementarity, and their application in Tibetan tantric practice
  6. The Primordial Ground and Its Threefold Revelation
    Dzogchen, the Christian Trinity, and the reciprocal relationship between ultimate reality, manifestation and spiritual realization