Naked Seeing
The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet
Christopher Hatchell
Reviews and Awards
"Naked Seeing is a veritable tour de force of previously under and unexplored Tibetan textual material from the so-called Tibetan Renaissance period... This work is perhaps the first of its kind to explore Tibetan Buddhist practices that employ the act of seeing, looking, staring, or even not-seeing anything at all." Berthe Jansen, University of Leiden
"This superb study brings to light some of the most esoteric and innovative contemplative practices ever to emerge within Asian religions. In clear and engaging terms, Hatchell explores how the visionary techniques of the Kalacakra and Great Perfection traditions work to undo our deeply engrained psychophysical habits and open us to new ways of seeing. The result is a study that will appeal not only to scholars and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, but to anyone interested in the phenomenology of sensory perception." --Jacob P. Dalton, UC Berkeley
"This book by Hatchell is a significant, comprehensive study of visionary experiences among medieval Tibetan Buddhists and the philosophical debates prompted by them about the nature of appearances, emptiness, and enlightenment... Constituting an important contribution to the growing body of scholarly work on the philosophical and mystical dimensions of medieval Tibetan Buddhism, this work is strongly recommended for college and university libraries... Highly recommended." --CHOICE
