The Beatific Experience of Being: A Phenomenology of The Chakrasamvara Tantra

Rudolph Bauer

doi:10.32351/rca.v5.132

Authors

Rudolph Bauer Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-007X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v5.132

Política de Crossmark DOI: https://doi.org/10.32351/politica-crossmark

Keywords:

tantra, Chakrasamvara, beatific vision, luminous awareness

Abstract

This article is a phenomenological elaboration of the Chakrasamvara Tantra. The Tibetan Chakrasamvara Tantra brings forth a naturalistic understanding of the process of the Embodiment of Being and the process of the invocation of the Bliss of Embodied Being. The Chakrasamvara Tantra, beautifully describes the experience of the Beatific Vision of Being, as well the invocation of the Beatific experience of Being, the Beatific experience of primordial luminous awareness.

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Author Biography

Rudolph Bauer, Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P. and Co-Director of The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and Director of The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies. For a number of years He was Director of Psychology Training at The University of Maryland Medical School and also taught at Johns Hopkins University. He did post doctoral studies in phenomenology at The Institute of Time Perspective at Leuven, Belgium. He has studied the Tantra of Kashmir Shavism with Swami Muktananda and has studied Dzogchen with many Tibetan Lama's including Lama Tharchen, Lama Norhla, and many others. He is an Existential Psychoanalyst in Washington,DC and is currently opening a Center for Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica, California. His website for published papers on tantra and phenomenology is rudolphbauer.academia.edu. The website of The Washington Center is meditatelive.com. Through video streaming he consults and leads seminars with people in many different countries.

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