Snellgrove, David L : Hevajra Tantra - A Critical Study

New paperback edition Long out of print, this was the first full scholarly English translation of this Buddhist highest yoga tantric text.

Now all in one volume this academic early translation (first published in 1959) includes the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts in phonetics with the Yogaratnamala commentary on the tantra.

Part 1: Introduction and Translation. Part 2: Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts.

In this groundbreaking work, Snellgrove presents a full translation of, and commentary on, the Hevajra Tantra, providing not only deep insight into arguably the most important surviving tantric Buddhist text but also placing the entire corpus of such works into a more accurate context.

Snellgrove presents the Hevajra Tantra, and tantric texts of this class, not as degenerate products of a faith in terminal decline in India - as has often been falsely claimed by puritanical scholars - but rather as a wholly legitimate expression of esoteric ritual and meditative practice developed as a natural evolution within the Madhyamika tradition.

While based primarily on Nepalese editions of the text, the translator makes extensive reference to the Tibetan translation as well as extant Indian commentaries. The first half of the work comprises an introduction and the actual translation with detailed annotations, while the second consists of the Romanized original Sanskrit and Tibetan texts with an extensive glossary.