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PART I The Call to Awaken

1.  Man and His Symbols, edited by C.G. Jung (London: Pikador, 1978).

2.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter VIII, verses 10-15. Trans. Stephen Batchelor (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1979). All quotations from Shantideva cited in this book are from Batchelor’s translation.

3.  “The truth of cessation” is the third of the four noble truths taught by the Buddha in his first turning of the wheel of Dharma.

4.  Arya Maitreya & Asanga, The Changeless Nature, The Mahayana Uttara Tantra Shastra, trans. Ken and Katia Holmes (Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire, Scotland: Kagyu Samye Ling, 1985), p. 34.

5.  John Welwood, Towards a Psychology of Awakening (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2002), p. 11.

6.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter V, verse 13.

7.  Stephen Batchelor, Flight: An Existential Concept of Buddhism (Delhi: Buddhist Publication Society, 1984).

8.  Rob Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra (Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2006); previously published in the UK under the title The Alchemical Buddha (Devon, UK: Mudra, 2000).

9.  Arya Maitreya & Asanga, The Changeless Nature, p. 31.

10.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter 1, verse 28.

11.  Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, The Grail Legend (Boston: Sigo Press, 1986), p. 40.

12.  Herbert V. Guenther, trans. Kindly Bent to Ease Us (Emeryville, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1976).

13.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter III, verses 29-32.

14.  C. G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 5 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), pp. 330, 510.

15.  C.G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 12 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980), pp. 71, 118.

16.  Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Berkeley: Shambhala Publications, 1973).

17.  Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (London: Fontana, 1993), p. 73.

18.  Herbert V. Guenther, The Life and Teaching of Naropa (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 34.

19.  Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, The Tibetan Tradition of Mental Development (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1974), p. 112.

20.  Erich Fromm, The Fear of Freedom (London: Routledge, 2001).

21.  Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By (New York: Viking, 1972), p. 106.

22.  C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 9, Part 1 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), p. 275.

23.  C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 7 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966), p. 171.

24.  C. G. Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 8 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969), p. 226.

25.  Ibid.

26.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter VII, verses 49-55.

27.  H.H. the Dalai Lama, Universal Responsibility and the Good Heart (Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1976).

28.  C.G. Jung, Psychology and Religion, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 11 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969), p. 391.

29.  Jung, as cited by Anthony Stevens in Archetype: A Natural History of the Self (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990), p. 92.

30.  Rob Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Chapter 5.

31.  Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, The Grail Legend, p. 40.

32.  Ibid., p. 50.

33.  Erich Neumann, Amor and Psyche (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press/Bollingen Foundation, 1956).

34.  Marie-Louise von Franz, Puer Aeternus: A Psychological Study of the Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood (Boston: Sigo Press, 1970), Chapter 1.

35.  Fromm, The Fear of Freedom.

36.  Dakini: a female figure who has achieved a depth of spiritual insight principally with the practice of Tantra. The Dakini can be seen as both literal and symbolic. See Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Chapter 16.

37.  Herbert V. Guenther, The Life and Teaching of Naropa (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 24.

38.  Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Chapter 6.

39.  Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, pp. 36, 41.

40.  James Hillman, et al., Puer Papers (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1979), p. 23.

41.  Von Franz, Puer Aeternus, p. 5.

PART II Encountering the Shadow

1.  Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 97.

2.  Ibid., p. 59.

3.  Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, pp. 284, 513.

4.  Garma C.C. Chang, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa (New York: Harper Colophon, 1970), p. 5.

5.  Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Chapter 14.

6.  Walter F. Otto, Dionysus: Myth and Cult (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1965).

7.  Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Chapter 15.

8.  Ibid., Chapter 6.

9.  Keith Dowman, Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1988).

10.  John Welwood, Towards a Psychology of Awakening (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2002), p. 11.

11.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter V, verse 14.

12.  Anthony Storr, The Art of Psychotherapy (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994), pp. 138-139.

13.  Peter A. Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1997), p. 111.

14.  This is taken from a verse within the Heruka Sadhana of Pabongka Rinpoche, in an unpublished translation.

15.  See, for example, The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Tsong-kha-pa, trans. Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee, ed. Cutler and Newland (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000-2002), vol. 1, chapter 4.

16.  Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, p. 121.

17.  Ibid., p. 398.

18.  Hillman et al., Puer Papers, p. 20.

PART III The Path of Individuation

1.  Jung, Psychology and Religion, p. 144.

2.  Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

3.  C. G. Jung, Alchemical Studies, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 13 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983).

4.  Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, p. 375.

5.  Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, The Grail Legend, pp. 10-11.

6.  Ibid., pp. 67-73.

7.  Twelve Russian Fairytales, translated by Thomas P. Whitney (London: Evans Bros., 1974), Chapter 7.

8.  Hillman et al., Puer Papers, Chapter 5.

9.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter VII, verses 54, 55, 66.

10.  Robert Bly, Iron John: A Book About Men (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990), p. 5.

11.  For example, the “Six-session Guru Yoga” by Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche (unpublished translation by Alex Berzin) sap:

From this moment on until I am Buddha

May I never give up though my life be at stake,

The attitude wishing to gain full enlightenment

In order to free from the fears of samsara

And nirvana’s complacency all sentient beings.

12.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter I, verse 19.

13.  Ibid., Chapter III, verses 29-32.

14.  Ibid., Chapter I, verse 10.

15.  Thirty-seven Practices of all Buddhas’ Sons by Togme Zangpo, trans. Alex Berzin, verses 2, 5.

16.  Shantideva, A G uide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, chapter VIII, verses 25-27.

17.  Murray Stein, In Midlife: A Jungian Perspective (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1983), p. 24.

18.  Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter VII, verses 47-49.

19.  Ibid., Chapter III, verses 8, 11, 18, 21.

20.  Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (London: Virago, 1991), p. 23.

21.  Dowman, Masters of Enchantment.

22.  Edwin Bernbaum, The Way to Shambhala (Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1980), p. 201.

23.  Levine, Waking the Tiger, p. 5.

24.  Elizabeth Wilde McCormick, Surviving Breakdown (London: Vermilion, 1997).

25.  Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, pp. 36, 41.

26.  Stein, In Midlife: A Jungian Perspective, p. 24.

27.  Jung, Symbols of Transformation, pp. 330, 510.

28.  Jung, Psychology and Religion, p. 258.

29.  Sylvia Brinton Perera, Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1981), p. 70.

30.  Bernbaum, The Way to Shambhala, p. 199.

31.  Energy-wind body: Tib. lung ku. See Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Chapter 8.

32.  Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 82.

33.  Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening (London: Bloomsbury, 1998).

34.  Garma C. C. Chang, The Six Yogas of Naropa, (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1986), pp. 25-30.

35.  Heart Sutra, unpublished translation by Alex Berzin.

36.  Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

37.  Herbert V. Guenther, The Royal Song of Saraha: A Study in the History of Buddhist Thought (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1973), pp. 135-136.

38.  See, for example, D. T. Suzuki’s Manual of Zen Buddhism (New York: Grove Press, 1960), Part IV, section 8.

39.  Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, p. 335.

40.  Primordial mind: Tib. nyug sem. Commentary on the “Song of the Spring Queen” by Geshe Jhampa Tekchok, unpublished manuscript.

41.  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Clear Light of Bliss (London: Wisdom Publications, 1982), p. 139.

42.  Oral commentary by Gen Jhampa Wangdu and others on Pabongka Rinpoche’s Heruka Body Mandala teachings.

43.  Alaya: a term used in particular schools of Buddhist philosophy, principally the Yogachara, or Chittamatra (“mind only”), school, to denote a consciousness that acts as the basis of all relative appearances, i.e., a universal consciousness. This view is refuted by the Prasangika Madhyamaka school, which holds no such universal consciousness to exist.

44.  Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Chapter II.4.

45.  Jung, Symbols of Transformation, Chapter 5.

46.  Preece, The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Chapter 18.

47.  Zopa Rinpoche, The Wish-fulfilling Golden Sun (Kathmandu, Nepal: Kopan Monastery, 1973).

48.  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Clear Light of Bliss, p. 211.