The Kusali Yogi: Vinaya, Tantric Yoga, and the Internalization of Practice in the Early Kagyupa Tradition

This book offers a new interpretation of early Kagyupa Buddhism by demonstrating that Vinaya, tantric yoga, and mahāmudrā are not separate domains but integrated aspects of a single path. Focusing on Jikten Sumgön and his lineage, it shows how disciplined conduct functions as a method for transforming the mind and stabilizing awareness. Tantric practices involving channels, winds, and bindus are reinterpreted as techniques for generating and regulating experience, subordinate to realization...