By Daniel Cozort - Highest Yoga Tantra

This book contains clear, understandable and fairly detailed information about the Tibetan Buddhist concept of Highest Yoga Tantra. I recommend it without reservation to anyone interested in this subject.

This is a great book, but in fact you will need a previous knowledge and experience to go deeply inside it. The author wrote a brief but excellent lines about some of the most essentials points of Highest Yoga Tantra: generation and completion stages, divine pride, 4 joys, differences about illusory bodies, renunciation, compassion, wisdom, clear light, etc. Rather, in the final part, Daniel Cozort compares Kalachakra and Guhyasamaja stages of completion. This is not a book that deeply discusses the matter, neither a list of sadhanas practices, but its a stunning map for those who have some experience on the Highest Yoga Tantra or it could be a great reference and introduction about it.

Very illuminating and detailed, and yet clearly presented

This extraordinary and pithy book is the perfect companion to Je Tsongkhapa's Lamrim texts, his Secret Mantra texts, and his glorious completion stage text, A Lamp To Illuminate The Five Stages. Daniel Cozort's book is like listening to the Beatles whereas Tsongkhapa's texts are like listening to Mozart.

An interesting artistic book about hatha yoga.

very clear and precise...a must read for those interested in this subject.

On 21 June 2003 I attained enlightenment after many years of practice. The moment was not presaged, but was a natural result of what I was doing at the time. This book actually provides a very direct description of much of what happened to me, including syllables related to different stages of the breath that were entoned by me, and done in a spontaneous fashion. This book is the first that I have encountered that is an accurate description of my practice, and of the moments that led to the Momentous Moment. I found a nearly one-for-one correspondence between what happened to me, and what is written in this translation. The exceptions to this are the deity yoga prepatory stages described in the book. I have extensive experience studying Buddhist texts, especially vajrayana and esoteric Buddhism, and though it may be anathema to say it, I think the prepatory steps, as formally described in the book, do not need to be done exactly as described. I am guessing that they were designed by monastic communities to accomplish two things: a) instill in the practitioner's mind concentration and insight - which can be developed in many, many, many different ways (and which are the critical factor), and not just through spectacular visualization abilities; and probably more importantly, b) to ensure that only the truly serious would have the latter parts of the technique revealed to them since development of the visualization abilities is indeed daunting.

As other reviewers have noted, this is a fine overview of the topic. I only wish to add, because it may be of interest to some readers and is not discernable from the promotional material, that Cozart discusses the matter entirely from the Geluk perspective. Readers interested in Sakya and Kagyu perspectives will have to look elsewhere.

fell asleep every time I started to read this book but had the most amazing dreams, decided it must work on an inner level and not an outer one... great for insomniacs

This is a great book and I found it very helpful. I read it prior to reading Tsongkhapa's Six Yoga's of Marlow as that (to me) is quite a complicated read! Daniel has done a great job of explaining what can often seem inexplicable. Like many of these texts I found it a little 'wordy' and repetitive but it's written in plain, easy to understand English, and it will definitely be helpful to you in navigating this path.