Sarkar, Anil Kumar. The Mysteries of Vajrayana Buddhism: From Atisha to Dalai Lama. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1993.
Abstract
This book, on Vajrayana Buddhism of India and
Tibet from Atisha to the present Dalai Lama claims to develop Buddhism
from the early Hinayana to the final Tantra-Vajrayana process. The
Vajrayana Buddhism as initiated in Tibet by Atisha, utilizes further
the mystic-psychic disciplines of the post-Nagarjunite Madhyamika
currents from Sarhara and Tilopa of India, to Marpa and Milarespa of
Tibet, since the ninth century. It stretches its fangs to the present
century. This development, with a dual control of the psychic and
cosmic principles, accounts for the emergence of efficient
personalities or Adepts (Siddhas) of transcendental Psychology, from
the stage of Atisha's immediate pupil Dromponpa, to Gompopa of the
twelth century. Their cumulative influence is felt in parallel schools
of Lamaite movements - Tulkas, Rinponches, and Dalai Lamas, through the
centuries. They manifest a peaceful coexistence, and propagate
Universal Peace and Prosperity for mankind, closing the doors of wars
that emerge from mere empirically oriented psychology and science.