Volume 14, Issue 1, 2023
Dawn H. Collins
Pages 96-113
https://doi.org/10.5840/asrr20231110104
Becoming the Gods: Visualisation and Healing in Tibetan Deity Yoga
This article explores aspects of visualisation and healing practices found within Tibetan Tantric traditions of deity yoga, with particular focus on the deities Avalokite?vara, Par?a?avar¨© and T¨¡r¨¡. The article looks at some innovations and continuities between contemporary developments of these practices and their more ancient counterparts, through the lens of their use for healing. It explores the relationship of Tantric visualisation practices to waking life, dreamtime, and death processes, identifying some ways in which they were employed in response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.