Reddit mentions of Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism

I find it interesting that Islam still places such emphasis on the actual audible sounds of the holy books, simply because it was actually a feature of many religious traditions even before Islam. Tantric Buddhism spends a lot of time discussing the power of the syllables themselves and how their recitation has a certain power that can help guide the practitioner. Lama Anagarika Govinda's Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism explores some of this and even makes the connections between Buddhism, Islam, and Gnostic Christianity on this level.