Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Essential Practice: Lectures on Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School

Khenchen Thrangu

3/5 ( ratings)

Essential Practice is an accessible and authoritative portrait of a bodhisattva's view, meditation, and conduct by one of the foremost masters of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the tutor of H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa. Teaching on Kamalashila's treatises outlining the stages of meditation, Thrangu Rinpoche explains the need for compassion and the way to develop it, the necessity for a bodhisattva's vast and durable altruism, as well as the means to generate, stabilize, and fortify it and the elements key to the meditative practices of calm abiding and insight. An engaging element of Essential Practice is the lively interaction of Thrangu Rinpoche with students and members of the faculty of Naropa University as he unfolds the text for them.

With exceptional generosity, Thrangu Rinpoche took delight in fielding basic and knotty questions that were put to him by relative newcomers and relatively seasoned practitioner/scholars. This record of a masterful teacher's instructions will help students old and new to determine what is essential to the practice of Buddhism and thereby bring the Buddha's teachings into their own experience. Essential Practice presents an incomparable wisdom on the methodology and means of meditation, as well as the ways in which to bring oneself to the transcendence of selfless behavior.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Snow Lion

Release: September 26, 2002

ISBN: 1559391812

ISBN 13: 9781559391818

Essential Practice: Lectures on Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School

Khenchen Thrangu

3/5 ( ratings)

Essential Practice is an accessible and authoritative portrait of a bodhisattva's view, meditation, and conduct by one of the foremost masters of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the tutor of H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa. Teaching on Kamalashila's treatises outlining the stages of meditation, Thrangu Rinpoche explains the need for compassion and the way to develop it, the necessity for a bodhisattva's vast and durable altruism, as well as the means to generate, stabilize, and fortify it and the elements key to the meditative practices of calm abiding and insight. An engaging element of Essential Practice is the lively interaction of Thrangu Rinpoche with students and members of the faculty of Naropa University as he unfolds the text for them.

With exceptional generosity, Thrangu Rinpoche took delight in fielding basic and knotty questions that were put to him by relative newcomers and relatively seasoned practitioner/scholars. This record of a masterful teacher's instructions will help students old and new to determine what is essential to the practice of Buddhism and thereby bring the Buddha's teachings into their own experience. Essential Practice presents an incomparable wisdom on the methodology and means of meditation, as well as the ways in which to bring oneself to the transcendence of selfless behavior.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Snow Lion

Release: September 26, 2002

ISBN: 1559391812

ISBN 13: 9781559391818

More books from Khenchen Thrangu

Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Medicine Buddha Teachings

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Crystal Clear: Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The Five Buddha Families and the Eight Consciousnesses

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Open Door to Emptiness: A Discussion of Madhyamika Logic

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Luminous Clarity: A Commentary on Karma Chagme's Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen

4.7/5 ( ratings)

The Middle-Way Meditation Instructions of Mipham Rinpoche

4.3/5 ( ratings)

On Buddha Essence: A Commentary on Ranjung Dorje's Treatise

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Three Vehicles of Buddhist Practice

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Refuge Vow

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Buddha Nature

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to Practice

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Advice from a Yogi: An Explanation of a Tibetan Classic on What Is Most Important

The Heart of Dharma: Mind Training for Beginners

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Four Foundations of Buddhist Practice

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A spiritual biography of Rechungpa: Based on the Radiance of Wisdom, the Life and Liberation of the Ven. Rechung Dorje Drak

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?