Author: Lama Thinley Dorjey Bhutia
Publisher: Paljor Publications
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 283
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186230556
Description
In this book the author has recorded his own experiences as a Lama, as well as the theoretical and practical basis for the spiritual excercises Lamas undergo.
Whatever may be one's personal attitude to these mystic religious experiences, there is no doubt that varieties of such Buddhistic religious beliefs and practices constitute important elements in the cultural personality of some of our people and that of our neighbouring countries.
It is important to comprehend approaches to human life and death represented by work such as the present one, irrespective of the reader's own belief system.
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgement
Foreword
Introduction
Buddhism and its Three Yanas
Lamaism
Buddhism - What is it?
Mind and Matter
Meditation
Discovery of Padmasambhava
His Renunciation
Tibet – Prior to the Advent of Padmasambhava
The Advent of Padmasambhava to Tibet
Vajrayana
Common Preliminary Practices
Extra Ordinary Preliminary Practices
The Great Perfection
State between Death and Rebirth
My Personal Experience
Final Words
Appendices
Non-Violence
Offering Sang and Serkim
Offering Water
Offering Butter Lamp
Significance of 198
Prostration
Bibliography