Author: Robert A F Thurman
Editor(s): Robert A F Thurman
Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 258
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185102163
Description
This book brings together for the first time a number of extremely important and useful works by and on Tsong Khapa touching transcendental aspects of Sutra, Tantra and Insight Meditation, including mystic conversations with great Bodhisattvas and deeply spiritual songs in praises of Manjushri and Maitreya etc.
Je Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) is revered as one of the most significant Tibetan Buddhist teacher whose eclectic and analytic studies and meditations in all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism resulted in the founding of the Gelugpa system of the Tibetan Buddhist heritage.
The anthology concludes with a number of intensely moving songs in praise of Tsong Khapa and his immeasurable contribution to Tibetan Buddhism by such realized and remarkable Tibetan Buddhist personalities like the Seventh Dalai Lama, Eighth Karmapa, Dulnagpa Palden and Khaydrub je etc.
Ably translated by a number of Western Buddhist translators in association with Tibetan Buddhist scholars, The Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa edited by Professor Robert Thurman, fulfils a long standing need of the contemporary Dharma community of both the East and the West.
Contents
Editor’s Note
LIFE, LIBERATION, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A Short Biography
Destiny Fulfilled
Song of the Mystic Experience by Lama Tashi Palden
STAGES OF THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT
Three Principles of the Path
Lines of Experience
A Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra
The Prayer of the Virtuous Beginning, Middle & End
MIDDLE WAY CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY - INSIGHT MEDITATION
Praises of Relativity
The Middle Length Transcendent Insight
PRAISES OF AND CONVERSATIONS WITH GREAT BODHISATTVAS
Cloud-Ocean of Praises of Manjushri
Brahma’s Diadem-Praise of Maitreya
Sukhavati Prayer
Supremely Healing Nectar Garland
PRAISES OF TSONG KHAPA BY OTHER MASTERS
Tricosmic Master by Khaydrub Je
Rapidly Invoking Blessings by the Seventh Dalai Lama
Incomparable Tsong Khapa by the Eighth Karmapa
Lord of Tushita’s Hundred Gods by Dulnagpa Palden
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