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Tantra: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought Volume 6
Author(s): Geshe Tashi Tsering (Author)
- Publisher: Wisdom Publications,U.S.
- Publication Date: 10 July 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1614290113
- ISBN-13: 9781614290117
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
In this sixth and final volume in the “Foundation of Buddhist Thought” series, Geshe Tashi Tsering brings his familiar, helpful approach to the esoteric practices of Buddhist tantra. Anticipating the many questions Westerners have upon first encountering tantra’s colorful imagery and veiled language, “Tantra” uses straight talk to explain deities, initiations, mandalas, and the body’s subtle physiology of channels and chakras.
Tantric Buddhism provides a quick avenue to buddhahood by means of dissolving the body’s wind energies into the central channel at the heart, mimicking the transformations of consciousness that occur at the time of death. Guiding readers systematically from tantra’s generation stage through to the full enlightenment of the completion stage, Geshe Tashi Tsering even unpacks a simple compassion practice composed by the Dalai Lama, using it to illustrate the building blocks common to all such visualization techniques.
“Tantra” is a fitting conclusion to this accessible and practical series.
“Geshe Tashi’s systematic approach to Buddhist thought allows readers to gradually but surely enhance their knowledge of Buddhism without feeling overwhelmed.”–“Eastern Horizon”
“Geshe Tashi’s insights can be enjoyed by a wide audience of both specialists and newcomers to the Buddhist tradition.”–Thupten Jinpa, prinicipal translator for the Dalai Lama and director of the Institute of Tibetan Classics
Geshe Tashi Tsering was born in Tibet in 1958 and trained at Sera Monastery in India. Since 1994, he has been the guiding teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London, and he also teaches at other Buddhist centers worldwide.
About the Author
Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche is the Spiritual Director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a worldwide network of Buddhist centers, monasteries, and affiliated projects, including Wisdom Publications. Rinpoche was born in 1946 in the village of Thami in the Solo Khumbu region of Nepal near Mount Everest. His books include
Transforming Problems into Happiness, How to Be Happy, and Ultimate Healing. He lives in Aptos, California.Gordon McDougall was director of Cham Tse Ling, the FPMT’s Hong Kong center, for two years in the 1980s and worked for Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London from 2000 to 2007. He helped develop the Foundation of Buddhist Thought study program and administered it for seven years. Since 2008 he has been editing Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s
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