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The word Buddha means ‘awakened one’ or ‘the enlightened one’. This title refers to one who perceives directly the illusory, limited, and conflicted nature of reality common to humanity, and the false identity formed on this misguided foundation. With this awakening, everything changes; without it, nothing changes. Awakening therefore is and has been humanity’s greatest challenge.
Without compassion, Always Awakening explores how ...
Venerable Professor Samdhong Rinpoche was born in Eastern Tibet and arrived in India with His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He is a distinguished Tibetan scholar, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in exile and the former Director of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Varanasi.
This book consists of a series of talks given to a group of international students at The School of the Wisdom at the ...
This book, stemming from the author's own deep experiences of meditation, strikes a chord with the reader and enables him to touch an unexplored realm within.The sheer simplicity and unimposing nature of Buddhist meditation can be truly experienced with the words and expressions of this much admired scholar. From the concepts of Samathaand Vipassana to the Noble Eightfold Path; from the objects and methods of concentration to the totality of perception-it ...
The Jnanodaya Tantra which is of the Yoga genre of the Buddhist Tantra as of the three other classes, the Kriya, the Carya and the Anuttara Tantras, is being published here as a part of the first volume of the Rare Buddhist Minor Text Series, appearing in the Dhi review. The text enumerates under wheels of the mind, speech and body the ten grounds (Bhumis) and the twenty four establishements (Pithas) to be reflected upon. These postulates precede the ...