Essential Practice: Lectures on Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School by Khenchen T. Rinpoche - 2002

U S A: Snow Lion Publications, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 22 cms. BRAND NEW BOOK. Accompanying Santaraksita to Tibet in the 8th century, master Kamalashila wrote the first meditation instruction for Tibetans. In treatises outlining Kamalashila's stages of meditation, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche here 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 of the meditative practices of calm abiding and insight."Thrangu Rinpoche distills the wisdom of India in an intimate, personal instruction, as true for the contemporary western practitioner as it was in 8th century Tibet. This text is a must for every serious Buddhist meditator.