This book presents with intimate detail of the oral tradition the main practics of the Mahayana Buddhist path. It details the attitudes cultivated in meditation--ranging from turning away from cyclic existence to developing love and compassion for all beings to the profound view of emptiness.Kesur Lekden was the Abbot of the Tantric Collage of Lower Lhasa prior to the Chinese invasion. Renowned among the Tibetans as a great lecurer on varied topics in this work he heighlights the incisive and direct approch of mind transformation that runs contrary to the ordinary worldly perspective.A scholar who knew the meaning of applying the great teachings as precepts for practical application Kesnsur Lekden embodied the total involvement of the mind as per Mahayana .Of particular interst is his explanation of the compatibility of exmptiness and dependent-arising showing that relization of emptiness opens the way for understanding the true nature of things both untimate and conventional. His blend of compassion and wisdom is most striking. Author : Kensur Nawang Lekden (1900-71) was abbot of the Tantric Collage of lower Lhasa prior to the invasion of Tibet by the chinese Communists. At the Time of the invasion he had already been elevated to the position of "former abbot"and after fleeing to India helped to re-establish centers of Buddhist learning and meditation in india. Events brought him to France where he tutored several monks and in 1968 he came Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America in Freewood Acres New Jersey. In February of 1970 he was invited to teach at the Tibet House in Cambridge Wisconsin founded by the late Profesor Richard Robinson and myself and I server as his translator.Kensur Rinpoch ( Precious Former Abbot) an embodiment founded by the unified practice sutra and tantra and transmitter of the ancient Tibetan Knowledge of meditation taught at Tibet House for a year and a half. in a series of fifteen lectures he set forth the paths common to sutra and tantra freely and intimately as part of the transmission of Buddhism to the west. This book is comprised of those lectures. Vast from the point of view of setting forth the compassionate deeds of Bodhisattvas and profound from the point of view of presenting the empty nature of phenomena these practices shine with the sun of Buddh s teaching reflected so brightly in snowy tibet.

Isbn No.    818510204X

Author:    Khensur Lekden

Publisher:    Library of Tibetan Works & Archives

Binding:    Paperback

Language :   English

Edition:    1

No. Of Pages :    102

Year Of Publication :   1998