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The Practice of Tranquillity & Insight: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation - Softcover

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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9781559391061: The Practice of Tranquillity & Insight: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1559391065 ISBN 13: 9781559391061
Publisher: Snow Lion, 1998

Synopsis

The two types of meditation that form the core of Buddhist spiritual practice are: tranquillity (samatha) meditation aims at stilling the mind, while insight (vipasyana) meditation produces clear vision or insight into the nature of all phenomena. With masterful scholarship, Rinpoche explains this unified system of meditation—what to do, what to avoid, and the stages of deepening meditation—so the practitioner can gauge progress. His teaching is a commentary on the eighth chapter of the Treasury of Knowledge by Jamgon Kongtrul.

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About the Author

Khenchen Thrangu was born in Tibet in 1933. He has founded numerous monasteries and nunneries, schools for Tibetan children, and medical clinics. He has taught extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, and is the abbot of Gampo Abbey. He was appointed by the Dalai Lama to be the personal tutor for the Seventeenth Karmapa.

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The two types of meditation that form the core of Buddhist spiritual practice are: tranquillity (samatha) meditation, which aims at stilling the mind, and insight (vipasyana) meditation, which produces "clear vision," or insight into the nature of all phenomena. With masterful scholarship, Rinpoche explains this unified system of meditation--what to do, what to avoid and the stages of deepening meditation so the practitioner can gauge progress. His teaching is a commentary on the eighth chapter of the Treasury of Knowledge by Jamgon Kongtrul.

"With masterful scholarship and the ability to make subtle ideas easy to understand and apply in practice, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche explains this unified system of meditation for students both beginning and advanced."--The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is one of the most respected scholars of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is recognized for not only having a tremendous scholarly background, but also for having great meditative insight into the Buddhist teachings and the ability to make these teachings accessible to Western students.

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Publisher
Snow Lion
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1559391065
ISBN 13 
9781559391061
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
184
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