SEM The Nature of Mind - Softcover

Gelek Rimpoche

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934994006 ISBN 13: 9781934994009

Publisher: Jewel Heart cCorp, 2008

Synopsis

SEM, The Nature of Mind, is compiled from teachings delivered by Gelek Rimpoche on the nature of the mind. This lightly edited transcript addresses teh relationship between energy and mind, the mind's capacity for liberation and wisdom, and continuity of consciousness.

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Biography of Gelek Rimpoche The education of a small child from complex dialectical analyses to building a fire of sticks and stones was tended to by some of the greatest thinkers and practitioners of spiritual philosophy ever to live. Who is this man and why is he so important? Born in 1939 in Lhasa, Tibet, Gelek Rimpoche always dreamed big and of far away places. Confined as a child to a monk¹s cell in a country with no electricity or running water, and little news of the outside world, he scoured the pictures of shredded copies of Life magazine for anything he could gather about America. Amid the strafing bullets of Chinese airplanes, he led a small group of survivors through the Himalaya to India and life as a refugee. And it was during this time that his rare ability to connect outside this insular world of monks and meditation, of living as though the 17th century held the latest in technological developments, surfaced. And it was during this time that he saved the Gelugpa tradition by having memorized and published all the crucial texts, helped form the organizations that would let the outside world know about the great wisdom of Tibet, and began his transformation from Tibetan monk to American Tibetan living embodiment of a becalmed mind and loving heart. Rimpoche¹s collected works now include over 32 transcripts of his talks and teachings (Jewel Heart), numerous articles, the national best seller, Good Life, Good Death (2001 Riverhead) and The Tara Box: Rituals for Protection and Healing from the Female Buddha (2004 New World Library). He was director of Tibet House in Delhi, India, was a radio host at All India Radio, helped compile one of the first Tibetan English dictionaries, was one of the first Tibetans to be sent to Cornell University to study economics, conducted over 1000 interviews in compiling an oral history of the fall of Tibet to the communist Chinese, held posts at both Case Western Reserve and The University of Michigan. He founded Jewel Heart in 1987. Based in Ann Arbor, it has chapters in Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Nebraska, the Netherlands, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jewel Heart cCorp
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934994006
• ISBN 13: 9781934994009
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Amy Hertz