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Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times
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Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times

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To Tibetan Buddhists, Guru Rinpoche is a Buddha. This book recounts Guru Rinpoche’s historic visit to Tibet and explains his continuing significance to Buddhists. In doing so, it illustrates how a country whose powerful armies overran the capital of China and installed a puppet emperor came to abandon its aggressive military campaigns- this transformation was due to Guru Rinpoche, who tamed and converted Tibet to Buddhism and thereby changed the course of Asian history.

Four very different Tibetan accounts of his story are presented- one by Jamgon Kongtrul; one according to the pre-Buddhist Tibetan religion Boen, by Jamyang Kyentse Wongpo; one based on Indian and early Tibetan historical documents, by Taranata; and one by Dorje Tso. In addition, there are supplications by Guru Rinpoche and visualizations to accompany them by Jamgon Kongtrul.

Guru Rinpoche is part of The Tsadra Foundation series published by Snow Lion Publications. The Tsadra Foundation takes its inspiration from the nineteenth-century nonsectarian Tibetan scholar and meditation master Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, and is named after his hermitage in eastern Tibet, Tsadra Rinchen Drak. The F

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc
Country
United States
Date
16 September 2002
Pages
360
ISBN
9781559391740

To Tibetan Buddhists, Guru Rinpoche is a Buddha. This book recounts Guru Rinpoche’s historic visit to Tibet and explains his continuing significance to Buddhists. In doing so, it illustrates how a country whose powerful armies overran the capital of China and installed a puppet emperor came to abandon its aggressive military campaigns- this transformation was due to Guru Rinpoche, who tamed and converted Tibet to Buddhism and thereby changed the course of Asian history.

Four very different Tibetan accounts of his story are presented- one by Jamgon Kongtrul; one according to the pre-Buddhist Tibetan religion Boen, by Jamyang Kyentse Wongpo; one based on Indian and early Tibetan historical documents, by Taranata; and one by Dorje Tso. In addition, there are supplications by Guru Rinpoche and visualizations to accompany them by Jamgon Kongtrul.

Guru Rinpoche is part of The Tsadra Foundation series published by Snow Lion Publications. The Tsadra Foundation takes its inspiration from the nineteenth-century nonsectarian Tibetan scholar and meditation master Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, and is named after his hermitage in eastern Tibet, Tsadra Rinchen Drak. The F

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc
Country
United States
Date
16 September 2002
Pages
360
ISBN
9781559391740