Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot Paperback by Kensur Lekden

Product Details

• Publisher: Snow Lion (2001-03-13)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 176 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781559391580
• Item Weight: 185.98 grams
• Dimensions: 21.54 x 14.0 x 1.09 cm

With the intimate freshness of a personal teaching, this book presents the main practices 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 understanding the profound view of emptiness.

About the Author

Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD, served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.