Principles of Buddhist Tantra : A Commentary on Ch??je Ngawang Palden's Illumination of the Tantric Tradition : the Principles of the Grounds and Paths of the Four Great Secret Classes of Tantra - Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche

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Principles of Buddhist Tantra

A Commentary on Ch??je Ngawang Palden's Illumination of the Tantric Tradition : the Principles of the Grounds and Paths of the Four Great Secret Classes of Tantra

By: Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche, Ian Coghlan (Editor), Voula Zarpani (Editor)

eBook | 1 May 2011

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Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche was a renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism with students worldwide. Revered as a teacher by even the Dalai Lama, he was known especially as a master of Buddhist tantra, the powerful esoteric methods for attaining enlightenment swiftly. The teachings in this book are a singular record of his deep learning in that field. Originally delivered in California to a group of Western students, the teachings comment on a classic introduction to tantra by the nineteenth-century Mongolian lama Choje Ngawang Palden. The work, Illumination of the Tantric Tradition, is a staple even today of the curriculum for training young monastics.

Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche explains the distinctive features of the four classes of tantra--action tantra, performance tantra, yoga tantra, and highest yoga tantra--by describing the way to progress through their paths and levels. He illuminates key issues in tantric practice that are still a matter for debate within the tradition. Finally, he gives a special treatment of the unique methods of Kalacakra tantra, which is regularly taught around the globe by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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"Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche was like the Kadam masters of the past in his profound renunciation. He showed not the slightest worldly activity, not a single one of the eight mundane concerns, and he had no self-cherishing thought. Everything he did, even talking, was utterly pleasing to the minds of sentient beings."
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