Lama Thubten Yeshe was born in Tibet in 1935. At the age of six, he entered the great Sera Monastic University, Lhasa, where he studied until 1959, when the Chinese invasion of Tibet forced him into exile in India. Lama Yeshe continued to study and meditate in India until 1967, when, with his chief disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, he went to Nepal. Two years later he established Kopan Monastery, near Kathmandu, in order to teach Buddhism to Westerners.
In 1974, the Lamas began making annual teaching tours to the West, and as a result of these travels a worldwide network of Buddhist teaching and meditation centers-the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)-began to develop.
"Meditation is not on the level of the object but on that of the subject - you are the business of your meditation.
"Bodhicitta is very practical, I tell you. It's like medicine. The self-cherishing thought is like a nail or a sword in your heart; it always feels uncomfortable. With bodhicitta, from the moment you begin to open, you feel incredibly peaceful and you get tremendous pleasure and inexhaustible energy. Forget about enlightenment - as soon as you begin to open yourself to others, you gain tremendous pleasure and satisfaction. Working for others is very interesting; it's an infinite activity. Your life becomes continuously rich and interesting.
"Historically, Shakyamuni Buddha taught the four noble truths. To whose culture do the four noble truths belong? The essence of religion has nothing to do with any one particular country's culture. Compassion, love, reality - to whose culture do they belong? The people of any country, any nation, can implement the three principal aspects of the path, the four noble truths or the eightfold path. There's no contradiction at all."
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By mkDragon
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Tibetan Buddhism is hard to understand even if you have a teacher who can explain in simple terms. This books helps quite a bit in that regard. It at least gets you started, and then you can go other places you want to go to find out more. I would recommend it as a good place to start in a very complex and difficult part of Buddhism. The Dalai Lama is also a really good person to listen to get started in Buddhism in general and Tibetan Buddhism in particular. This book is a good way to get started in a difficult field.
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By Anna
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99 cents worth of sense for Western mind trying to understand why Buddhists who renounce desire smile and laugh and seem to enjoy life so darn much.
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well written and short book for enthusiasts of tibetan tantra. very reader friendly by one of the worlds experts on this subject.
