Essential Practice: the Stages of Meditation

Essential Practice- Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation

Essential Practice, The Kamalashila’s Stages of Meditation is an easy-to-read description of a bodhisattva's view, meditation, and conduct based on Kamalashila's treatises outlining the stages of meditation.

The Seventeenth Karmapa, the head of the Kagyu lineage has said of this book:: "The great Indian master Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School opens the door of philosophy and practice to meditators at all levels. With brevity and clarity, it covers all the main topics one needs to know from developing compassion, through numerous methods of meditation, to the ultimate realization of full awakening. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche has an unique ability to bring forth the central issues of a text and make them available to a contemporary audience. This text will certainly bring great benefit to all those who encounter it."

Khenpo Tsultim has described this book as: "Centuries ago, the Indian master Kamalashila taught Tibetans the essential points of Mahayana practice in a clear, step-by-step, and easy-to-follow way. Now, the great scholar and meditation master Thrangu Rinpoche makes these profound teachings readily accessible to Western students. I encourage all those interested in beginning or deepening their practice of the Mahayana path of wisdom and compassion which leads to the highest enlightenment for the benefit of all beings to read this book."

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