Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire
The Transformation of Desire
$44.40
- Paperback
161 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2014
Summary
New edition of this perennial classic.
“The best introductory work on Tibetan Buddhist tantra available today.” – Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
What is tantra? Who is qualified to practice it? How should it be practiced? What are the results?
According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve profound and lasting happiness. And according to the tantric teachings of Buddhism, this remarkable transformation can be realized very quickly if we utilize…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781614291558 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1614291551 |
| Author: | Thubten Yeshe |
| Publisher: | Wisdom Publications (MA) |
| Imprint: | Wisdom Publications,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 161 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 153mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“The best introductory work on Tibetan Buddhist tantra available today.”
“Introduction to Tantra, with its foreword by Philip Glass, deserves to be widely distributed–it will be very helpful to lots of people.”–Prof. Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University
Thubten Yeshe
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935-1984) was born in Tibet and educated at the great Sera Monastic University. He fled the Chinese oppression in 1959 and in the late 1960s, with his chief disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, began teaching Buddhism to Westerners at their Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1975 they founded the international Buddhist organization, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), which now has more than 160 centers, projects and services worldwide.
Jonathan Landaw was born in New Jersey and has traveled the world since 1970. He spent six years living in northern India studying Tibetan Buddhism and is the editor and author of a number of Buddhist books, including Wisdom Energy and Buddhism for Dummies. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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