Enlightened Journey

Title: ENLIGHTENED JOURNEY Secondary Title: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life Description: This collection of fifteen articles and talks by Tulku Thondup constitutes a manual on how to transmute the situations encountered in daily life, whether external or internal, into spiritual disciplines and experiences. Among the topics covered are: - The fundamental principles of Buddhism. - The practice of meditation as a means of arousing compassion. - How suffering can become a more powerful tool than happiness in achieving enlightenment. - The symbolic significance of holy places, temples, statues, books, and other spiritual artifacts. - The Religious significance of Tibetan Buddhist art as a source of teaching, inspiration, and power. - Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the experiences of dying and the after-death state. - A commentary on the preliminary practices (Ngondro) of the Longchen Nyingthig tradition. Tulku Thondup Rinpoche is a teacher of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He has been a visiting scholar at Havard Universy and has written and translated several books, including Enlightened Living and Buddha Mind. Author: Tulku Thondup Rinpoche Editor: Harold Talbott Publisher: Shambhala Publications Style: Paperback Edition Print: 2001 (Buddhayana Series: V) ISBN: 9781570620218 Pages: 288