Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence - Couverture souple

Wallace, B. Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0861716906 ISBN 13 : 9780861716906

Editeur : Wisdom Publications, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Wallace B Alan

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

B. Alan Wallace is president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He trained for many years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including H. H. the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he earned his MA and PhD in religious studies at Stanford University. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion.

Brian Hodel is a freelance journalist and book editor. He has collaborated with B. Alan Wallace on many books including Stilling the Mind, Embracing Mind, Dreaming Yourself Awake, and Contemplative Science.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind. In Stilling the Mind, he uses the wisdom of Dzogchen--the highest of all the meditation traditions--to open up the shamatha practice into a space of vast freedom. Here, Wallace introduces us to Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence, one of the most cherished works of the Nyingma school from which Dzogchen stems. With his trademark enthusiasm and keen intelligence, Wallace makes obscure concepts intelligible to contemporary readers and allows us to glimpse the profound realizations of a great nineteenth-century spiritual adept.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wisdom Publications
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0861716906
• ISBN 13: 9780861716906
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Hodel Brian