THE DHARMA is the first major collection of teachings by Kalu Rinpoche, a great meditation master in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. These discourses were presented in America with a Western audience in mind, and have been specially edited for this volume. The openness, simplicity, and depth of realization in his teachings have brought inspiration to many, and greater understanding of the wisdom Buddhism has to offer. The topics covered range from the most subtle psychology and metaphysics to everyday life and practice. Readers new to Buddhism will find lucid and profound explanations of the fundamental teachings; those already familiar with Buddhism will discover unexpected insights into the heart of the tradition.

Born in Eastern Tibet, Kalu Rinpoche was trained in monasteries and retreat centers. He spent many years of solitary retreat in remote mountains. Thereafter he was summoned back to the monastery to teach and guide practice. A few years before the Chinese occupation of Tibet, he left the country and eventually settled in India. Since then, he has travelled extensively, teaching and establishing centers in Asia, Europe, and North America where his tradition of meditative practice is maintained.

The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon, Kalu Rinpoche, SUNY Press, Paperback, 236 pages, 1986, $36.25

The late Kalu Rinpoche was born in 1905 in Eastern Tibet. At fifteen, he gave his first public teaching and soon afterward entered the traditional three-year, three-month retreat. From the age of eighteen, Rinpoche studied with several eminent teachers in Tibet and then began a period of mountain retreat.

Rinpooche spent many years teaching and directing retreats in Tibet. By 1955, he had revitalized the Shangpa Kagyu lineage and was a senior lama at the Karma Kagyu lineage when the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa sent him to India and Bhutan to prepare for the anticipated exodus of refugees from Chinese occupied Tibet.

In 1971, H.E. Kalu Rinpoche was sent on a teaching journey to the West by His Holiness Karmapa. During his many subsequent visits, he founded numerous dharma and retreat centers

CONTENTS: The Dharma
Preface	ix
Introduction: Kalu Rinpoche	1
Chapter 1: Kalu Rinpoche on Teaching in North America	7
Chapter 2: The Four Noble Truths	13
Chapter 3: The Four Dharmas of Gampopa	43
Chapter 4: Bardo	55
Chapter 5: Mandala	65
Chapter 6: Vows	73
Chapter 7: Women, Siddhi, Dharma	91
Chapter 8: Mahamudra	109
Epilogue: The Eight Thoughts	137
Appendix I: The Five Skandhas, by Lama Norlha	139
Appendix II: Glossary of Technical Terms	185
Index	215