Buddhist Practice as Daily Life
-This collection of fifteen articles and talks by Tulku Thondup-never before published in book form- 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 experience of dying and the after-death state.
A commentary on the preliminary practices ( Ngondro ) of the Longchen Nyingthig tradition.
Enlightened Journey, Buddhist Practice as Daily Life, Tulku Thondup, Shambhala Publications, paperback, $16.00
Tulku Thondup author and teacher, was born in East Tibet and studied at the famed Dodrupchen Monastery. In 1958 he settled in India, where he taught at Indian universties for many years. He came to the United States in 1980 as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. For the past two decades he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, engaging in translation and writing on Tibetan Budhism, particularly the Nyingma teachings, under the auspices of the Buddhayana Foundation. Among his books are The Healing Power of Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages, and Boundless Healing, in twelve languages.
