In 1977, Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku presented to the world a new vision of reality, based on time, space, and knowledge as the three facets of being. Not bound to Buddhist teachings, it was a response to the unique qualities and challenges of this troubled age. This new book, collecting and integrating a wide range of materials into a coherent whole, provides a long-awaited key to engaging this revolutionary new vision and to unlocking the treasures it holds.

Essays edited with introduction and orientations by Jack Petranker

Inside Knowledge: How to Activate the Radical New Vision of Reality of Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku, Tarthang Tulku, Dharma Publishing, Paperback, 225 pp, 2015, $18.95

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche is a traditionally trained teacher and author in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and Head Lama of the Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center. Rinpoche was born in 1935 in eastern Tibet, where he studied with many of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. After leaving Tibet, Tarthang Tulku taught from 1962 to 1968 at Sanskrit University in Varanasi, India, where he also established one of the first printing presses to print sacred Tibetan texts.

The first lama of the Nyingma lineage to establish residence in the United States, Rinpoche established a mandala of organizations to actualize his long-range vision of preserving the ancient teachings of the Buddha and transmitting them to the modern world.

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche's activities are far-reaching in scope and application; the intensity and focus necessary to sustain them are difficult to describe. But mindful of the stresses of modern Western lifestyles, from time to time he expresses his thoughts in books that can be translated and widely shared.

Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	xvi
Sources	xvii
Contributors	xviii
Abbreviations	xx
Introduction: The Knowledge We Need Now	3
Part One: Discoveries
Guided by Wonder Tarthang Tulku	18
Ocean of Knowledge: A Conversation with Tarthang Tulku	31
Part Two: Adventures
Beauty beyond Measure, Power beyond Reckoning Tarthang Tulku	82
Space Field Tarthang Tulku	97
Silent Battle for the Being of Time Tarthang Tulku	110
Geographies of Knowledge Tarthang Tulku	125
Part Three: Engagements
"Well, Now, What Did You Think?" William F. Soskin	139
What Matters? A Conversation about Science Tarthang Tulku and Piet Hut	152
The Virus against Reality Meindert Gijzen	168
Between Zero and One: Exploring Time through Relationship Michael Gray	189
A Vignette Jack Petranker & Leslie Bradburn	202
Part Four: Exercises & Walkabouts
About the Exercises	209
Space between Thoughts	211
Object and its Glow	212
A Subject-Object Reversal	213
Partitions and Occupancy	215
Tracing Lineages	217
Symbolic Interplay of Action	218
Marriage of Sound and Breath	219
Protecting and Projecting	221
Commanding Time	222
Sound Within Sound	223
Choosing the Unknown	224