In colorful, bustling Boudhanath--Buddhism's great pilgrimage site in Nepal--a group of Westerners gathered to speak with Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche about topics both mundane and sublime. This is the record of their lively dialogue. First published in an exclusive private edition some forty years ago, Echoes has now returned to reach a larger and broader audience who will be eager to share in this intimate exchange of questions and answers with a revered teacher.
Echoes: The Boudhanath Teachings, Thinley Norbu, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 176 pages, 2016, $18.95
Thinley Norbu (1931-2011) was a master teacher of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, with many devoted students in the West as well in Asia. Revered as an emanation of the fourteenth-century master Kunkhyen Longchenpa, Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was a scholar, writer, poet, and translator, whose prolific publications include A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, his masterwork on the ngondro, or preliminary practices; The Sole Panacea, on the Seven-Line Prayer of Guru Rinpoche; and A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan, an illustrated account of personal reminiscenses.
contents
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Note to the Reader |
vii |
1. |
Same Taste |
1 |
2. |
Modes of Consciousness |
17 |
3. |
Nine
Vehicles |
31 |
4. |
Karma |
45 |
5. |
Buddhahood |
61 |
6. |
Trusting the Lama |
77 |
7. |
Refuge |
97 |
8. |
Actual Recognition |
105 |
9. |
Aspects of Buddhahook |
115 |
10. |
Tantra in Action |
129 |
11. |
Ethics without Concepts |
145 |
12. |
Games |
153 |
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