From the author of many pioneering works on Tibetan Buddhism, a guide to fully incorporating Buddhism into all aspects of one's life and self

Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX skillfully illustrates how to incorporate the whole human experience onto the Buddhist path. With mastery of Western concepts, the author explains how to integrate traditional Buddhist philosophies, psychology, and Tibetan medicine in the service of reducing suffering and developing all aspects of one's personhood to overcome the confinement of a limited sense of self.

Integral Buddhism:

Developing All Aspects of One's Personhood

, Traleg Rinpoche, Shogam Publications, Paperback, 180 pp, $21.95

Traleg Kyabgon (1955–2012) was the founder of the Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute, which is headquartered in Melbourne, with a major practice center in upstate New York and a practice community in New York City. He taught extensively at universities and Buddhist centers in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia, and is the author of such books as Essence of Buddhism and Karma: What It Is, What It Isn't, Why It Matters.

	Contents: Integral Buddhism
	Foreward by Dzigar Kongrtol Rinpoche	x
	Biography of Author	xi
	Acknowledgements	xiv
	Editor's Introduction	xv
	Editor's Biography	xvii
	SECTION 1: INTEGRAL BUDDHISM
1	Towards an Integral Buddhist View	1
2	An Integral Approach to Meditation	6
.	Unlocking Our Resources	7
	Using the Breath in Meditation	8
	Mindfulness	11
	Overcoming Obstacles In Meditation	14
	Esoteric Meditation	19
	Integral Meditation	20
3.	Integral Buddhism, Ignorance, and Suffering	21
	Self and Personhood	25
	Four noble truths, Ethics, and the Integral 2Approach	28
	Ethics	31
4	The Integral Approach to Overcoming Sufferins	33
	Missunderstanding and Excessive Mental Reflection	35
	Pursuing an Integral Approach	38
	Renunciation	42
	Mindfullness, Awareness and Thinking Clearly	42
5	Working with Suffering and becoming Stronger	45
	Three kinds of suffering	46
	Craving and Desire	47
	Desire, freedom and renunciation	48
	Self identity	51
	Merit and wisdom	52
	Ego and Personality	53
	Transformation	54
	Courage, Strength, Fortitude, Resilience	56
6	Noble Eightfold Path	58
7	Foundation of Wisdom	63
	Craving, Beauty and Dharmas	64
	Interrelationship and Is-ness	67
	Fixation and Misunderstanding	68
	Mindfulness and Interdependent Origination	69
	Wisdom	73
	SECTION 2. PHILOSOPHY
8	Why Integrate Philosophy?	74
	Values	76
9	Abidharma (Pali:Abhidhamma)	78
	Hinayana	83
	Hinayayana and Mahayana	83
10	Yogacara	87
11	Madhyamaka	93
	Fixation	97
12	Madhyamaka, Emptiness, and Compassion	98
	Interdependent, Arising and Compassion	100
	Middle View	102
	Bodhicitta and Becoming a Bodhisattva	104
13	Mahayana, Bodhicitta and Six Paramitas	110
	Six Paramitas	111
	The Integral Approach to Philosophy	115
	SECTION 3: PSYCHOLOGY
14	Psychology: Spirituality and the Mind	119
	Understanding Our Mind	120
-	Meditation	122
	Acceptance	124
	Attraction and Aversion	126
	Misundertanding	126
	Letting Go and Sense of Self	130
	Spiritualitity and Sense of Self	132
	Contextualizinf of the self	133
	Integral Psychology	136
	SECTION 4: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
15	Prana and Pranayana	138
	Prana	142
	Prana, Nadi and Chakras	147
	Five Primary Pranas	149
	Five Secondary Pranas	151
16	Tibetan Medicine	155
	Bile (Tib. Tripa)	156
	Phlegm (Tib. Peken)	157
	Couses of Malfuntion and Recommended Actions	159
	Integral Approach to Health	163
17	Conclusion	165
	Notes	167
	Index	177