Je Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) is revered as one of the most significant Tibetan Buddhist teachers whose eclectic and analytic studies and meditations in all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism resulted in the founding of the Gelukpa system of the Tibetan Buddhist heritage.
The Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa brings together for the first time a number of extremely important and useful works by and on Tsong Khapa touching transcendental aspects of Sutra, Tantra and Insight Meditation, including mystic conversations with great Bodhisattvas and deeply spiritual songs in praises of Manjushri and Maitreya etc. The anthology concludes with a number of intensely moving songs in praise of Tsong Khapa and his immeasurable contribution to Tibetan Buddhism by such realised and remarkable Tibetan Buddhist personalities like the Seventh Dalai Lama, Eight Karmapa, Dulnagpa Palden and Khyadrub je etc.
Ably translated by a number of Western Buddhist translatore in association with Tibetan Buddhist scholars, The Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa edited by Professor Robert Thurman, fulfils a long standing need of the contemporary Dharma community of both the East and the West.

Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa, R. Thurman, LTWA, 2001 ed., 258 pages, $16.50

Robert A. F. Thurman is Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York City, where he has taught since 1988. He holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America. He received Upasika ordination in 1964 and Vajracharya ordination in 1971, both from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Among the foremost Buddhologists and interpreters of Tibet and its Buddhist civilization; he is also an ordained Buddhist layman. He is a cofounder of Tibet House in New York City, a cultural nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the endangered civilization of Tibet. Robert Thurman is the author of Essential Tibetan Buddhism (1996); Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness (1998), Circling the Sacred Mountain (1999), Why the Dalai Lama Matters (2008), and many other original books and translations of sacred Tibetan texts.

	Contents: LIFE & TEACHINGS OF TSONG KHAPA
	Editor's Note	1
I.	Life, Liberation, and Accomplishments	3
	a. A Short Biography	4
	b. Destiny Fulfilled	40
	c. Song of the Mystic Experience by Lama Tashi Palden	47
II.	Stages of the Path to Enlightenment	56
	a. Three Principles of the Path	57
	b. Lines of Experience	59
	c. A Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra	67
	d. The Prayer of the Virtuous Beginning, Middle & End	90
III.	Middle Way Critical Philosophy - Insight Meditation	96
	a. Praise for Relativity	99
	b. The Middle Length Transcendent Insight	108
IV.	Praises of and Conversations with Great Bodhisattvas	135
	a. Cloud-Ocean of Praises of Manjushri	188
	b. Brahma's Diadem - Praise of Maitreya	198
	c. Sukhavati Prayer	207
	d. Supremely Healing Nectar Garland	213
V.	Praises of Tsong Khapa by Other Masters	231
	a. Tricosmic Master by Khaydrup Je	232
	b. Rapidly Invoking Blessings by the Seventh Dalai Lama	238
	c. Incomparable Tsong Khapa by the Eighth Karmapa	243
	d. Lord of Tushita's Hundred Gods by Dulnagpa Palden	246
VI.	Notes	248