This introduction to Buddhist psychology supplies essential instructions for successful meditation practice. It sets forth the nature of mind and human potential and presents meditation practices that can powerfully influence and ultimately transform the mind into the purified mind of a buddha. He clearly describes how consciousnesses operate in everyday perception and how, at the time of Buddhahood, these same consciousnesses express the five primordial wisdoms of the five Buddha families.
Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 124 pages, $24.95

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist master known for his deep compassion and the clarity of his teachings. He was selected by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to serve as the principal tutor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Oryen Trinley Dorje. Thrangu Rinpoche is a full holder and teacher of the Kagyu Vajrayana lineages. He founded the Namo Buddha retreat center in Nepal, has established two shedras (monastic universities) in Nepal and India, and serves as Abbot of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. He also built Tara Abbey, where nuns receive a full dharma education qualifying them to become khenpos or teachers. Thrangu Rinpoche teaches entensively throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. He has centers in Maine and California, and is building the Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.

CONTENTS: Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness
Translator's Preface				7
Introduction by Thrangu Rinpoche				13
PART I -- EVERYDAY CONSCIOUSNESS				17
1	The Six Collections of Consciousness			19
		The Five Sense Consciousnesses		21
		The Mind Consciousness		25
2	The Stable Consciousnesses			31
		The Klesha-Mind		32
		The All-Base Consciousness		34
3	The Mental Events			41
4	Meditation Involving the Consciousnesses			47
PART II -- PRIMORDIAL AWARENESS				55
5	The Five Kinds of Primordial Awareness			57
		The Primordial Awareness of the Dharmadhatu		59
		The Mirrorlike Primordial Awareness		60
		The Primordial Awareness of Equality		62
		The Discriminating Primordial Awareness		63
		The Primordial Awareness that Accomplishes All Actions		64
		The Abode of the Primordial Awarenesses		65
		The Primordial Awarenesses and the Four Bodies of a Buddha		67
6	Meditation to Develop Primordial Awareness			71
7	The Five Buddha Families			75
		The Buddhas and the Four Kinds of Enlightened Activity		77
		The Meaning of the Hand-Held Symbols		79
		The Appearances of the Buddhas in the Intermediate Phase of the Bardo		81
		The Transformation of the Five Elements into the Female Buddhas		88
8	Meditation to Balance the Elements in the Body			93
Notes				97
Glossary				107
Literature				123