Profound Buddhism teaches how to deal with emotions from a Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana point of view. This volume also includes teachings on the nature of the mind, the relationship between body and mind, emptiness, compassion, the situation of the individual in the cycle of existence and karma.
Profound Buddhism: From Hinayana to Mahayana, Kalu Rinpoche, Clear Point Press, 205 pages, $15.95
The late Kalu Rinpoche was born in 1905 in Eastern Tibet. At fifteen, he gave his first public teaching and soon afterward entered the traditional three-year, three-month retreat. From the age of eighteen, Rinpoche studied with several eminent teachers in Tibet and then began a period of mountain retreat.
Rinpooche spent many years teaching and directing retreats in Tibet. By 1955, he had revitalized the Shangpa Kagyu lineage and was a senior lama at the Karma Kagyu lineage when the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa sent him to India and Bhutan to prepare for the anticipated exodus of refugees from Chinese occupied Tibet.
In 1971, H.E. Kalu Rinpoche was sent on a teacing journey to the West by His Holiness Karmapa. During his many subsequent visits, he founded numerous dharma and retreat cetners
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