This book offers Akong Rinpoche's timeless wisdom to help us face the challenge of living happy and useful lives in an increasingly bewildering world. We cannot change the world to conform to our wishes. What we can do is to have mastery over how we experience it: we can learn to accept and adapt to ever-changing circumstance maturing our minds in the process. With balancing we learn to access our inner potential through the process of living.

Restoring the Balance, Sharing Tibetan Wisdom, Akong Tulku Rinpoche, Paperback, Dzalendara Publications, 2005, 144 Pages, $16.95

Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche is an accomplished meditation master of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhsim. His wisdom, visionand selfless dedication have established Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, inspired the Holy Island Project and started many Samye Dzong and Rokpa centres worldwide. Understanding the challenges of modern times and assisted by practitioners of therapy and medicine, Rinpoche has also developed Tara Rokpa Therapy, now actively practised worldwide. Akong Rinpoche's compassionate activity, focussed through Rokpa International, brings education, healthcare, cultural support and income-generating skills to some of the poorest communities in Asia and Africa.