Book Reading And Discussion - Heart Advice from a Mahamudra Master
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The book: Heart Advice from a Mahamudra Master by Gendun Rinpoche
Reading book and discussion:
This is the life and teachings of one of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters of our time.
Advice from his heart on basic aspects of spiritual development and liberation.
This book is by a Tibetan lama who spent three decades in meditation retreat in Tibet and India and then 22 years teaching Buddhism in Europe. It contains teachings that he considered vital for treading the Buddhist path to liberation, especially for westerners, and that he gave again and again to his Western students. His advice on Buddhist practice is simple and yet profound; it extends from the basics all the way up to the highest teaching of Mahamudra. His words are imbued with an authority and authenticity that comes from having tested these teachings and practices in the fire of his own extraordinary meditative experience. There is no dogma or display of rote learning in this book - everything offered here is heartfelt advice coming from personal experience and constitutes essential fare for the practitioner.
**About Lama Gendun Rinpoche:**Gendun Rinpoche (1918–1997) belonged to that extraordinary group of great Tibetan Buddhist meditators trained entirely in Tibet who were driven into exile by the Chinese occupation of their homeland and who later in their lives spread the Buddhist teachings in the West.
Gendun Rinpoche was an exceptional being, the very epitome of the perfect monk, yogi and meditation master. He was one of the old generation of great accomplished beings, the 'mahasiddhas' of Tibet. He possessed the ability to render his teaching comprehensible to all classes of beings.
Gendun Rinpoche, the embodiment of kindness, compassion and simplicity, contributed greatly to the expansion of the Dharma in Europe, where his disciples are plentiful.