Lama Surya Das - Awakening the Buddha Within : Eight Steps to Enlightenment
MOBI | 414 pages | ISBN-10: 0767901576 | 867.52 KB
Genre: Philosophy & Belief

Description:
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.

Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a definitive and nonsectarian guide to the wisdom found in ancient Tibetan teachings and a tried-and-true path of spiritual transformation.

Contents: Discovering Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World. - Walking the Eight-Fold Path to Enlightenment. - The Four Noble Truths. - Right View. - Right Intentions. - Right Speech. - Right Action. - Right Livelihood. - Right Effort. - Right Mindfulness. - Right Concentration. - Meditation Training.

Biography

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him "the Western Lama."

Surya has spent nearly forty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia. He is an authorized lama (priest and spiritual master teacher) in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its affiliated branches. He is the founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network annual conferences with the Dalai Lama.