Illuminations: A Guide to Essential Buddhist Practices

✍ Scribed by Sakya Pandita

Publisher: Lotsawa
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 192
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Translated by Geshe Wangyal and Brian Cutillo

Illuminations is a translation of: Thub pa'i dgongs pa rab tu gsal ba of Sa-skya Pandi-ta Kun-dga' rgyal-mtshan, 1182-1251. It is a useful, down-to-earth guide for beginning the process of mental and spiritual development as taught and enacted by the historical Buddha Sakyamuni and succeeding masters of India, Tibet, and the world. Neither abstruse nor mystical, it is directed toward those who wish to lay the necessary groundwork for advanced practice.

Sakya Pandita cast the present work in the form of a "stages of the, path" (lam rim) teaching. Such teachings are a reformulation of Sakyamuni's words into a complete and integrated system of practice. Sakya Pandita's presentation is comprehensive, yet it retains the informal flavor of a transcription of lectures for an introduction to basic Buddhism.

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