Complete instructions on how to practice the generation stage of Guhyasamaja from a contemporary Tibetan Buddhist master, with a new English translation of the self-generation ritual.
GYUM KHENSUR LOBSANG JAMPA was born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1937. He entered the Mey College of Sera Monastery at the age of ten. Khensur Rinpoche studied in Tibet until 1959 when he fled to India after the Chinese occupation of Tibet. After completing the final Geshe exam, he was awarded the title of Geshe Lharampa, and later, after entering Gyume Tantric College, he was awarded the degree of Ngag-rampa (the highest Tantric degree in the Gelukpa tradition). The Dalai Lama appointed him as the abbot of Gyume, a position which he filled for a term of three years. He currently teaches throughout the US, Canada, and Asia. ARTEMUS B. ENGLE studied Buddhism with the late Sera Mey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche for more than thirty years. Over much of the past decade, he has continued his studies as a student of Gyume Khensur Lobsang Jampa Rinpoche. In 1983, he earned a doctorate in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin and is currently a fellow with the Tsadra Foundation.
"The Guhyasamaja Tantra is one of the most important practices in
the Gelukpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and Lama Tsongkhapa
himself has spent tremendous effort in explaining, clarifying, and
giving instruction on this practice. Gyume Khensur Lobsang Jampa
holds the uninterrupted lineage of this practice coming from Lama
Tsongkhapa himself. Making such an explication available to
advanced, sincere Western Dharma students is a great gift and
opportunity."-Yangsi Rinpoche, president of Maitripa College
"Artemus Engle deserves our great thanks and hearty congratulations
for his heroic effort in studying the Guhyasamaja generation-stage
practices and in achieving a lucid English translation of this
exceptional teaching by the highly respected expert
practitioner/scholar, the retired abbot of the Gyume Lower Tantric
College in South India, Khensur Lobsang Jampa Rinpoche. This
detailed exposition of the sophisticated creative yoga of the
advanced tantric monk-practitioners will finally help scholars, who
are just beginning to go beyond the sensationalism attached to this
field, to undertake the serious exploration of the original
texts-the software of the yogis. It will also become an important
source for practitioners who aim for a taste of the extraordinary
possible attainments, for which these time-tested Indian and
Tibetan traditions provide an amazingly well-developed set of key
insights and techniques."-Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa
Professor Emeritus of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia
University
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