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The Six Yogas of Naropa: Tsongkhapa's Commentary
by Glenn H. Mullin
from Snow Lion Publications

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• It's nice to have a translation of Je Tsongkapa's commentary to the Six Yogas
  I really enjoyed reading this book. It is always nice to be able to read anything by Lama Tsongkapa. As I was reading this book I was amazed at the detailed logical reasoning and valid scriptural citation that Lama Tsongkapa is famous for. I found the section on corpse reanimation quite amusing. I don't think that lineage exists any more. Could come in handy, I suppose!
  As I always feel slightly unsure about the precise usage of words in any of the Tibetan translations I have read thus far, I prefer to... more info

• map to the edge of the world
  I've been studying meditation systems for more than two decades, yet I'm fairly new to Tibetan Buddhist studies. "Tsongkhapa's..." solves a dilemma that I've seen crop up in other systems, that I've seen no clearer resolution to than in this keystone Tibetan text. The "dilemma" that I referred to is the conflict and bridge between systems that emphasize
  1) energy cultivation,
  2) emptiness/absolute schools or
  3) some mix of both but without a clear bridge.
  Emptiness schools often... more info

• Ian Myles Slater on: Explaining the Ineffable?
  Those fairly familiar with the (steadily growing) list of Tibetan Buddhist works in English translation may need to know only that this is a new release, with an altered title and change of cover art, of Snow Lion's 1996 volume of "Tsongkhapa's Six Yogas of Naropa," translated with a helpful introduction and useful notes by Glenn H. Mullin. If you belong to that group, and have that edition, you won't need this printing, which is apparently unchanged in any other way. (Including the omission of a... more info

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