The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness

by Dalai Lama XIV and Jeffrey Hopkins

Book Overview

His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher . The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind in compassion for other beings is directly related to--and in fact a prerequisite for--the very pinnacle of Buddhist meditation. He presents his understanding, confirmed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559394536
• ISBN13: 9781559394536
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"