Crystal Mirror 4: Bringing the Teachings Alive: The Buddhist Heritage of Tibet by Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche bowl This version

This version

which was censured by the Tibetan government in the seventeenth century

This expanded edition includes Counsel for Liberation

Longchenpa thoroughly studied and mastered every one of the many Buddhist vehicles and lineages of teachings existing in Tibet at his time

with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries

Crystal Mirror 4: Bringing the Teachings Alive: The Buddhist Heritage of Tibet by Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche bowl This versionBringing the Teachings Alive focuses on the history, lineages, and practices of Buddhism in Tibet. Published to encourage understanding of the Vajrayana and of the Nyingma lineage that transmits it, this volume includes accounts of the Great Guru and his twenty five disciples, a profound Dzogchen text by Longchenpa, and essays on the founding of the Dharma in the land of snows. Longchenpa's "Natural Freedom of Mind" was translated by Dr. H. V.