Blazing Splendor: The Memoirs of the Dzogchen Yogi Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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An insightful memoir illuminating the profound experiences and magical world of a Tibetan Buddhist master.&“Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was among Tibetan Buddhism&’s greatest teachers of the twentieth century. His memoir, Blazing Splendor, invites us to join him as he looks back over a life that put him at the center of an unparalleled spiritual abundance. Through his unblinking eyes we meet remarkable contemplative adepts. And through the lens of his awakened awareness, we see the world from a fresh, eye-opening perspective. It is a sweeping account that shares with readers a world where miracles, mystery, and deep insight are the order of the day—a world as reflected through the open, lucid quality of Tulku Urgyen&’s mind.&” —from the foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence Blazing Splendor is a rare and profound gift: an intimate view into the world of one of the most celebrated and influential meditation masters of the last century. In these memoirs, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–96) recounts with incredible lucidity and humility his unique spiritual and familial heritage, his training in Tibetan Buddhism, and remarkable encounters with some of the most renowned masters of Tibet. This wide-reaching narrative stretches across generations to provide insight into the lived experience of contemplative adepts and into life before and after the Cultural Revolution, which left Tibet changed forever. Born the great-grandson of the seminal terma-revealer Chokgyur Lingpa and a holder of both Nyingma and Kagyu lineages, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche tells us of his unique family legacy, in which each generation has been saturated with spiritual accomplishments. He tells of how he, in time, became responsible for learning and then transmitting this lineage of Buddhist teachings, which continues today in the flourishing activities of his surviving sons Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Blazing Splendor is a window into the life of a Mahamudra and Dzogchen master that illuminates the transmission of sacred teachings in a modern world—a world we inhabit too, where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side.
Copyright:
2024

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
568 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781614298656
Related ISBNs:
9781614298434
Publisher:
Wisdom Publications
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Copyrighted By:
Erik Pema Schmidt and Marcia Binder Schmidt
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Marcia Binder Schmidt
Translator:
Erik Pema Kunsang

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