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The founder of the 'Institute for Research in Human Happiness' introduces his unique and powerful brand of Japanese Buddhism to American readers. Original.

Product Description: A contemporary and provocative examination of the life of the Buddha highlighting the influence of women from his journey to awakening through his teaching career--based on overlooked or neglected stories from ancient source material...read more

This book reveals the uncommon practice of Tantric Mahamudra of the Ganden Oral Lineage which the author received directly from his Spiritual Guide. Following the root text of the Mahamudra The Main Path of the Conquerors by the First Panchen Lama, this remarkable book provides extremely clear and easy to understand explanations and insights based on the author’s experiences during many years of retreat. Main subjects covered: • Having identified our own mind, meditating on tranquil abiding • Having realized emptiness, meditating on superior seeing • Meditating on the central channel, the yoga of the central channel • Meditating on the indestructible drop, the yoga of the drop • Meditating on the indestructible wind, the yoga of wind