Knowledge of Time & Space: An Inquiry into Knowledge, Self & Reality

by Tarthang Tulku

Knowledge of Time and Space by Tarthang Tulku celebrates the power of time and space to free us from limitations. At times light and dancing, at times deep and provocative, the text communicates the pleasure of unbounded inquiry. Like an ever fresh work of art, it reveals new facets of a unified vision, inviting the reader to join in a voyage of discovery.Elegant and luminous, Knowledge of Time and Space offers the chance for active participation in creation. Organized into more than a hundred short chapters that at times read like aphorisms, it offers countless starting points for inquiry, never insisting but always allowing. The presentation follows no ordinary logic; instead, the reader is swept up in an adventure that takes form only in the course of unfolding. In contrast to the more rigorous presentation of Love of Knowledge and the focused exposition found in Time, Space, and Knowledge, this work displays the flashing, penetrating presence of knowledge as it operates throughout time and space.

Genres: Buddhism

550 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche (དར་ཐན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ dar-than sprul-sku rin-po-che) is a Tibetan teacher ("lama") in the Nyingma ("old translation") tradition. Having received a complete Buddhist education in pre-diaspora Tibet, he taught philosophy at Sanskrit University in India from 1962 to 1968, and emigrated to America in 1969, where he settled in Berkeley, CA. He is often credited as having introduced the Tibetan medicine practice of Kum Nye (སྐུ་མཉེ sku mnye་, "subtle-body massage") to the West.

In 1963, he founded Dharma Publishing in Varanasi, India, moving it to California in 1971. The main purpose of the publishing house is to preserve and distribute Tibetan Buddhist teachings and to bring these teachings to the West.

Neither Rinpoche nor Tulku are surnames; the former is an honorific applied to respected teachers meaning "Precious One," while the latter is a title given to those who have be recognized an the reincarnation of a previous lama.