Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga: A Complete Guide to Health and Wellbeing

by Tarthang Tulku

Based on a traditional healing system, this yoga helps to relieve stress, transform old patterns and promote balance and health. This user friendly, Smyth sewn edition contains the complete text and illustrations of our two-volume set, first published in 1978, and includes a new introduction by the author. The original books have become a valued resource for individuals and health-care practitioners around the world. They have been translated into 15 languages.

Genres: Buddhism, Nonfiction, Spirituality

445 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

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.

Reviews

[Larry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really awakened my realization of the mind body connection. The postures and movement between postures is done very slowly, with great intention and attention. It has helped me with my back pain and low energy. I am now much more pain free and very energetic.

[CC · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't rate this, because it's an instructional manual. But the various Kum Nye classes I've been taking have used it as a guide, and they have been immensely transformative...