Inside Knowledge: How to Activate the Radical New Vision of Reality of Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku

by Tarthang Tulku, Michael Gray, Piet Hut

In 1977, Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku presented to the world a new vision of reality, based on time, space, and knowledge as the three facets of being. Not bound to Buddhist teachings, it was a response to the unique qualities and challenges of this troubled age. This new book, collecting and integrating a wide range of materials into a coherent whole, provides a long-awaited key to engaging this revolutionary new vision and to unlocking the treasures it holds.

225 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1728

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.