Keys of Knowledge

by Tarthang Tulku

How is our experience being produced, moment to moment?Could it ever be different?In a series of short but penetrating essays, Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku examines how language and perception condition our sense of reality, and how ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘mine’ and ‘mind’ both facilitate and limit our understanding of ourselves. A closer look at time and the operations of mind opens up a startling our ability to contact transformative knowledge may be far greater than we realize.Using simple, accessible language to address complex and challenging themes drawn from years of study with the masters of his tradition, Tarthang Tulku takes readers on a journey to the heart of human experience.

205 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2017

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

[Joanne McKinnon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sometimes it’s hard to calm the chaos in our mind. Reading books such as this one, guides you in the right direction.