Joyful Path of Good Fortune
The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment
2nd Edition
Published on 10. March 2005
Audio
CD-Audio
978-0-948006-96-8 (ISBN)
Description
- Ideal for those with busy lives for listening while relaxing, working, meditating or travelling in the car. - An effortless way of refreshing and deepening our understanding. We all have the potential for self-transformation, and a limitless capacity for the growth of good qualities, but to fulfil this potential we need to know what to do at every stage of our spiritual journey. With this book, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso offers us step-by-step guidance on the meditation practices that will lead us to lasting inner peace and happiness. With extraordinary clarity, he presents all Buddha's teachings in the order in which they are to be practised, enriching his explanation with stories and analogies. A perfect guidebook to the Buddhist path.
Reviews / Votes
'Geshe Kelsang Gyatso both delights in and has a profound insight into the entire range of the teachings of Buddha. Difficult technical points are rendered into pleasantly readable prose, and the text as a whole is both absorbing and illuminating.' - Tibetan Review 'This book is invaluable.' - World ReligionsMore details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Ulverston
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 127 mm
Duration
Dauer: 999 min
Weight
998 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-948006-96-8 (9780948006968)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Kelsang Gyatso | Michael Sington
Joyful Path of Good Fortune
Complete Guide to the Buddhist Path to Enlightenment
Audio
12/1995
Tharpa Publications
€116.28
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Person
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism who has pioneered the introduction of modern Buddhism into contemporary society. He is the author of 22 highly acclaimed books that perfectly transmit the ancient wisdom of Buddhism to our modern world. He has founded over 1200 Kadampa Buddhist centres and groups throughout the world.
Content
PART ONE: Foundations and the Initial Scope; The Stages of the Path; The Qualities of the Author; The Qualities of the Teaching; Listening to and Teaching Dharma; Preparing for Meditation; What is Meditation?; Relying upon a Spiritual Guide; Our Precious Human Life; Meditation on Death; The Sufferings of the Lower Realms; Going for Refuge; Karma; PART TWO: The Intermediate Scope; Developing the Wish to Attain Liberation; The Four Noble Truths; Meditation on True Sufferings; Delusions and Actions, Death and Rebirth; The Twelve Dependent-related Links; The Wheel of Life; The Path to Liberation; PART THREE: The Great Scope; Entering the Mahayana; Developing Bodhichitta; Engaging in a Bodhisattva's Actions; Training the Mind in Tranquil Abiding; Training the Mind in Superior Seeing; Progressing through the Spiritual Grounds and Paths; The Vajrayana Paths; Full Enlightenment; Dedication; Appendix I - The Condensed Meaning of the Text; Appendix II - Sadhanas; Essence of Good Fortune; Prayers for Meditation; Glossary; Bibliography; Study Programmes; Index