The Swift Path
A Meditation Manual on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
Will be published approx. on 14. April 2023
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-61429-825-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Composed by Losang Yeshâe around the turn of the seventeenth century, this text is a meditation manual on the lamrim, or "stages of the path to enlightenment." The author, commonly referred to as either the Fifth or Second Paònchen Lama, depending on the convention for enumeration, formulated it as a supplement to the Easy Path (Delam) written by his immediate predecessor, Losang Chèokyi Gyaltsen, who was tutor to the Fifth Dalai Lama. Carrying great significance in the genre of lamrim literature, it came to be recognized as part of a collection of texts known as the eight great lamrims"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Somerville
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61429-825-0 (9781614298250)
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03/2023
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The author of the Swift Path, Panchen Losang Yeshé, is commonly known as the Second Panchen Lama. In 1668 at the age of four he was recognized as the reincarnation of the famous teacher Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen by the Fifth Dalai Lama and enthroned at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatsé. Years later he conferred ordination vows on the Sixth Dalai Lama and subsequently the Seventh Dalai Lama. By the time he passed away in 1737 at the age of about seventy-four, he had written on a vast range of subjects, including biographies, poetry, lamrim explanations, tantric commentaries, and supplication prayers.