The Copper-Colored Mountain stupa Teaching Wisdom Culture in the

Teaching Wisdom Culture in the West

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Dudjom Rinpoche in America in 1976

Title: A CONCISE INTROUDUCTION TO TIBETAN BUDDHISM

one of the world's leading scholars on Gendun Chopel

The Copper-Colored Mountain stupa Teaching Wisdom Culture in theThe Copper Colored Mountain is the pure land of Padmasambhava, the Indian master who brought Buddhism to Tibet. One way in which Buddhist practitioners may be reborn in this pure land is by making aspiration prayers. This work includes a translation of one of the most famous of these aspiration prayers, composed by Jigme Lingpa, and the authors verse by verse analysis of it. Drawing on both traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarly texts,