Freeing the Heart and Mind - Part Two: Chogyal Phagpa on the Buddhist PathPaperback
Freeing the Heart and Mind - Part Two: Chogyal Phagpa on the Buddhist PathPaperback Explore two seminal Sakya texts with an incomparable teacher.His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Sakya Trichen Rinpoche,…
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Freeing the Heart and Mind - Part Two: Chogyal Phagpa on the Buddhist PathPaperback
Explore two seminal Sakya texts with an incomparable teacher.His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Sakya Trichen Rinpoche, the noble forty-first head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, with his trademark clarity and deep wisdom here unpacks two texts by the legendary thirteenth-centurty Drogon Chogyal Phagpa. His two texts presented here, A Gift of Dharma to Kublai Khan and A Garland of Jewels, which was written as advice for Prince Gibek Timur, are marvels of insight.Freeing the Heart and Mind begins with a biography of Chogyal Phagpa by Ngawang Kunga Sonam, himself an important Sakya throneholder. The fifth leader of the Sakya school, Chogyal Phagpa became the first imperial preceptor under Kublai Khan and thus converted the Mongols to Tibetan Buddhism.
The two texts are then presented in sparkling translation, each accompanied by penetrating