Vajra Wisdom: Deity Practice in Tibetan Buddhism Nyima Kunkyen Tenpe

Vajra Wisdom contains two of the most important explanations of the "development stage" of meditation, relevant for most practitioners in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it Now available in paperback for the first time.The practices of deity, mantra, and wisdom are also known within the Tibetan system as the "development stage," because the practitioner is said to attain spiritual insight by developing meditative visualizations that bring the experience of awakening directly into one's present life, without having to wait for later spiritual fulfillment.Vajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters, Kunkyen Tenpe Nyima and Shechen Gyaltsap IV, which guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions.