About the Book: Essential Practice: Lectures On Kamalashilas Stages Of
Meditation In The Middle Way School
Essential Practice is an accessible and authoritative portrait of a
bodhisattvas view, meditation, and conduct by one of the foremost masters of the
Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the tutor of H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa.
Teaching on Kamalashilas treatises outlining the stages of meditation, Thrangu
Rinpoche explains the need for compassion and the way to develop it, the
necessity for a bodhisattvas vast and durable altruism, as well as the means to
generate, stabilize, and fortify it and the elements key to the meditative
practices of calm abiding and insight.