The Swift Path
A Meditation Manual on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Swift Path
A Meditation Manual on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
About this book
This collection of guided meditations from eighteenth-century Tibet harnesses elements of tantric visualization to induce realizations while contemplating the steps on the path to buddhahood. The Swift Path by the Second Panchen Lama has long been heralded in the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism as one of the "eight great lamrims, " or works presenting the stages of the path to enlightenment, but it is the last to become widely available in English translation. Composed by a preceptor of two Dalai Lamas, this practical and systematic guide to meditating on the lamrim is based on the Easy Path, a more concise work by the First Panchen Lama. In The Swift Path, Panchen Losang Yeshé expands on the earlier Panchen Lama's meditation guide with more detailed instructions on how to generate a clear and profound experience of the key recognitions that allow us to advance on our spiritual journey. These include the recognition of the opportunity afforded by our human existence, both its preciousness and its precariousness, and the way to adopt and live out the practices of a bodhisattva. The guided meditations here make use of a visualization of one's teacher in the guise of Sakyamuni Buddha to unlock our own innate potential for buddhahood, complete enlightenment, to best benefit humanity and all living beings.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Preface
- Translator’s Introduction
- Synopsis
- The Swift Path to Omniscience: An Explicit Instruction on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
- Groundwork
- The Path in Common with That of Persons with Small Capacity
- The Path in Common with That of Persons with Medium Capacity
- The Stages of the Path of Persons with Great Capacity
- Epilogue
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright