Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00121)

Tony:
>  That is all very well, but what of
>the TDA-SHI (various spellings) lama, the SPRITUAL leader of Tibet?  The
>Dalai Lama is often now seen as the spiritual leader of Tibet, and
>amazingly, the Tdashi as the outer.

The is a short biography of one of the most revered of the Tashi or
Panchen Lamas -- the First -- in ENLIGHTENED BEINGS by Janice Willis,
Wisdom Pubs. This book gives much information about several Bodhisattvas
that the Geluk order produced soon after the time of Je Tsongkhapa.

You will also find the First Panchen Lama's text THE GOLDEN KEY, a
teaching on the tantric six yogas of Naropa, in READINGS ON THE SIX YOGAS
OF NAROPA.  Also the First Tashi Lama's Mahamudra teachings, with
commentary by the present Dalai Lama are in THE GELUK/KAGYU TRADITION OF
MAHAMUDRA, trs. by A. Berzin, Snow Lion Pubs.

There may be other works in English by this Panchen or some of the
others, but this is all that comes to mind at present.

--
<> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
  The effects of karma may be counteracted or mitigated by the thoughts
  and acts of oneself or of another.  "Aphorisms on Karma"