Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00124)

Nicholas:
Thanks for the information.
Tony
>
>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"
>