Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend

With Commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche

By Nagarjuna
By Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche
Translated by Padmakara Translation Group

$24.95
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9781559394154
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Snow Lion
07/26/2013
Pages: 208
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 9781559394154
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The great Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna wrote his celebrated poem Letter to a Friend as a gift of advice to a South Indian king, and it has since become a monument in the Indian shastra tradition. Despite its short length (only 123 verses), it covers the entire Mahayana path, combining a practical approach to daily conduct with a theoretical exposition of the different stages leading to enlightenment. It has thus been an ideal source for many of Tibet’s greatest scholars seeking a scriptural authority to enhance their own descriptions of the Buddhist path.

In addition to a new English translation of the poem presented alongside the original Tibetan, this book includes commentary and a structural outline by the great twentieth-century scholar Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche.

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Nagarjuna
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