In 1988, Gen Lamrimpa, a Tibetan monk and contemplative, led a one-year retreat in the Pacific Northwest, during which a group of Western meditators devoted themselves to the practice of meditative quiescence (samatha). This book is a record of the oral teachings he gave to this group at the outset of the retreat. The teachings are brought to life by Gen Lamrimpa's warmth, humor, and extensive personal experience as a contemplative recluse. An invaluable, practical guide for those seeking to develop greater attentional stability and clarity, this work will be of considerable interest to meditators, psychologists, and all others who are concerned with the potentials of the human mind.
"Calming the Mind provides very practical and experientially grounded teachings.''-Joe B. Wilson, The Tibet Joumal
Calming the Mind: Tibetan Buddhist Teaching on Cultivating Meditative Quiescence, Gen Lamrimpa, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 147 pages, $19.95
Gen Lamrimpa, Ven. Jampal Tenzin, was bom in Tibet in 1934. A close disciple of H. H. the Dalai Lama, he has been living in meditative solitude in the mountains high above Dharamsala, India, since 1971. There he has gained a reputation for his deep experience of the "stages of the path" practices. He is also renowned as an accomplished practitioner of meditative stabilization and tummo (psychic heat) as well as other tantric meditations.
B. Alan Wallace hos served as interpreter for many distinguished Tibetan lamas and has taught extensively in Europe and America. He is the author of A Passage from Solitude and Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind. He has also translated numerous works on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, and culture.
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