This extraordinary teaching, given in the living room of a sangha member's home in Texas, has become a truly classic teaching because of Thrangu Rinpoche's pithy, brilliant and clear commentary on the root text of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye's The Essential Points of Creation and Completion That will Benefit the Beginner Who Has Entered the Path, as published in Sarah Harding's 1996 edition of Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation. First widely circulated as audio cassettes in 1997 and 1998, this teaching was transcribed, the root text added, and published as The Essence of Creation and Completion in New Zealand in 2000. Later Rinpoche's teaching was added to the 2002 edition of Sarah Harding's book. These five talks are a definitive commentary by one of the truly great masters of the Kagyu lineage on the profound meaning of all practices involving Creation and Completion stages. Because Rinpoche spoke Tibetan at length, the CD's are primarily the voice of the translator, Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.

A Commentary on Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye's Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation 5 audio CD's, Vajra Echoes, $42.00

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist master known for his deep compassion and the clarity of his teachings. He was selected by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to serve as the principal tutor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Oryen Trinley Dorje.

Thrangu Rinpoche is a full holder and teacher of the Kagyu Vajrayana lineages. He founded the Namo Buddha retreat center in Nepal, has established two shedras (monastic universities) in Nepal and India, and serves as Abbot of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. He also built Tara Abbey, where nuns receive a full dharma education qualifying them to become khenpos or teachers. Thrangu Rinpoche teaches entensively throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. He has centers in Maine and California, and is building the Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.