What is tantra ? Who is qualified to practice it ? How should it be practiced:? What are the results ? According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve profound and lasting happiness. And according to the tantric teachings of Buddhism, this remarkable transformation can be realized very quickly if we utilize all aspects of our human energy-especially the energy of our desires.
Introduction to Tantra is the best available clarification of a subject that is often misunderstood. In this book Lama Yeshe, who was a fully realized tantric meditator, scholar, and yogi, outlines the entire tantric path.

Introduction to Tantra, Lama Yeshe, Wisdom Publications, 192 Pages, $19.95

"...as lucid an explanation of Buddhist tantra system of transformation-as you are likely to find. This is a wonderful addition to a new Dharma literature in English that is developing in our time. It has already become a classic." - Philip Glass

"No other member of the tradition has ever talked about tantra with such clarity, coherence and simpliciry, and no one has summarized the essence of tantra so well as Thubten Yeshe does here."
- Religious Studies Review

LAMA THUBTEN YESHE (1935-84) was born in Tibet and educated at the great Sera Monastic University. He fled the Chinese oppression in 1959 and in the late 1960s, with his chief disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, began teaching Buddhism to Westerners at their Kopan Monasrery, Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1975 they founded the international Buddhist organization, the Foundation for the Preservarion of the Mahayana Tradition (FPM1 ), which now has about 80 branches worldwide.

Foreword by Philip Glass
Preface

1 Basic Purity

2 Desire and Happiness

3 Pleasure, Disappointment, and Fulfillment

4 Overthrowing the Tyranny of Ordinary Appearances

5 Emerging from Dissatisfaction

6 Opening the Heart

7 Dissolving Self-Created Limitations

8 Clear Spaciousness of Mind

9 Inspiration and the Guru

10 Entering Highest Tantric Practice

11 Arising as a Deity

12 Final Accomplishment

Glossary
Selected Additional Reading
Index