This book presents, with the intimate freshness of a personal teaching, the main practices of the Mahayana Buddhist path. It details the attitudes cultivated in meditation ranging from turning away from cyclic existence, to developing love and compassion for all beings, to the profound view of emptiness.
Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main Practices of the Mahayana Buddhist Path, Kensur Lekden, trans. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins, Paperback, 175 pp, $14.95

Kensur Lekden embodied the total involvement of the mind as taught in the Mahayana tradition. His blend of compassion, wisdom and wit is most striking in the teachings. He was the Abbot of the Tantric College of Lower Lhasa prior to the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Renowned among the Tibetans as a great teacher, in this work he highlights the incisive and direct approach of mind transformation that runs contrary to the ordinary worldly perspective. he knew the meaning of applying the great teachings as precepts for practical application.

Jeffrey Hopkins (translator and editor) is Professor Emeritus of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he has taught Tibetan Studies and Tibetan language since 1973. At the University of Virginia he served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years and founded a program in Buddhist Studies.

CONTENTS: Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot
Preface		7
1.	Love	11
2.	Compassion	23
3.	Joy	35
4.	Equanimity	49
5.	Cyclic Existence	63
6.	The Mind of Enlightenment	75
7.	Mothers' Kindness	85
8.	The Benefits of Love	95
9.	Great Compassion	99
10.	The Unusual Attitude	109
11.	Wisdom	119
12.	Nagarjuna	133
13.	Are a Person and Mind and Body the Same or Different?	143
14.	Nothingness Is Not Emptiness	155
15.	The Supreme Practitioner	165
Selected Readings		175