The Lamrim Chenmo by Je Tsongkhapa is a comprehensive overview of the entire path to enlightenment. Meditation on the lamrim - the steps on the path - has been a core practice of Tibetan Buddhists for centuries. The lamrim presents the Buddha's teachings along a continuum of three spiritual attitudes, culminating in the supreme aspiration of the bodhisattva, who strives for buddhahood in order to relieve the suffering of all beings. Yangsi Rinpoche gave this commentary over a two-month period to a group of Western students in Dharamsala, India.


Practicing the Path,Yangsi Rinpoche, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 533 pp., $24.95

Yangsi Rinpoche was born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1968, and recognized as a reincarnate tulku at age six. At the age of ten, he entered Sera Je Monastery in South India, and in 1995 graduated with the highest degree of Geshe Lharampa. In 1998, wishing to benefit Western students of the Buddhadharma, Rinpoche came to America and resided for several years at Deer Park Buddhist Center near Madison, Wisconsin. He now lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is President of the Maitripa Institute, a new Buddhist university.