Perhaps the most widely known and loved deity throughout the Buddhist world, Chenrezig-also known as Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin, or Kannon-is the Buddha of Compassion. Buddhists turn to Chenrezig for protection, friendship, and inspiration on a daily basis. The meditation practice in this book--composed by a teacher with an extensive Western following--is presented as a useful manual for ease of practice. An enlightening-and often humorous-commentary by well-known author Thubten Chodron offers instructions and tips on making the practice even more relevant to daily life.

Cultivating a Compassionate Heart, Thubten Chodron, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, March 2006, 155 Pages, $22.95

Thubten Chodron, born Cheryl Greene, is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States.[2] Chodron is a central figure in the reinstatement of the Bhikshuni (Tib. Gelongma) ordination of women. She is a student of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and other Tibetan masters. She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and is co-authoring with the Dalai Lama a multi-volume series of teachings on the Buddhist path, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion.

	Contents: Cultivating a Compassionate Heart
	Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama	9
	Preface by Lama Zopa Rinpoche	11
	Acknowledgments	15
	Meditation on Thousand-Arm Chenrezig	17
	A Lamentation Requesting Blessings from the Great Compassionate One	31
	Commentary on the Yoga Method of Chenrezig
	1. Getting Started	39
	2. Purifying Negativities and Accumulating Positive Potential	59
	3. Request Prayer	67
	4. The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation	73
	5. Purifying and Receiving Inspiration	93
	6. Meditation on Emptiness	99
	7. Appearing as Chenrezig	119
	8. Clear Appearance and Divine Identity	135
	9. Mantra Recitation	155
	10. Working with Our Stuff	171
	11. More Meditations	187
	12. Concluding the Sadhana and Practice in Daily Life	195
	Glossary	199
	Additional Reading	205