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Buddhist Reflections
By: Govinda Lama

Buddhist Reflections   Govinda Lama
 
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Author: Govinda Lama
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780877287148
Publication Date: 1991


Product Code: 5182
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A collection of essays from a venerated European teacher who spent much of his life in Asia studying at the feet of masters in Tlbetan hermitages and monasteries. Lama Govinda provides an exciting overview of contemporary Buddhist philosophy for the modern student. He shares his insights into Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions concerning the nature of reality, the development of consciousness, death and rebirth, faith and tolerance, and the significance of meditative and ritual practices, all presented in a context accessible to the Western reader.
In depicting the Tantric Buddhist approach that utilizes ancient mantras and mandalas to produce meditative absorption in a unified experience of sound, color and form, Lama Govinda pays homage to a spiritual edifice of great beauty and complexity.
Lama Govinda invokes a multidimensional vision of Buddhist understanding that includes the rational perspectives of modern science and psychology, but goes far beyond them. In building a conceptual bridge between Eastern mysticism and Western philosophy, he discusses the work of Assagioli, Teilhard de Chardin and von Durkheim, among others. There are also chapters of concern~to Western society, such as the expansion of consciousness through drugs and the nature of attachment and suffering in love relationships. The material presented here was gathered from lectures and articles written by Lama Govinda shortly before his death in 1985, providing readers a close look at his warmth and lovingness.

Buddhist Reflections, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Weiser, 14.95

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