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==Authored [[Books]]== | ==Authored [[Books]]== | ||
| − | * [[Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]] | + | * [[Atisha's]] [[Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]] |
* The [[Bodhisattva Vow]] | * The [[Bodhisattva Vow]] | ||
* [[Eight Verses for Training the Mind]] | * [[Eight Verses for Training the Mind]] | ||
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* The [[Heart Sutra]] | * The [[Heart Sutra]] | ||
* How [[Karma]] Works | * How [[Karma]] Works | ||
| − | * [[Nagarjuna's]] "Seventy | + | * [[Nagarjuna's]] "[[Seventy [Stanzas]]" |
* The [[Six Perfections]] | * The [[Six Perfections]] | ||
* The [[Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas]] | * The [[Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:01, 9 February 2015
Geshe Sonam Rinchen was born in Trehor region of Kham in Eastern Tibet in 1933. In 1945, he joined Dhargyey Monastery, and entered the monastic university of Sera in Lhasa in 1952, where he studied until he was forced to flee Tibet in 1959.
In India he completed his studies for the degree of Geshe Lharampa which he received in 1980. He also received the degree of Acarya from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath. He was appointed resident teacher at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala, India in 1978, where he teaches Buddhist philosophy and practice, mainly to westerners. He has also taught in Japan, Australia, Great Britain, South Korea, Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Authored Books
- Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
- The Bodhisattva Vow
- Eight Verses for Training the Mind
- Eight Verses for Training the Mind, Spanish-language edition
- The Heart Sutra
- How Karma Works
- Nagarjuna's "[[Seventy [Stanzas]]"
- The Six Perfections
- The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
- The Three Principle Aspects of the Path
- Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas, Current Edition, Aryadeva's Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way
- Buddha Nature, 2003 Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
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