Reflections on a mountain lake
Subtitle: teachings on practical Buddhism
By: Venerable Tenzin Palmo.
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Tenzin Palmo, 1943-; Buddhist nuns -- Biography.; Buddhism -- China -- Tibet.; Spiritual biography -- Great Britain; Spiritual life -- Buddhism.
Genres: Biography.
Description: A collection of Dharma teachings addresses issues of common concern to Buddhist practitioners from all traditions, drawing on the author's experiences as one of the first western women to be ordained as a Tibetian Buddhist nun.
Table of contents: title: A Western yogini; title: Motivation and Practice; title: Ethics and the three trainings; title: The six realms; title: Women and the path; title: Shamatha or calm abiding; title: Vipashyana or insight; title: Awareness; title: Difficult points for Westerners; title: Tonglen; title: Nature of mind; title: The role of the spiritual master; title: Vajrayana; title: Visualizing the deity.