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Calm abiding & special insight : achieving spiritual transformation through meditation
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"Calm Abiding and Special Insight presents an intimate and detailed picture of the intricacies of meditation so vividly that the reader is drawn into a Tibetan world-view of spiritual development. ...
"Calm Abiding and Special Insight presents an intimate and detailed picture of the intricacies of meditation so vividly that the reader is drawn into a Tibetan world-view of spiritual development. Geshe Gedun Lodro, one of the foremost scholars of Tibet, reveals methods for overcoming afflictive states and disorders to create a mind which is stable, calm and alertly clear. This book illustrates the mind's potential for profound transformation."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Geshe Gedün Lodrö ; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins ; co-edited by Anne C. Klein and Leah Zahler
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- English
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, [1998]
- ©1998
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- 334 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781559391108, 1559391103
- OCLC
- ocm39523445
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [300]-309) and index.
- Pt. 1. Calm Abiding. 1. Prerequisites. 2. Physical Posture. 3. Objects of Observation. 4. Nine Mental Abidings. 5. Achieving Calm Abiding. 6. Signs of Calm Abiding. 7. Rising from Meditative Equipoise -- Pt. 2. Expansion. 8. Textbooks and Debate. 9. Hinayana and Mahayana. 10. Order and Benefits of Cultivating Calm Abiding and Special Insight. 11. Physical Basis. 12. Mental Bases. 13. More Types of Objects of Observation. 14. Path of Seeing and Related Questions -- Pt. 3. Special Insight. 15. Modes of Procedure. 16. Progressing on the Mundane Path. 17. Mundane Path of Special Insight. 18. Individual Knowledge of the Character. 19. Summary