Monday 1 August 2011

LOSING THE CLOUDS, GAINING THE SKY - EDITOR DORIS WOLTER, MULTIPLE WRITERS







RATING - A-

Bite-sized teachings from a multitude of teachers set out in specific sections. These teachings come from more than a dozen Tibetan Buddhist masters, mostly of the Nyingma tradition, including Dzogchen Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Orgyen Tobgal Rinpoche and Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. Those mentioned are among the ones most meaningful to me.

It was very easy to read for somebody such as myself, who finds they have twenty minutes here and twenty-five there, but who cannot sit down and devour a giant 2-3 hour chunk of text in one sitting. I found the book inspirational and it helped clarify a few points that had previously been somewhat misty. I would recommend it to Buddhist students of the Vajrayana/Dzogchen leaning - especially those of the Nyingma lineages who wish to collect snippets of help.

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