Synopses & Reviews
Born into a family of Buddhist scholars and teachers, DZOGCHEN PONLOP was ordained as a monk at an early age and studied closely with the 16th Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, two of the greatest Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. One of the foremost scholars of his generation in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism, he is an accomplished meditation master, calligrapher, visual artist, and poet. He is the primary architect for the many websites under the Nalandabodhi/Nitartha umbrella and publisher of Bodhi magazine, an internationally distributed Buddhist periodical. His Buddhist practice and study organization, which is called Nalandabodhi and is based in Seattle, has centers in many major cities in the United States and Europe.
Synopsis
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, born in 1965 in northeast India, was trained in the meditative and intellectual disciplines of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of many of the greatest masters from Tibet’s pre-exile generation. He is a widely celebrated teacher, known for his skill in making the full richness of Buddhist wisdom accessible to modern minds, and devotes much of his energy to developing a vision of a genuine Western Buddhism. His other books include Rebel Buddha, Wild Awakening, and Mind Beyond Death.