The Wheel of Time Kalachakra in Context

by Sopa, Geshe Lhundub; Jackson, Roger R.; H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

• ISBN13: 9781559390019
• ISBN10: 1559390018
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-01
• Publisher: Snow Lion

Summary

Discuss Buddhist background history, initiation rites, generation and completion stage practices of Kalachakra.

Author Biography

Geshe Lhundub Sopa is the main teacher at Deer Park, Abbot of Evam monastery and a Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He was born in 1923 in Tsang province in western Tibet, joined Sera Monastery in Lhasa, and attained highest honors in his Geshe exams. Like the Dalai Lama and so many other Tibetans, he fled to India in 1959. In 1962, Geshe Sopa was asked by the Dalai Lama to accompany three young Tulkus (reincarnate lamas) to America, where they would receive both Western and Buddhist education. In 1967, he was invited by Professor Richard Robinson, founder of the Buddhist Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin, to come to the Madison campus to teach.