Kamalashila - Buddhist Meditation: Tranquillity, Imagination and Insight

While numerous works on Buddhist meditation are available today, there is still a need for an accessible and understandable handbook. The book you are holding is precisely such an exhaustive work. By presenting some of the basic methods, it offers us a detailed map with clear instructions about the path leading to tranquillity and insight. This book is the fruit of the authors many years experience of meditation and teaching, with a wealth of advice for those who are taking their first steps on the path, as well as more experienced practitioners.
arko Andr i evi , founder of Dhammaloka, Zagreb, Croatia.

This enhanced new edition guides readers more clearly into the meditations and draws out their significance more fully, now explicitly oriented around the system of meditation. This system provides a fine framework both for understanding where various practices fit in and for reflecting on the nature of our own spiritual experiences. Kamalashila has also woven in an appreciation of a view of the nature of mind that in the Western tradition is known as the imagination, helping make an accessible link to our own philosophical and cultural traditions.
Lama Surya Das , author of Awakening the Buddha Within , founder of Dzogchen Center and Dzogchen Meditation Retreats, USA.

A wonderfully practical and accessible introduction to the important forms of Buddhist meditation. From his years of meditation practice, Kamalashila has written a book useful for both beginners and longtime practitioners.
Gil Fronsdal , author of A Monastery Within , founder of the Insight Meditation Center, California, USA.

His approach is a clear, thorough, honest, and, above all, open-ended exploration of the practical problems for those new and even quite experienced in meditation.
Lama Shenpen Hookham , author of There is More to Dying Than Death , founder of the Awakened Heart Sangha, UK.

Buddhist Meditation

Tranquillity, Imagination and Insight

Kamalashila

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Kamalashila, 1992, 2012

First edition 1992

Second edition 1996, reprinted 1999, 2003

This edition 2012

The right of Kamalashila to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset and designed by Ben Cracknell Studios

Photographs Alokavira/Timm Sonnenschein

Cover design by Dhammarati

Cover image: photograph of cat. 27c Head of a Buddha, Northern Qi dynasty (550557), from Qingzhou Municipal Museum, China, from p. 61 of Return of the Buddha , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002.

Despite numerous communications with The State Administration of Cultural Heritage, The Peoples Republic of China, the copyright holder of this image could not be located.

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ISBN: 9781-907314-09-4
epub ISBN: 978-1-907314-45-2
Kindle ISBN: 978-1-907314-42-1

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