Tales Of Awakening

Drawn from the teachings, travels, and spontaneous interactions with the students of Namgyal Rinpoche, the first westerner to be recognised by the Tibetans as an incarnate Lama, this skillfully-curated collection of first-hand student recollections conveys a deep level of relationship with a living meditation master rarely experienced outside of monastic life.

Namgyal Rinpoche’s teaching embraced many religious and philosophic traditions, but whatever tradition, vehicle, scientific approach, or religious metaphor he used revealed his students’ conditioning, as well as giving them a glimpse of the vast dharma of Compassion and Wisdom embodied in their living Teacher.

A glimpse of the myriad gems of spiritual insight shared by Namgyal Rinpoche can be gleaned from the over 180 stories and the 110 direct quotes from his Teaching included in this collection. Twenty full-colour and black-and-white images dramatically illustrate his evolving appearance over the more than forty active years of his ministry.

This book will be useful both for people familiar with an exploration of the deeper aspects of mind, as well as for people with no experience of meditation or spiritual practice.