Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend: With Commentary By Kangyur Rinpoche

by Kyabje Kangyur (Commentaries by), Padmakara Translation Group (Translator)

Overview

The great Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna wrote his celebrated poem Letter to a Friend as a gift of advice to a South Indian king, and it has since become a monument in the Indian shastra tradition. Despite its short length (only 123 verses), it covers the entire Mahayana path, combining a practical approach to daily conduct with a theoretical exposition of the different stages leading to enlightenment. It has thus been an ideal source for many of Tibet’s greatest scholars seeking a scriptural authority to enhance their own descriptions of the Buddhist path.

In addition to a new English translation of the poem followed by the original Tibetan, this book includes commentary and a structural outline by the great twentieth-century scholar Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559398503
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	01/18/2006
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Nagarjuna, the South Indian Buddhist master who lived six hundred years after the Buddha, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher.