Back in the
1970s and ‘80s most of the great lamas to leave
Tibet were still alive and teaching. Those of us who
had the good fortune to be in India and Nepal at that
time were able to benefit by sitting at their feet,
drinking in the nectar of their holy speech. It was
a wonderful time.
Many of the teachings in this book were given at Tushita
Mahayana Meditation Center, New Delhi, of which
I was director from 1977 to 1983, and published in a
volume called Teachings at Tushita (New Delhi:
Mahayana Publications, 1981), which I co-edited with
Glenn H. Mullin. I therefore acknowledge here Glenn’s
kind, if indirect, contribution to this book—they
have all been re-edited for this title.
Two of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings
were published in a souvenir booklet issued for Tushita’s
Second Dharma Celebration, November 1982, the first
at which His Holiness spoke.
Three of the others are from unpublished manuscripts
that I have been carrying around for nearly thirty years,
waiting for the right moment. I guess this is it.
—Nicholas Ribush
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