Garland of Jewels: The Eight Great Bodhisattvas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781934608036)

This book is a translation of a collection of stories about the eight great bodhisattvas. These stories are all taken from sutras and tantras taught by the Buddha, such as the Avatamsaka and the Lotus Sutras. They were collected and edited by the great Buddhist teacher Mipham Namgyal (1846-1912). Mipham was one of the greatest teachers in Tibet of his time, and his writings remain the basis for much of the study conducted by his own tradition, the Nyingma school of Buddhism, and by other traditions such as the Karma Kagyu. In writing his book, Mipham combined edited extracts from his sources with his own writing about his subject. Although we typically think of Buddhist sutras as teachings accompanied by sparing narrative, we discover in this book that the great sutras of the mahayana are repositories of extraordinary accounts of miracles and great deeds performed by buddhas and bodhisattvas.

Author: Jamgon Mipham
ISBN-10: 1934608033
ISBN-13: 9781934608036
Publisher: KTD Publications
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2008
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d