{"product_id":"the-principal-teachings-of-buddhism-paperback","title":"The Principal Teachings of Buddhism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeshe Michael Roach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe entire teachings of Buddhism explained in a few short pages by the greatest Buddhist master of ancient Middle Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spread of the teaching of Gautama Buddha began in India over twothousand years ago and reached perhaps its highest peak in the hidden mountain kingdom of Tibet, five centuries before our time. The great illuminary of this renaissance of the religion of total peace was Tsongkapa (1357-1419). He inspired a movement that at its height saw nearly a million monks and nuns living in thousands of cloisters around the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTsongkapa was the greatest commentator in the history of Buddhism and wrote some 10,000 pages in eloquent explanation of the entire range of the ancient Buddhist classics. He undertook the challenge of compressing all this knowledge into a single poem. The result was his famous Three Principal Paths, fourteen verses written for a favored student in a faraway land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTsongkapa's masterpiece appears here with a commentary by the illustrious Pabongka Rinpoche (1878-1941), generally regarded as the foremost Tibetan teacher of Buddhism during the last century. The work has been translated by Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, one of the last Buddhist masters of old Tibet. The cover shows a statue of Tsongkapa known as \"Looks Like Me,\" named from Tsongkapa's comment at the unveiling of the image. Theoriginal stood in the great Jokang Temple of Lhasa, Tibet, and was destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGESHE MICHAEL ROACH graduated with honors from Princeton University and received the Presidential Scholar Medallion from the president of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnited States. He is the first westerner in the 600-year history of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSera Mey Tibetan Monastic University to be awarded the degree of Geshe, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor \"Master of Philosophy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael is the founder of the Asian Classics Input Project, which has digitally preserved thousands of ancient Asian books by training and equipping poor people in many countries during the past 30 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo pay for this work, he helped found Andin International\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiamond Corporation of New York, which reached US$250 million in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esales and was sold to super-investor Warren Buffett in 2009. The Diamond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutter, his international business bestseller, tells the story of how he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eused ancient Asian principles for success. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael founded the Diamond Cutter Management Training Institute for spreading this message to over 100,000 people each year, in more than 30 countries around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 271\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 7.1 x 4.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755418747168,"sku":"9781937114183","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1f49d6f100141fa953a5cdb33bfa36f2.webp?v=1780058411","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-principal-teachings-of-buddhism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}