The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava (Two Volume Set)

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Summary: Sheer beauty and inspiration
Review: Thisis an expensive outlay, but well worth it! Fifty eight illustrations from Padmasambhav's life, in those natural colour traditional paintings,bring the text to life. Many of the illustrations have see-through overlays explaining the various parts of the picture. Padmasambhava is a refreshing and often neglected figure in Tibetan Buddhism, a religion which in recent centuries has been dominated by a rather dry monastic flavour, and by rigorous but rather uninspiring philosophical and logical debates. This work stimulates and extends the imagination in ways which I haven't encountered in much of the other literature on Tibetan Buddhism. This two volume is truly a piece of art, produced with much love and devotion by the Nyingma sect's Dharma Publishing. Thoroughly recommended!