Author: Erik Pema Kunsang, Marcia Binder Schmidt, Daniel Goleman
Narrator: Michael Toms
Unabridged: 0 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 10/20/2005
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was among Tibetan Buddhism's greatest masters of the 20th century and was highly instrumental in bringing the practice of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) Practice to the West. Erik Pema Kunsang, one of his oldest western students, along with his wife Marcia Binder Schmidt and friend, Daniel Goleman, present an intimate glimpse into a remarkable reality of a spiritual master as well as an in-depth portrait of the lost culture of old Tibet.
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