Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye (1813–1900) was a versatile and prolific scholar and one of the most outstanding writers and teachers of his time in Tibet. He was a pivotal figure in eastern Tibet’s nonsectarian movement and made major contributions to education, politics, and medicine.

Ngawang Zangpo

Ngawang Zangpo (Hugh Leslie Thompson) completed two three-year retreats under the direction of the late Kalu Rinpoche. He is presently working on a number of translation projects that were initiated under the direction of Chadral Rinpoche and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. He has also contributed to Kalu Rinpoche's translation group's books Myriad Worlds and Buddhist Ethics.

"Only a fraction of Tibet's vast literature of mystical poetry has yet been translated into other languages. Now with the gift of Ngawang Zangpo's inspired English translations the exquisite expressions of inner experience sung by the greatest men and women of the Shangpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism are available to the world." —Cyrus Stearns, author of The Buddha from Dolpo, Hermit of Go Cliffs, and Luminous Lives

"Our lineage's past spiritual masters used songs to express their manifest experience and realization of the spiritual path's vital subjects such as the trio of basis path and result; or view meditation and conduct; as well as dispelling hindrances and enriching meditative experience. The blessings of the lineage enter our heart the very best technique to realize our mind's abiding nature Great Seal. I pray that all who see hear or read this book be blessed." —Bokar Rinpoche

"Highly commendable volume. . . . flows beautifully and [is] rendered by a skilled and experienced translator." —Journal of Asian Studies