Mystery of Emptiness and Love

A Buddhist Exploration of the Innate View. What prevents you from knowing ultimate reality.

• By Domo Geshe Rinpoche
• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: Hermitage Buddhist Publishing; first edition (August 25, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0692003940
• ISBN-13: 978-0692003947

Part One defines the problem sentient beings face with understanding the nature of reality. This predicament results because the innate view causes us to see ourselves and the world around us in a way that is not consistent with the way it actually exists. Because of the innate view, we experience suffering that moves from imperceptible to manifest, while remaining in a kind of sleep-like inner stupor or hypnosis. Part Two contains the step-by-step method by which the innate view is dismantled. We arrive at the correct view through careful, sequential elimination of incorrect views. The arguments are presented in the form of short excerpts and my commentary based on Twenty Emptinesses by Chandrakirti, (600 c. 650), a small but important segment of Chandrakirti s seminal Introduction to the Middle Way, Madhyamakavatara. Part Three places the analysis of emptiness in harmony with the teachings of compassion and spiritual love. We learn how the bodhisattva heroes, enlightened beings on their way to perfect Buddhahood, think and behave. Their understanding of the illusory nature of reality might logically make them stern and unforgiving, but they are quite the opposite. How do they train themselves in love?

Red Lotus Buddhist Wisdom

• By Domo Geshe Rinpoche
• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Hermitage Buddhist Publishing; first edition (August 25, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0692004106
• ISBN-13: 978-0692004104

We hope these inspirational and thought provoking quotations by the 9th Domo Geshe Rinpoche accompanied by dramatic portraits of lotuses will awaken your natural joy as they have for her many students over the years. Although Buddhism is ancient, it remains fresh and contemporary. Known for purity, peace, and tranquility, the teachings of Buddhism also instill strength and determination in us to rise from the mud of ordinary life and gain enlightenment, just as the lotus emerges triumphantly.