The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism The Three Principal Aspects of the Path and an Introduction to Tantra

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We are extremely grateful to our friends and supporters who have made it possible for the LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE to both exist and function: to Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, whose kindness is impossible to repay; to Peter and Nicole Kedge and Venerable Ailsa Cameron for helping bring the ARCHIVE to its present state of development; to Venerable Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa’s tireless assistant, for his kindness and consideration; and to our sustaining supporters: Barry & Connie Hershey, Joan Halsall, Roger & Claire Ash-Wheeler, Claire Atkins, Doren & Mary Harper, Tom & Suzanne Castles, Hawk Furman, Richard Gere, Lily Chang Wu and Thubten Yeshe. We are also deeply grateful to all those who have become members of the ARCHIVE over the past couple of years. Details of our membership program may be found at the back of this book, and if you are not a member, please do consider joining up. Due to the kindness of those who have, we now have several editors—in particular Ven. Tenzin Namdrol and Ven. Thubten Labdron— working on our vast collection of teachings for the benefit of all. We have posted our list of individual and corporate members on our Web site, www.LamaYeshe.com. We also thank Henry & Catherine Lau, S. S. Lim and Charmaine Wai for their help with our membership program in Singapore and Malaysia. Thank you all so much for your foresight and kindness. In particular, we would like to express our appreciation to Doss McDavid for so kindly sponsoring the reprint of this book and for his appreciation of and enthusiasm for the teachings of Lama Thubten Yeshe. We have many more of Lama’s teachings available for sponsorship, so please contact us if you would like to help bring them to others. I would also like to express my gratitude for the kindness and compassion of all those other generous benefactors who have contributed funds to our work since we began publishing free books several years ago. Thankfully, you are all too numerous to mention individually in this book but we value highly each and every donation made to spreading the Dharma for the sake of the kind mother sentient beings and now pay tribute to you all on our Web site. Thank you so much. Finally, I would like to thank the many kind people who have asked that their donations be kept anonymous; the volunteers who have given so generously of their time to help us with our mailings, especially Therese Miller; my wife, Wendy Cook, for her constant help and support; our dedicated office staff, Jennifer Barlow and Sonal Shastri; Veronica Kaczmarowski, Evelyn Williames, FPMT Australia & Mandala Books (Brisbane) for much appreciated assistance with our work in Australia; and Dennis Heslop, Philip Bradley and our other friends at Wisdom Books (London) for their great help with our work in Europe. We appreciate, too, the kindness and expertise of our volunteer transcribers and Greg Sneddon and his wonderful team of volunteers in Melbourne, Australia—including Dr. Su Hung, Anne Pottage, Llysse Valez, Chris Friedl and Anthony Deague— who have digitized our entire archive of more than 10,000 hours of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche and continue to help us in this area. We also thank most sincerely Massimo Corona and the FPMT International Office for their generous financial and administrative assistance. If you, dear reader, would like to join this noble group of open-hearted altruists by contributing to the production of more free books by Lama Yeshe or Lama Zopa Rinpoche or to any other aspect of the LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE’s work, please contact us to find out how.