King of the Empty Plain The Tibetan Iron

The core of this book is a complete translation of the most famous biography of the great adept Tangtong Gyalpo, King of the Empty Plain (1385-1464), whose impact on the religious, artistic, and technological history of Tibet is unrivaled.

Cyrus Stearns has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism for over thirty-five years. His main Tibetan teachers were Dezhung Rinpoche Chogye Trichen Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He received a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Washington and is the author of several books including Taking the Result As the Path and King of the Empty Plain. He is currently a and independent scholar and translator and lives in the woods on Whidbey Island north of Seattle Washington.

Preface	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. xiii
List of Plates	p. xix
Introduction
The Life and the Lifespan	p. 1
King of the Empty Plain	p. 14
Iron-Bridge Man	p. 33
Madman of the Empty Valley	p. 58
A Jewel Mirror in Which All Is Clear	p. 81
Prologue	p. 83
Hundreds of Thousands of Lifetimes	p. 87
A Mental Emanation of Padmasambhava	p. 95
Crazy Tsondru Is Insane	p. 103
The White Light of Profound and Vast Instructions	p. 133
Five Names of Suitable Meaning	p. 149
Uddiyana, the Land of Dakinis	p. 169
Appearances Are Like Dream and Illusion	p. 191
A Situation in Which a Yogin Needs Iron	p. 215
Fine Pathways of Precious Iron	p. 243
A Relic of the Buddha Blazing with Light	p. 277
Five-Peaked Mount Wutai	p. 309
A Geomantic Focal-Point to Suppress the Mongol Armies	p. 333
The Auspicious Stupa of Many Doors	p. 363
To the Palace of the King of Kamata in India	p. 391
A Yogin Departs into the Basic Space of Phenomena	p. 421
Colophon	p. 439
The Final Story Concerning the Nirvana of the Great Adept	p. 441
Notes	p. 465
Bibliography
Sources in Tibetan Language	p. 587
Sources in European Languages	p. 607
Index	p. 615
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King of the Empty Plain The Tibetan Iron Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo

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