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Tibetan Buddhists From the United Kingdom: Tibetan Buddhists From England, Ken Mcleod, Rula Lenska, Tenzin Palmo, Geshe Gyeltsen, Freda Bedi
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-06-12.
ISBN 9781157993827
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ken McLeod (1948 -) is a senior Western translator, author and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. He received traditional training mainly in the Shangpa-Kagyu lineage, through a long association with his principal teacher Kalu Rinpoche, whom he met in 1970. McLeod resides in Los Angeles, CA where he founded Unfettered Mind. He conducts classes, workshops, meditation retreats, individual practice consultations, and teacher training, in America and Canada. He teaches traditional material but is recognized for having developed an innovative, pragmatic approach to the practice of Buddhism that integrates the traditional and modern and emphasizes direct experience. Under Kalu Rinpoches guidance McLeod learned the Tibetan language and completed two, traditional three-year retreats (1976-83). In the years that followed, he traveled and worked with Kalu Rinpoche on various projects and became a prominent translator of Buddhist texts. This includes a landmark translation of The Great Path of Awakening by Jamgon Kongtrul, a key text in the teaching of Lojong (the Seven Points of Mind Training). In 1985 he settled in Los Angeles to run Kalu Rinpoches dharma center. He did so until 1990, when he founded his own organization, Unfettered Mind. He teaches strictly traditional material but is recognized (1) for having pioneered a new teacher-student model, based upon ongoing, one-on-one consultations and upon small teaching groups that have a high degree of teacher-student interaction; and (2) for his pragmatic approach to teaching, translation and practice. The intent of pragmatic Buddhism is to preserve the essence of the teachings, unchanged, but to make them more directly accessible to the Westerner. It does so by bypassing the Eastern, cultural overlay and ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14809439
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