Establishing Appearances as Divine, book.

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Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

by Heidi I. Koppl

Establishing Appearances as Divine, a concise treatise by the eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist philosopher Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo, sets out to prove the provocative point that everything that appears is actually deity manifest. Many books on Tibetan Buddhism address the important themes of mind training, compassion, and proper conduct, but this penetrating study and translation of Rongzom’s text goes beyond that in its aim to bring the reader face to face with his or her pure, divine nature.

Heidi I. Koppl has worked as a translator at the Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Nepal and its affiliated centers worldwide since the 1990’s. She has been a faculty member at the Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies sinces its inception in 2001 and is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on Buddhist Tantra. She also serves as editor-in-chief of the Triple Excellence contemplative program developed by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Dharmachakra Practices.

2013