Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava (Part 2) (Tibetan translation series)

This book is worth every penny and so much more. The teachings, the pictures and all that is Padmasambhava!

Thisis an expensive outlay, but well worth it! Fifty eight illustrations from Padmasambhav's life, in those natural colour traditional paintings,bring the text to life. Many of the illustrations have see-through overlays explaining the various parts of the picture. Padmasambhava is a refreshing and often neglected figure in Tibetan Buddhism, a religion which in recent centuries has been dominated by a rather dry monastic flavour, and by rigorous but rather uninspiring philosophical and logical debates. This work stimulates and extends the imagination in ways which I haven't encountered in much of the other literature on Tibetan Buddhism. This two volume is truly a piece of art, produced with much love and devotion by the Nyingma sect's Dharma Publishing. Thoroughly recommended!