{"product_id":"the-principal-teachings-of-buddhism-9781937114183","title":"The Principal Teachings of Buddhism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe entire teachings of Buddhism explained in a few short pages by the greatest Buddhist master of ancient Middle Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spread of the teaching of Gautama Buddha began in India over twothousand years ago and reached perhaps its highest peak in the hidden mountain kingdom of Tibet, five centuries before our time. The great illuminary of this renaissance of the religion of total peace was Tsongkapa (1357-1419). He inspired a movement that at its height saw nearly a million monks and nuns living in thousands of cloisters around the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTsongkapa was the greatest commentator in the history of Buddhism and wrote some 10,000 pages in eloquent explanation of the entire range of the ancient Buddhist classics. He undertook the challenge of compressing all this knowledge into a single poem. The result was his famous Three Principal Paths, fourteen verses written for a favored student in a faraway land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTsongkapa's masterpiece appears here with a commentary by the illustrious Pabongka Rinpoche (1878-1941), generally regarded as the foremost Tibetan teacher of Buddhism during the last century. The work has been translated by Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, one of the last Buddhist masters of old Tibet. The cover shows a statue of Tsongkapa known as \"Looks Like Me,\" named from Tsongkapa's comment at the unveiling of the image. Theoriginal stood in the great Jokang Temple of Lhasa, Tibet, and was destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diamond Cutter Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937114183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 271","brand":"Geshe Michael Roach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44776048984245,"sku":"9781937114183","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a4e3cef1-df28-485d-bc07-d1ab5463a07e.jpg?v=1730821798","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-principal-teachings-of-buddhism-9781937114183","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}