Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main Practices of the Mahayana Buddhist Path

The teachings of Tibetan abbott Kensur Lekden are set forth in Memoirs of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main Practices of the Mahayana Buddhist Path, trans. by Jeffrey Hopkins. The book seems inappropriately titled; it is not a memoir, but a series of lectures that Kensur Lekden gave in Wisconsin in 1970. While the abbot was an acknowledged expert in Tantra, these teachings are not particularly esoteric, and should prove quite accessible to beginners on the Buddhist path. ( Apr.)