The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, and TraditionThe Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis' most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas and studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition before the communist invasion of Tibet in 1949. |
Contents
The Active Life 229 | 29 |
On Crossing Religious Frontiers | 59 |
On Soliciting and Imparting Spiritual Counsel | 79 |
The Place of Compassion in Tibetan Spirituality | 109 |
Sikkim Buddhism Today and Tomorrow | 131 |
Do Clothes Make the Man? | 151 |
The Dalai Lama | 173 |
The Tibetan Tradition | 193 |
The Everlasting Message | 227 |
Discovering the Interior Life | 243 |
A Buddhist Garland for the Jagadguru | 265 |
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Page xxvii - All that can usefully be said of it at the moment is that wherever a complete tradition exists this will entail the presence of four things, namely: a source of inspiration or, to use a more concrete term, of Revelation; a current of influence or Grace issuing forth from that source and transmitted without interruption through a variety of channels; a way of "verification...
Page xiii - ... popular' may often be allied with deep insights, of course, for the above distinctions are not intended in a social sense. Certainly in the Tibet we visited while the traditional order there was still intact the whole landscape was as if suffused by the message of the Buddha's Dharma; it came to one with the air one breathed, birds seemed to sing of it, mountain streams hummed its refrain as they bubbled across the stones, a dharmic perfume seemed to rise from every flower, at once a reminder...
Page xxviii - Grace issuing forth from that source and transmitted without interruption through a variety of channels; a way of 'verification' which, when faithfully followed, will lead the human subject to successive positions where he is able to 'actualize' the truths that Revelation communicates; finally there is the formal embodiment of tradition in the doctrines, arts, sciences and other elements that together go to determine the character of a normal civilization.