Poems of the Diamond Way
About this eBook
This selection of exquisite poetry by Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen comes from his biography as it appears in the classic work on the lives of the masters of the Lam Rim lineage written by Yongdzin Yeshe Gyeltsen, tutor to His Holiness the Eighth Dalai Lama. Much of the poetry here was never included in the First Panchen Lama’s traditional collected works, but has rather been taken from a secret tradition of chanting his poems at the tantric college located in his monastery of Tashi Lhunpo. The poems were written throughout his long life, starting from the age of 14, and they convey his inner progress in developing the steps of the path to Enlightenment. They also illustrate the manner in which he conducted his life and practice in the external world. In that sense, these poems are a real example for us to follow, and this selection was made to relate to particular steps of the path that we ourselves are working on.
About the author
GESHE MICHAEL ROACH (1952–) graduated with honors from Princeton University and received the Presidential Scholar Medallion from the president of the United States. He is the first westerner in the 600-year history of Sera Mey Tibetan Monastic University to be awarded the degree of geshe. Michael is the founder of the Asian Classics Input Project, which has digitally preserved thousands of ancient Asian books by training and equipping poor people in many countries during the past 35 years. To pay for this work, he helped found Andin International Diamond Corporation of New York, which reached US$250 million in sales and was sold to super-investor Warren Buffett in 2009. The Diamond Cutter, his international business bestseller, tells the story of how he used ancient Asian principles for success. Michael founded Diamond Cutter Institute Global for spreading this message to over 100,000 people each year, in more than 30 countries around the world.
