Meeting the Buddhas
Oct 31st, 2006 by Vessantara
Windhorse Publications, Birmingham UK, 2003. Paperback. 356 pages, 27 colour plates and 36 line drawings.
ISBN:978 0 904766 53 0
My first book, written over a five year period, before its final publication in 1993 – and still selling well in a new format all these years later! It has since been divided up into three volumes:
A Guide to the Deities of the Tantra
Between them, these three volumes cover all the main figures that are meditated on in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. I aimed to give information about the figures but, even more important, a real ‘feel’ for them and the magical world into which meditation on them can lead. All these different figures embody enlightened qualities: wisdom, compassion, peace and so on. By meditating on them you can activate those qualities within yourself.
There are also German and Dutch translations available.