Dynamics of Time and Space: Transcending Limits on Knowledge

by Tarthang Tulku

Dynamics of Time and Transcending Limits on Knowledge by Tarthang Tulku offers a simple, inviting way to explore the TSK vision. Readers report that it draws them into a range of questions and experiences that is completely new. They find the book friendly in the way that a mentor might be supportive but also challenging.Here, readers have the chance to see a master of knowledge at work. Questions build on each other naturally and simply until the horizon of experience falls away, and we find ourselves somewhere wholly unexpected. Mystery itself becomes the secret path of knowledge, revealing as it conceals.A series of exercises in the last section of the book, each with an illuminating commentary, helps to deepen experience and complements the thoughtful and inspiring discussion. A central focus in the exercises related to time is the nature of pain and how to work with it. Readers have found this a surprisingly fruitful remarkable because it ignores all of our usual ideas about pain, teaching us to transform experiences that we tend to think of as fixed and fundamental.Dynamics of Time and Space is a good starting point for studying Tarthang Tulku's Time, Space, and Knowledge (TSK) vision.

Genres: Buddhism

284 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 25, 1994

About the author

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche (དར་ཐན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ dar-than sprul-sku rin-po-che) is a Tibetan teacher ("lama") in the Nyingma ("old translation") tradition. Having received a complete Buddhist education in pre-diaspora Tibet, he taught philosophy at Sanskrit University in India from 1962 to 1968, and emigrated to America in 1969, where he settled in Berkeley, CA. He is often credited as having introduced the Tibetan medicine practice of Kum Nye (སྐུ་མཉེ sku mnye་, "subtle-body massage") to the West.

In 1963, he founded Dharma Publishing in Varanasi, India, moving it to California in 1971. The main purpose of the publishing house is to preserve and distribute Tibetan Buddhist teachings and to bring these teachings to the West.

Neither Rinpoche nor Tulku are surnames; the former is an honorific applied to respected teachers meaning "Precious One," while the latter is a title given to those who have be recognized an the reincarnation of a previous lama.