The Lion's Roar: An Introduction to Tantra

His voice is very strong here: gentle to tough as needs be but his sense of humor is ever present as well.

Great opportunity to sit in on Tantra training by Trungoa.

This is excellent, of course, as is all of Chogyam Trungpa's writing. He was obviously a genius and nothing can take away from that of the amazing profundity of his though.What impelled me to comment here is that I wanted to own all Chogyam's writings (for my assistance), but have had a hard time sorting out what to get so that I did not double up. As I received scant guidance re this I innocently acquired excess books, I want to say a little to save others from this fate. Most importantly, if you own (as I do) or can access "The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa", these volumes include what is published in many individual books & I can therefore see no reason to buy the smaller, individual books also, especially if you have to be careful with your money. So be careful & do your checking up first, eg, look inside & check the contents. "The Lion's Roar" is in volume 4 of his collected works. This also applies to books with regard Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as there is also a collected set of his writings..

The Lion’s Roar:An Introduction to Tantra by Chogyam TrungpaAmazon.com review:Nine Yana (path) system of classification of Buddhist TeachingsWithin Buddhism of Tibet we encounter a whole range of complete transmissions of Buddhist teachings, a complete set “from top to bottom”. That very “set” is so complete that various parts if compared can be thought to be in conflict!Actually there was and still is a persistent discussion on how one could integrate these so called paths into one’s understanding and practice. The So called Hinayana, Mahayana and the Vajrayana, all have to work in that short moment you call life and all too often that even sorter moment we call application of Buddhist teachings, practice.In this book this very traditional to Nyinma and Kagyu framework is explained one by one and in relation to one another, with a brilliant paragraph titled: “The Crazy Wisdom Holder and the Student”, it places student – teacher connection on the path.The book is based on the two teaching seminars and includes live question answer that are quite unfailingly good.Cover is of a painting by the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa of Guru Rinpoche the Padmasambhava encountered in a vision

Deep and wonderful teaching