About the Author

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche is a traditionally trained teacher and author in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in 1935 in Golok, eastern Tibet, Rinpoche studied with many of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. After leaving Tibet to exile in India, Tarthang Tulku taught from 1962 to 1968 at Sanskrit University in Varanasi where he also established one of the first printing presses to print sacred Tibetan texts. In 1968 he became the first lama of the Nyingma lineage to establish residence in the United States and immediately began creating a mandala of organizations to actualize his long-range vision of preserving the ancient teachings of the Buddha and transmitting them to the modern world. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including Gesture of Balance; Time, Space, and Knowledge-A New Vision of Reality; Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga; Skillful Means, Revelations of Mind, andCaring, and has supervised the translation and publication of important Buddhist texts.