Severance: The Early Practice of Cho Vajrapani as well as the means

as well as the means to generate

Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

Author: Raoul Birnbaum

Khatas are traditional ceremonial offering scarves

Severance: The Early Practice of Cho Vajrapani as well as the meansSeverance, or Cho, is the Tibetan Buddhist practice of facing one's fears. In three remarkable texts lucidly translated and introduced by Sarah Harding, the thirteenth century Severance master Jamyang Gonpo shares advice that goes straight to the heart of both understanding and experiencing the practice. For hundreds of years, Severance has remained essentially an instruction on coping with stressful situations that provoke fear and, beyond that, a