Dynamics of Time and Space: Transcending Limits on Knowledge

by Tarthang Tulku

Through careful analysis, fearless speculation, and creative imagination, we can awaken our natural affinity for knowledge. We can enter a magical universe where the future is now, the impossible is always available, and one point is all points. This book reveals space as the source of appearance and offers the dynamic of time as the hidden source of meaning. With images and ideas of startling originality and inspiring beauty, it challenges our persistent attempts to be the owners of knowledge, and invites us instead to join in the play of knowledge that informs all appearance. When we engage this potential, we can build a bridge to the other side of reality, beyond concepts and constructs - our long forgotten home.

Genres: Buddhism

284 pages, Paperback

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.