TY - BOOK AU - Yeshe, Panchen Losang AU - Toh,Szegee TI - The swift path: a meditation manual on the stages of the path to enlightenment T2 - Wisdom culture series SN - 9781614298250 AV - BQ5612 .B58 2023 PY - 2023///] KW - Meditation KW - Buddhism KW - Lam-rim KW - Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) KW - Doctrines KW - Spiritual life N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326) and index N2 - "Composed by Losang Yeshé around the turn of the seventeenth century, this text is a meditation manual on the lamrim, or "stages of the path to enlightenment." The author, commonly referred to as either the Fifth or Second Paṇchen Lama, depending on the convention for enumeration, formulated it as a supplement to the Easy Path (Delam) written by his immediate predecessor, Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen, who was tutor to the Fifth Dalai Lama. Carrying great significance in the genre of lamrim literature, it came to be recognized as part of a collection of texts known as the eight great lamrims"-- ER -