"This work is breathtaking, indispensable for anyone who wants to know what is possible for human beings to do with their lives in this astonishing day and age. Words fail to convey my admiration for the authors and the work, and my confidence in the boon of clarity and delight it grants its thoughtful readers.”

– Robert A. F. Thurman, Professor Emeritus of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University

“Wow! This is the most comprehensive and inclusive text on the practice of Tibetan Vajrayana. Vast tangles of tantric terminology and technique—as represented in diverse Tibetan traditions—are illuminated and clarified in this masterful work.”

– Guy Newland, Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University

"This distinctive and fundamental series of teachings, taught by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and assisted by Venerable Thubten Chodron, is a publishing triumph for our time.”

– Jan Willis, professor of religion, emerita, Wesleyan University

"The presentation of Vajrayana Buddhism demonstrates both its continuity with the broader Buddhist path and the distinctiveness of Tantric practice and the theory that underlies it. This library is now complete, and what a gift it is to the world!”

– Jay Garfield, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Buddhist Studies, Smith College and the Harvard Divinity School

“His Holiness explains Buddhist tantra like no one else. The mysteries of tantra are clarified for all to comprehend, and are expressed as a path clearly accessible to those with the right qualification and right motivation.”

– Gavin Kilty, translator of Tsongkhapa’s Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages