The Copper-Colored Mountain

“I am very encouraged that, even in this day and age, not only is the name “Copper-Colored Mountain” still uttered, but Professor Halkias and Christina Partsalaki have now put great effort into presenting a wide range of explanations of its meaning… . I am confident that just mentioning the name “Copper-Colored Mountain” will plant the seed of actually experiencing it, if not now, then definitely in the future.”—from the foreword by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse “I’m delighted to see Padmasambhava’s Pure Land presented in Georgios T. Halkias and Christina Partsalaki’s book with academic rigor, philosophical acumen, and reverence for this sacred topic. It is a fine example of the compatibility of intellectual objectivity and spiritual insight, as it sheds a clear light on the depth of Mahayana Buddhist concepts of pure lands in general and the Copper-Colored Mountain in particular.”—B. Alan Wallace, founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies“The authors are sensitive in their reading of the verses, balancing a scholarly perspective with an interpretative angle that explicates the significance of each stanza for contemplative practice.”—Buddhadharma

Georgios T. Halkias is associate professor at The University of Hong Kong and author of Luminous Bliss- A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet.

Christina Partsalki has an MPhil from the University of Hong Kong and is the author of “Heraclitus and the Buddha- Approaching Truth in Early Greek and Early Buddhist Thinking,” published in the Stoa of Sciences journal.

Jigme Lingpa was an eighteenth-century Tibetan treasure revealer of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Translations of his works into English have been published on the topics of Dzogchen nature of mind teachings, Vajrayana preliminary practices of ngondro, and the complete Nyingma path.

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