Origins of Tibetan Buddhism
The Buddha's teaching career
Some important Buddhist doctrines
The role of meditation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
Stabilizing and analytical meditation
The place of the Tantras in Buddhist literature
Tantra as a branch of Mahayana
Entering Tantric practice
The four classes of Tantra
The preliminary practices
Death and dying in Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan religious history
Tibet: geography and environment
The early history of Tibet
The period of the religious kings
The second dissemination of Buddhism
Mongol influence and Sakya supremacy
The Gelukpa ascent to power
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
The fourteenth Dalai Lama
The fourteenth Dalai Lama assumes power
The Chinese occupation of Tibet
Similarities and differences
The nonsectarian movement
