Pingshi Xiao Books

Behind the Façade of Tantric Buddhism, a series of four volumes, explores the doctrines of the Secret Mantra Vehicle, also known as Tibetan Buddhism. In reality, Tantric Buddhism is wholly unrelated to Buddhism, given that its cultivation of Highest Yoga is nothing but the lustful practice of sexual union. Such a faith based on copulation contradicts the Buddha's discourses, violates morality and ethics, disturbs social order, and has wrecked the peace and harmony of countless families. In contrast, the Jonang School that emerged in Tibet propagated the doctrine of "other-emptiness," which allows followers to realize the Tathāgatagarbha and to directly comprehend how it generates all phenomena. As the Jonang School is the sole Tibetan lineage that teaches the Buddha Dharma, it stands as the only true Tibetan Buddhist tradition. This in-depth exposé illustrates the authentic Buddha Dharma and reveals the fallacies concealed behind the Buddhist veneer of Tantric Buddhism, hoping to guide the public onto the correct path to Buddhahood.

Buddha-mindfulness, buddhanusmrit in Sanskrit and nianfo in Chinese, is one of the most widely practiced Buddhist cultivation methods for enhancing meditative concentration and securing rebirth in Buddha's pure lands. This book elucidates five different levels of Buddha-mindfulness--from phenomena-based methods, such as recitation of Buddha's name, to Buddha-mindfulness in Ultimate Reality, a principle-based method. The author emphasizes that practitioners should adjust and fine-tune their techniques as their level of mental concentration deepens, so that they can eventually rely on this power to achieve awakening to the True Mind and gain direct comprehension of the Ultimate Reality.

Taken from five different Chinese books composed by the Venerable Xiao Pingshi, one of the most notable and prolific Buddhist teachers in the Chinese-speaking world, this book provides Western readers with distinctive samples of Master Xiao's incisive and illuminating views on subjects that are highly relevant yet often overlooked by today's Buddhist learners: A powerful Dharma-door of Buddha-mindfulness that can be practiced anytime anywhere; The proper steps and sequence of Dharma cultivation one should follow after achieving awakening to the True Mind; The inviolable rule that the personal realization of the essence of Buddhist enlightenment should never deviate from Buddha's sacred teachings; The deviation of Tibetan Lamaism's doctrines and practices from those of the Buddha Dharam; And lastly, the pervasive misunderstanding regarding the content of Chan awakening.