"It is Gen Lamrimpa's familiarity with meditation on a deep experiential level that makes his teachings so valuable and this a book to be recommended."—Ani Jutima, Tibetan Review
"How to Practice Shamatha Meditation provides very practical and experientially grounded teachings."—Joe B. Wilson, The Tibet Journal
Gen Lamrimpa, Ven. Jampal Tenzin (1934–2004), was a close disciple of H.H. the Dalai Lama. He lived in meditative solitude in the mountains high above Dharamsala, India, where he gained a reputation for his deep experience of the "stages of the path" practices. He was renowned as an accomplished practitioner of meditative stabilization and tummo (psychic heat) as well as other tantric meditations.
B. Alan Wallace has served as interpreter for many distinguished Tibetan lamas and has taught extensively in Europe and America. He is the author of The Attention Revolution and Minding Closely, and has edited, translated, authored, or contributed to more than thirty works on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, and culture, and the interface between science and religion.