Books about Tibetan Buddhism are not the fullest experience

We Need Tashi Lhungpo Monastery: Tibetan Buddhism depends on Oral transmission to make sure a student has "heard" something correctly, applied this instruction to meditation experience correctly and thus has gotten the precise result of enlightenment. If enlightenment were a general non-specific experience, well then, it would not elude so many of us. So, a teacher watches a student...listens to how the meditation is going, watches to see if behavior becomes more peaceful while Not being repressed. To see if Joy is possible and emerges from a way of being that is entirely consistent with The Four Noble Truths and Bodhichitta (the matured love and compassion.) This ORAL aspect involves living beings interacting with living beings. This is what happens in the monastery. Many highly realized woman and men teach only after their own teacher sees they will 1. do no harm 2.have authentic experience 3. have really pure and good motivation 4. can remain kind and stable. Can Western people learn this? Well, of course. However, meditation is so "outside" culture and unsupported by our culture as of yet, that teachers Must be trained in all aspects of enlightenment within Tibetan Buddhist culture as of yet to Make Absolutely Sure not a single teaching is changed or altered. If someone begins to tell you how to put together a recipe incorrectly, you will not get the right result. If someone makes up their own version of what compassion is....you will mistake enlightenment for something else....and eventually this very precise way of reaching enlightenment will be gone. Thus, Tashi Lhungpo Must be nourished to insure teachers can continue the cultural vessel to hold the pure waters of the teachings until the Western cultural vessel is prepared perfectly to hold the accuracy....so enlightenment in this tradition remains available for those who open to it.