Buddha's lions= Caturasiti-siddha-pravrtti by Abhayadatta. — Translated into Tibetan as Grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi 'i lo rgyus by sMon-grub Shes-rah. — Translated into English by James B. Robinson. — Berkeley, Dharma Publishing, 1971. — 426 p. — (Tibetan translation series; 10). Includes facsimile reproduction of the Tibetan text. The illustrations of the siddhas which...
Explanation of Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition followed by Pawo Rinpoche’s Commentary on the Knowledge Section of Shantideva’s The Entrance to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryavatara) — Snow Lion, 2004. — 984 p. Madhyamaka is a potent and universally accessible means of calming our suffering and awakening to our innate wisdom. The Center of the Sunlit Sky artfully...
North Atlantic Books, 2013. — 280 p. — ISBN: 1583945563. Tibetan Yoga of Movement introduces the method of Yantra Yoga, a traditional Tibetan form that is one of the oldest recorded systems of yoga in the world. Derived from an eighth-century Tibetan Buddhist text, Yantra Yoga includes many positions similar to those of Hatha Yoga in form, but different in the dynamics of the...
North Atlantic Books, 2013. — 280 p. — ISBN: 1583945563. Tibetan Yoga of Movement introduces the method of Yantra Yoga, a traditional Tibetan form that is one of the oldest recorded systems of yoga in the world. Derived from an eighth-century Tibetan Buddhist text, Yantra Yoga includes many positions similar to those of Hatha Yoga in form, but different in the dynamics of the...
Two lecture series given in Boulder, Colo. 1970–71. — Foreword by Sakyong Mipham. Edited by John Baker and Marvin Casper. Illustrated by Glen Eddy. — Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2010. The first volume of Chögyam Trungpa’s teaching in America is still fresh, outrageous, and up to date. It describes landmarks on the Buddhist path and focuses on the pitfalls of...
Two lecture series given in Boulder, Colo. 1970–71. — Foreword by Sakyong Mipham. Edited by John Baker and Marvin Casper. Illustrated by Glen Eddy. — Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2002. — 251 p. The first volume of Chögyam Trungpa’s teaching in America is still fresh, outrageous, and up to date. It describes landmarks on the Buddhist path and focuses on the pitfalls...
Boston & London: Shambhala, 1987. — [Based on the edition: Chogyam Trungpa. Glimpses of Abhidharma. From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology (1975). — Boulder: Prajna Press, 1978.] — 106 p. The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigate the workings of the mind and the states of human consciousness. In this book, Chögyam Trungpa shows how an examination of...
40th Anniversary Edition. With a new afterword by Samuel Bercholz. — Shambhala Publications, Boston & London, 2010. Using the life of the Buddha as a starting point, this classic on meditation and the practice of compassion explores the six paramitas, or enlightened actions on the Buddhist path. Its simplicity and directness make this an appealing book for beginners and...
40th Anniversary Edition. With a new afterword by Samuel Bercholz. — Shambhala Publications, Boston & London, 2010. Using the life of the Buddha as a starting point, this classic on meditation and the practice of compassion explores the six paramitas, or enlightened actions on the Buddhist path. Its simplicity and directness make this an appealing book for beginners and...
Edited by Judith L. Lief. — Boston & London: Shambhala, 2010. — 240 p. Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The renowned meditation master and artist Chögyam Trungpa called this type of art "dharma art"—any creative work that springs from an awakened state of mind, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression. Dharma art provides a vehicle to...
Edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian and Sherab Chödzin Kohn. — Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2011. — 274 p. Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money . We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they...
Edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian and Sherab Chödzin Kohn. — Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2011. — 274 p. Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money . We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they...
Snow Lion, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1611803594. This is the first book in a series presenting The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra. The other two books are Deity Yoga and Yoga Tantra. Tantra in Tibet consists of three parts published under the auspices of the Dalai Lama. "Essence of Tantra" by the Dalai Lama discusses tantra for practice, refuge, the three paths, greatness...
Snow Lion, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1611803600. This work opens with His Holiness the Dalai Lama presenting the key features of Yoga Tantra then continues with Tsongkhapa’s section of the main text focusing on this class of tantra. This is followed by an overview of the central practices of the five manifest enlightenments and the four seals written by Khaydrub Je (Khaydrub...
Snow Lion, 2016. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-1611803587. This revised work describes the profound process of meditation in Action (kriyā) and Performance (caryā) Tantras. Invaluable for anyone who is practicing or is interested in Buddhist tantra, this volume includes a lucid exposition of the meditative techniques of deity yoga from H.H. the Dalai Lama; the second and third chapters...
Sperling & Kupfer, 2012. — 138 p. — ISBN: 8820052768. Io stesso sono un religioso, ma la religione non può, da sola, fornire una risposta a tutti i nostri problemi." A dirlo, inaspettatamente, è il leader spirituale della sesta confessione al mondo, il buddismo. In questo libro il Dalai Lama lancia un messaggio rivoluzionario: per superare gli scontri fra religioni, le...
Riverhead books, New York, 10th Anniversary edition, 2009 - 731 p. The Handbook for living. The book is the 10th edition of His Holiness's Dalai Lama's work on happiness and compassion. It has been published in many languages worldwide. The book is organized in the form of an interview with his Holiness, the Dalai Lama with a new preface from the Dalai Lama and an introduction...
Varanasi: Kargyud Relief & Protection Committee, Central University of Tibetan Studies, 2018. — 783 p. Shanktiniketan University has compiled all the words mostly relevant to Buddhism in one book entitled "Basic Buddhist Terminology" and translated its Tibetan version into English and Hindi languages. After almost six years of long journey of hardships in compiling and...
Explained by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. — Translated from the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group. — Second Revised Edition (First Edition 2002). — New Delfi — Katmandu: Shechen Publications, 2004. — 104 p. This commentary on Padampa Sangye's classic verses of advise to Tibetan villagers of Tingri — by renowned and beloved meditation master Dilgo Khyentse — offers guidance...
Wisdom Publications, 1991. — 1584 p. Written by a great modern Nyingma master, Dudjom Rinpoche’s The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism covers in detail and depth both the fundamental teachings and the history of Tibetan Buddhism’s oldest school. This, the first English translation of His Holiness’ masterwork, constitutes the most complete work of its type in the West. An...
New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1996. — 260 p. Look into the mirror of your mind, Mahamudra, The mysterious home of the Qilkini. -Mahiisiddha Tilopa It began at a farmhouse in the lower Alps where I was staying with a Tibetan lama recently arrived from India. That evening I heard re- sounding from his room the slow rhythm of a haunting melody which he intoned in his rich bass...
Edited by Michael Kohn. Illustrated by Glen Eddy and Terris Temple. — Boston & London: Shambhala, 2011. (1st edition — 1975.) Jointly authored by Chögyam Trungpa and Buddhist scholar Herbert V. Guenther, this book presents an introduction to the Buddhist teachings of tantra. Herbert V Guenther, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the...
Shambhala Publications, 2001. — 112 p. Westerners wanting to know about tantra - particularly the Buddhist tantra of Tibet - have often had to work with speculation and fancy. In The Dawn of Tantra the reader meets a Tibetan meditation master and a Western scholar whose grasp of Buddhist tantra is real and unquestionable. In their collaboration - based on a seminar given in...
Washington: Pariyatti Publishing, 1987. — 159 p. Hart W., Gunka S.N. The art of living, Vipassana meditation according to S.N. Gunke (In English) The Search. The Starting Point. The Immediate Cause. The Root of the Problem. The Training of Moral Conduct. The Training of Concentration. The Training of Wisdom. Awareness and Equanimity. The Goal. The Art of Living. The Importance...
Translated by Geshe Ngawang and Jay Garfield. — Oxford University Press, 2006. — 632 p. Tsong khapa (14th-15th centuries) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. His Ocean of Reasoning is the most extensive and perhaps the deepest extant commentary on N=ag=arjuna's M?lamadhyamakak=arik=a (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way), and it can...
New York : Theatre Arts Books, 1982. — xxiv, 200 p. The prince, as heir to the throne, was provided with many opportunities to prepare himself to rule. Together with a friend, he practiced the mystical arts. They both developed the ability to transfer their minds to other bodies. His friend was deceitful and saw the possibility of taking power. Using the mind transfer method,...
3rd edition. — Snow Lion, 2011. — 160 p. In 1988, Gen Lamrimpa, a Tibetan monk, led a one-year retreat in the Pacific Northwest, during which a group of Western meditators devoted themselves to the practice of meditative quiescence (shamatha). This book is a record of the oral teachings he gave to this group at the outset of the retreat. The teachings are brought to life by Gen...
3rd edition. — Snow Lion, 2011. — 160 p. In 1988, Gen Lamrimpa, a Tibetan monk, led a one-year retreat in the Pacific Northwest, during which a group of Western meditators devoted themselves to the practice of meditative quiescence (shamatha). This book is a record of the oral teachings he gave to this group at the outset of the retreat. The teachings are brought to life by Gen...
3rd edition. — Snow Lion, 2011. — 160 p. In 1988, Gen Lamrimpa, a Tibetan monk, led a one-year retreat in the Pacific Northwest, during which a group of Western meditators devoted themselves to the practice of meditative quiescence (shamatha). This book is a record of the oral teachings he gave to this group at the outset of the retreat. The teachings are brought to life by Gen...
A Complete Explanation of Casting Out the Body As Food. — Snow Lion Publications; Tsadra Foundation, 2003. — 416 p. — ISBN: 1-55939-182-0. Translated and introduced by Sarah Harding. This is the very first sentence, after the homage, of the current text, Clarifying the Meaning of Chöd, A Complete Explanation of Casting Out the Body As Food, or Machik’s Complete Explanation....
Viking (India), 2004. — 294 p. — ISBN10: 0670058106, 13 978-0670058105. His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the remarkable exiled spiritual and temporal head of Tibet, is a statesman for our troubled times. This collection of 11 essays by scholars, writers, theologians, and others whose lives he has touched represents a broad spectrum of perspectives on this Nobel Peace Prize...
New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1997. — 165 p. Although it is complete in its own right and stands well on its own, this collection of short commentaries on the Six Yogas of Naropa, translated from the Tibetan, was originally conceived of as a companion reader to my Tsongkhapa's Six Yogas of Naropa (Snow Lion, 1996). That volume presents one of the greatest Tibetan treatises...
New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1996. — 229 p. Anyone who has read more than a few books on Tibetan Buddhism will have encountered a reference to the Naro Choe Druk (Tib. na ro'i chos drug), a phrase that renders literally as "Naro's Six Dharmas," but is more often encountered in English translation as "the Six Yogas of Naropa." These six-inner heat, illusory body, clear...
Boston: Wisdom Puplication, 1998. — 343 p. Gyatrul Rinpoche (Contributor), B. Alan Wallace (Translator). In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. The profound teachings in this book provide the understanding and instruction necessary to turn...
Ithaca, New York : Snow Lion Publications, 2008. — ix, 406 p. A Commentary on Vairocana’s The Union of the Sun and Moon Yantra. Translated from Tibetan, edited and annotated by Adriano Clemente. Yantra Yoga, the Buddhist parallel to the Hathayoga of the Hindu tradition, is a system of practice entailing bodily movements, breathing exercises and visualizations. Originally...
New Delhi: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1986 (1974). — 96 p. Revised Edition. Geshe Rabten explains the practices which form the very foundation of the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. You would be hard pressed to find a book with more to offer with respect to the most fundamental teachings and practices of Vajrayana. All of the Lam Rim points are clearly spelled out here,...
New Delhi: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1986 (1974). — 96 p. Revised Edition. Geshe Rabten explains the practices which form the very foundation of the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. You would be hard pressed to find a book with more to offer with respect to the most fundamental teachings and practices of Vajrayana. All of the Lam Rim points are clearly spelled out here,...
Boston ; London : Shambhala, 2013. — xv, 132 p. Why We Practice Breath Yoga Breath Is Life: The Physical and Elemental Workings of Breath Working with Breath and Neurotic Mind Understanding the Connection of Breath to Stress, Anxiety, and Depression How to Practice Breath Yoga Basic Wind Energy Techniques Meditating on Impermanence with Breath Awareness Unlocking Old Patterns...
Shambhala Publications, 2013. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8348-2917-6 Modern science and classic spiritual traditions agree: regulating the breath leads to radiance and wellness of body, mind, and spirit. With the simple teachings and cutting-edge research offered in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath, you can start thriving just by integrating breathwork into your daily practice.Basic...
Novato: Lotsawa, 1988. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0-932156-05-3. Illuminations is a translation of: Thub pa'i dgongs pa rab tu gsal ba of Sa-skya Pandi-ta Kun-dga' rgyal-mtshan, 1182-1251. It is a useful, down-to-earth guide for beginning the process of mental and spiritual development as taught and enacted by the historical Buddha Sakyamuni and succeeding masters of India, Tibet, and...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0195152999. The Himalayan Hermit is a biography of Orgyen Choky (1675-1729), with a translation of her autobiography, a stunning account of the suffering and spiritual life of an illiterate Tibetan woman turned Buddhist nun. Language: English. Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on...
Hampton Roads Publishing, 2017. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 157174780X, 13 978-1571747808. Mysticism is popularly understood as becoming one with God or the Absolute. Here in this inspirational book are the Dalai Lama's thoughts on: The nature and meaning of mysticism How we can live lives infused with mystical experience How mysticism can result in both personal and social chang.
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1996. — 173 p. ISBN: 81-85102-99-6 Language: English The "Overview of Buddhist Tantra" is a scholarly exposition of the framework of Tantric practice presented by its author, Panchen Sonam Dragpa (1478-1554), in a methodical and accessible manner. Detailed explanations within this book include: the historical emergence of Buddhism in our...
Tsadra Foundation, 2013. — 256 p. This book is a collection of the essential root texts, instructions, and manuals of all the eight practice lineages of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. This is the First translation entire collection into English, making the catalog of The Treasury of Precious Instructions available in English.
New Delhi, India, November, 1982. — 12 p. With kind permission of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala. From Second Dharma Celebration, November 5th-8th 1982, New Delhi, India. Translated by Alex Berzin, clarified by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, edited by Nicholas Ribush. First published by Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, New Delhi, 1982
HarperOne, 2010. — 387 p. In this elegant self-portrait, the world’s most outspoken and influential spiritual leader recounts his epic and engaging life story. The Dalai Lama’s most accessible and intimate book, My Spiritual Journey is an excellent introduction to the larger-than-life leader of Tibetan Buddhism — perfect for anyone curious about Eastern religion, invested in...
Snow Lion, 2012. — 224 p. When the Dalai Lama was forced to go into exile in 1959, his copy of Tsong-kha-pa's classic text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment was one of the few items that he could take with him. This text distills all of the essential points of Tibetan Buddhism, clearly unfolding the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment. In 2008,...
The Dalai Lama's explanation of Atisha's lamrim text: A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment . — Translator: Thubten Jinpa. — Thubten Dhargye Ling, 2002. — 214 p. About one thousand years ago, the great Indian pandit and yogi, Dipamkara Shrijnana (Atisha), was invited to Tibet to re-establish the Buddhadharma, which had been suppressed and corrupted for almost two centuries. One...
The Dalai Lama's explanation of madhyamaka using Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakalankara and Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path . — Wisdom Publications, 2009. — 200 p. The Dalai Lama lays out the Buddhist approach to matters of faith and devotion that is based on the highest spirit of critical inquiry. The Dalai Lama opens The Middle Way with an elegant argument for the...
Wisdom Publications, 1997 — 312 p. ISBN: 086171122X Language: English In all religions, sacred texts and objects have appeared miraculously. Among the most remarkable of these revelatory traditions is the terma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Termas herald a fresh opportunity for the renewal of spiritual practice. Here Tulku Thondup Rinpoche tells the story of the terma...
Series: Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Paperback: 608 p. Publisher: Wisdom Publications; 1st Wisdom Ed edition (November 2002). Language: English. ISBN10: 086171329X. ISBN13: 978-0861713295. Vajrayogini is a tantric goddess from the highest class of Buddhist tantras who manifests the ultimate development of wisdom and compassion. Her practice is prevalent today among...
3rd ed., Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995. - 301 p. — ISBN: 0-86171-032-0. This book contains seven fundamental Buddhist texts considered essential to Western students by Geshe Wangyal, who first brought Tibetan Buddhism to America. Ranging from early scriptural sources to meditation and visualization guides of Tibetan Buddhist practice, this is indispensible reading for those...
Ithaka: Snow Lion Publications, 1986. — 176 p. — ISBN: 0-937938-38-6. In 1955, a geshe from Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet arrived in the United States. He founded the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America and was to become one of the main forces in the newly developing awareness of Tibetan Buddhism in America. Geshe Wangyal's early students have in turn become...
FPMT Education, 2010 — 243 p. Buddhism in a Nutshell is an overview of the complete Buddhist path to enlightenment that combines the blessings and transformational teachings of Tibetan Buddhist masters Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche with the candidly refreshing perspective of Western teacher Venerable Amy Miller. It provides students with the information they need...
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