The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018. — 193 p. Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice, organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College in 2015, was the first transcultural exhibition in America solely devoted to the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. The accompanying catalogue, written by Karen Lucic, traces the story of this important...
Translated by Artemus B. Engle. — The Tsadra Foundation Series. — Snow Lion, Boulder, 2016. — ISBN10: 1559394293; ISBN13: 978-1559394291. Foundational works of the Yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy. A complete translation of Asanga’s classic work on the distinguishing qualities of bodhisattvas that describes how to awaken, develop, and perfect the mind of enlightenment in...
2nd edition. — Brill, 2007. — 256 p. The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan) is a philosophical and meditative teaching. Its inception is attributed to Vairocana, one of the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks ordained at Samye in the eight century A.D. The doctrine is regarded among Buddhists as the core of the teachings adhered to by the Nyingmapa school whilst similarly...
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2001. — 579 P. "The real history of man is the history of religion." The truth of the famous dictum of Max Muller, the father of the History of Religions, is nowhere so obvious as in Tibet. Western students have observed that religion and magic pervade not only the forms of Tibetan art, politics, and society, but also every detail of...
Shambhala Publications, 2004. — 550 p. Master of meditation, artist, poet, social visionary - Chögyam Trungpa was all these and more. Yet "Who was Chögyam Trungpa?" is a slippery question, for who can nail down the personality of a man who by all accounts seemed to be a different person to different people at different times and on different occasions? Fabrice Midal, by...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 276 p. This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion. Resulting from a meeting between the Dalai Lama, leading Western scholars, and...
Wisdom Publications, 2001. — 192 p. What is tantra? Who is qualified to practice it? How should it be practiced? What are the results? According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve profound and lasting happiness. And according to the tantric teachings of Buddhism, this remarkable transformation can be realized very quickly if we utilize all aspects of...
Wisdom Publications, 2014. — 192 p. What is tantra? Who is qualified to practice it? How should it be practiced? What are the results? According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve profound and lasting happiness. And according to the tantric teachings of Buddhism, this remarkable transformation can be realized very quickly if we utilize all aspects of...
A Dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy — Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, May 2011. — 726 p. This dissertation is an historical study of Tibetan Buddhists generally referred to as “madmen” (smyon pa), whose “madness” carries a positive valuation more often than a...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 368 p. Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege. They became known far and wide as "madmen" ( smyon p a, pronounced nyönpa ),...
Revised Edition — Snow Lion Publications, 2007. — 592 p. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available to date, covering a wide range of topics, including history, doctrines, meditation, practices, schools, religious festivals, and major figures. The revised edition contains expanded discussions of recent Tibetan history and tantra...
2nd edition. — 2017. — 348 p. — ISBN13: 978-1543080896. Following over 25 years of travel and original research by the author throughout the whole Amdo region of north-east Tibet, this book details in English and Tibetan the location, name, size and sect of 1,312 monasteries and hermitages, gives precise information on how to locate these religious establishments, presents...
2nd edition. — 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-1541275317. Following over 25 years of travel and original research by the author throughout the whole Amdo region of north-east Tibet, this book details in English and Tibetan the location, name, size and sect of 1,312 monasteries and hermitages, gives precise information on how to locate these religious establishments, presents...
Inner Traditions, 2002. — 200 p. The first book to explore the significance and symbolism of the sacred and secular ritual dances of Tibetan Buddhism. • Lavishly illustrated with color and rare historic photographs depicting the dances, costumes, and masks. • Looks at both sacred (cham) and folk (achi lhamo) forms and their role in the development, practice, and culture of...
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. — 789 p. This major work provides a virtually complete resource base for the academic study of Tibetan social, political, and religious history, including the development of our understanding of the reality behind the colourful images of Tibet as 'Shangri-La'. This work will thus be of particular interest to libraries, and to lecturers, students...
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. — 717 p. This major work provides a virtually complete resource base for the academic study of Tibetan social, political, and religious history, including the development of our understanding of the reality behind the colourful images of Tibet as 'Shangri-La'. This work will thus be of particular interest to libraries, and to lecturers, students...
Book Faith India, 1996. — 572 p. To protect the Buddhist religion and its institutions against adversaries, as well as to preserve the integrity of its teachings is a task assigned, in accordance with precepts common to the various sects of Tibetan Buddhism, to an important group of deities, best known under the name dharmapalas and dvarpalas. Yet the iconography of the deities...
Wisdom Publications, 2015. — 144 p. — (Wisdom Advanced Book - Blue Series). — ISBN10: 0861710479. — ISBN13: 978-0861710478. In this fascinating study, Dagyab Rinpoche not only explains the nine best-known groups of Tibetan Buddhist symbols but also shows how they serve as bridges between our inner and outer worlds. As such, they can be used to point the way to ultimate reality...