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Establishing Appearances as Divine
By: Heidi I. Koppl
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Esoteric Tibetan Buddhist scriptures teach practitioners to visualize themselves as deities residing within a mandala. By doing so, they assert, the practitioner will eventually become the deity itself. But are sentient beings intrinsically pure, or does visualization practice and contemplation of the deity qualities make them pure? In this eleventh-century commentary, the renowned Nyingma (Ancient School) scholar Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo sets out his analysis of the nature of purity. This penetrating study, directed towards scholars and serious practitioners, contains Koppl's English-language translation of Rongzom's original text and her explication of his views.
Koppl's incisive analysis offers a description of Rongzom's career and works and gives special attention to his critique of Madhyamaka philosophy, comparing his position to the work of his Nyingma successors. Some of Rongzom's approaches, Koppl shows, are unconventional even in a Nyingma context.
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Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa
Chogyam Trungpa and Carolyn Rose Gimian
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Here is an inspiring collection of short teachings from Chögyam Trungpa, the renowned Buddhist teacher and best-selling author. Drawn from published and unpublished sources, the short teachings presented here offer pithy, immediate, and wonderfully useful wisdom that can be applied to anyone’s life. The selections touch on a broad range of topics, including fear, confidence, passion, realization of our true nature, helping others, and everyday life as a spiritual path. Ocean of Dharma offers powerful daily reminders and refreshers for the many readers of Chögyam Trungpa’s previous books, and it also serves as an accessible introduction to his teachings for those not yet familiar with them.
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Science of Healing: A Comprehensive Commentary on the Root Tantra and Diagnostic Techniques of Tibetan Medicine
By: Dr. Tenzing Dakpa
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Science of Healing is one of the most comprehensive Tibetan medical guides to diagnosis by pulse and urine examination ever to appear in English. The twelve subjects of secondary examination focusing on such areas as the eyes, ears, and blood are also explored. For further insight, Dr. Dakpa includes “Tibetan Medicine and the BDORT” (Bi-Digital O-Ring Test), a talk he gave at the Sixteenth International Symposium on Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics at Columbia University. Dr. Dakpa offers a highly informative look into the diagnostic techniques of Tibetan medicine. While working as an assistant-cum-translator to Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, the former physician of H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama, Dr. Dakpa began to study Dhonden’s patients and he quickly developed a fervent interest in Tibetan medicine. Soon after, he attended Men-Tsee-Khang, The Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute of H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama. Dr. Dakpa’s experience aptly qualifies. Whether you’re a physician interested in learning more about diagnosis through pulse and urine examination or a patient interested in alternative medicine, Science of Healing is an all-inclusive guide to understanding the symbolism, history, and modern-day applicability of Tibetan medicine.
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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind With Pema Chodron (Audio CD)
By: Pema Chodron
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When it comes to meditation, Pema Chodron is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost teachers. Yet she's never offered an introductory course on audio --until now. On How to Meditate with Pema Chodron, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and bestselling author presents her first complete spoken-word course for those new to meditation.
Through five CDs of traditional insights and her personal guidance in 12 sitting sessions, Pema Chodron will help you honestly meet and compassionately relate with your mind as you explore:
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Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
By: John Powers
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Lucid and economical, the Concise Introduction delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey. For many years, Powers' nearly six hundred-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive introductory text on Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. Now Powers has responded to requests to provide an introductory text in compact form. This slimmed-down reference explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of meditation and tantra in an engaging manner. A survey of the four main sects of Tibetan Buddhism and a succinct history of the Tibetan cultural region complete this work.
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In Praise of Dharmadhatu
By: Nagarjuna & Third Karmapa
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This book is primarily about buddha nature--called dharmadhatu
here--the potential in all living beings to awaken to their mind's
primordial true nature, thus freeing themselves and others from
suffering. The great Buddhist master Na-ga-rjuna shows how buddha
nature exists in all beings, is temporarily obscured, and can be
revealed in its full bloom. The emphasis is on the actual experience of
mind's vivid wakefulness.
The themes of this text are brought to
a deeper level by the inclusion of a translation of its earliest, most
extensive commentary by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339).
His distinct positions on buddha nature and the transformation of
consciousness into enlightened wisdom also serve as the fundamental
view for the entire vajrayana as understood and practiced in the Kagyu
tradition to the present day.
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Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for Connecting with Others
By: Jeffrey Hopkins
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The Dalai Lama often says, "Kindness is society." His former translator, Jeffrey Hopkins, writes that by learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his personal journey to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and learning to project that love into the world around us.
Delivering a potent message with the power to change our relationships and improve the quality of our lives, A Truthful Heart, is the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal--and even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from anger and hurt, or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us, will welcome this timely vision for humanity.
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When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet
By: Hildegard Diemberger
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In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, known in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt Female Pig. After suffering a great personal tragedy, Chokyi Dronma renounced her royal status to become a nun, and, in turn, the tantric consort of three outstanding religious masters of her era. After her death, some of Chokyi Dronma's masters and disciples recognized a young girl as her incarnation, the first in a long line of powerful and influential female reincarnations. Today, the twelfth Samding Dorje Phagmo leads the Samding Monastery and is a high government cadre in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
This volume centers on the translation of the first biography of Chokyi Dronma recorded by her disciples in the wake of her death. The text reveals an extraordinary phenomenon: although it had been believed that women in Tibet were not allowed to obtain full ordination equivalent to monks, Chokyi Dronma not only persuaded one of the highest spiritual teachers of her era to give her full ordination, but she also established orders for other women practitioners and became so revered that she was officially recognized as one of two principal spiritual heirs to her main master.
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History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm Before the Storm: 1951-1955
By: Goldstein, Melvyn C.
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It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened–and why–during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C. Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material, including never before seen documents, and extensive interviews with Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and with Chinese officials. Goldstein furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy.
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Jigsaw Puzzle: Chenrezig
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Connections Puzzles are beautiful and unique jigsaw puzzles that combine the holistic exercise of piecing a puzzle together with the power of healing images. This 513 piece jigsaw puzzle features the White Tara by artist Pieter Weltevrede. A female Buddha, she is most associated with practices to lengthen one's life span and overcome life threatening hindrances. This puzzle is great for cancer patients. This puzzle measures 15x21 when finished. Made in the USA with the highest quality standards. Thick pieces, tightly cut, easily framable as a fine piece of art when complete.
Jigsaw Puzzle, 15x21, 513 Pieces.
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Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's "100 Questions"
By: Edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille
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The land of Tibet--its people, culture, and religion--has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's "peaceful liberation" of the land of snows led to the Lhasa uprising and the Dalai Lama's escape to India. Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's "100 Questions" offers clear and unbiased responses to a booklet published by the Chinese government in 1989, which sought to counter the criticism generated by the Dalai Lama and his followers and offer the PRC's "truth" about Tibet and Tibetans. In Authenticating Tibet, international Tibet scholars provide historically accurate answers to 100 Questions and deal evenhandedly with both China's "truth" about Tibet and that of the Dalai Lama and his followers. Designed for use by a general audience, the book is an accessible reference, free of the polemics that commonly surround the Tibet question. Although these experts refute many of the points asserted by China, they do not offer blanket endorsements for the claims made by the pro-Tibet movement. Instead, they provide an accurate, historically based assessment of Tibet's past and its troubled present.
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Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path
By: Guy Newland
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Readers are hard-pressed to find books that can help them understand the central concept in Mahayana Buddhism--the idea that ultimate reality is "emptiness." In clear language, Introduction to Emptiness explains that emptiness is not a mystical sort of "nothingness," but a specific truth that can and must be understood through calm and careful reflection.
Newland's contemporary examples and vivid anecdotes will be helpful to students trying to understand one of the great classic texts of the Tibetan tradition, Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise.
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Amitabha Sadhana, DVD
By: Lama Kathy Wesley
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One introductory/instructional talk and one practice session (with audio and on-screen text) on one DVD.
On this DVD is a 75 minute talk by Lama Kathy Wesley in which she both introduces the Amitabha Sadhana and provides instructions for practicing the sadhana. This disk concludes with a complete Amitabha Sadhana practice session. The audio recording of the practice session plays while the words of the sadhana scroll by on full screen so that viewers can use the recorded session as a guide for their own practice. In the Karma Kagyu tradition, the Amitabha Sadhana is practiced in conjuntion with the Chenrezik Sadhana. This DVD and a similar DVD of Lama Kathy Wesley introducing and instructing on the Chenrezik Sadhana form an ideal pair for learning both practices. In addition, for those desiring a more extensive teaching on the Chenrezik practice, foru additional talks (over seven hours of video on two DVD’s) are available. In these four talks Lama Kathy elaborates at length on the Chenrezik practice and places it in the larger context of quiet sitting meditation and compassion practice. The talks are titled Cultivating the Compassionate Heart: The Practice of Chenrezik. These three teachings together provide excellent instruction for students practicing the combined Chenrezik/Amitabha Sadhana.
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White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava
Jamgon Mipham
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White Lotus is a profound commentary on a famous prayer that is practiced daily by many Tibetan Buddhists. The Seven-Line Prayer is said to contain the most sacred and important teachings of Dzogchen. This commentary provides an explication of the meaning of this sacred verse on many levels—the student’s understanding of those meanings ripens and deepens with study and contemplation. The commentary’s author, Jamgön Mipham, is a celebrated nineteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar who was known for his prolific, lucid, and original writings on many subjects, including science, medicine, and philosophy—in addition to Buddhist practice and theory. Because of Mipham’s brilliance and comprehensive approach, his writings are still pertinent and popularly read today. His translated works are eagerly anticipated by English-language readers.
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Practices of Tranquility and Insight, DVD
By: Lama Yeshe Gyamtso
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These talks are based on the Kagyu Lineage Prayer which presents the entire path of practice in the Kagyu lineage. This prayer was composed by Jampel Sangpo, a disciple of the 6th Karmapa, who became a guru of the 7th Karmapa after attaining realization through persevering in the practice of Mahamudra. Lama Yeshe’s teaching emphasizes the third and fourth stanzas relating to tranquility and insight meditation. Lama Yeshe Gyamtso’s talks include detailed practice instructions on several meditation techniques.
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Nectar of Manjushri's Speech: A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva
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The Bodhicharyavatara,or Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva, has occupied an important place in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition almost from its inception. One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, it describes the path of the bodhisattvas, those who vow to become enlightened in order to help all beings awaken into the state of freedom and fulfillment. It is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment through generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience.
Patrul Rinpoche, the celebrated nineteenth-century master and author of The Words of My Perfect Teacher, devoted his whole life to the practice and teachings of the Bodhicharyavatara. Although he never composed an extensive commentary on this great work, it is said that, when traveling all over the east of Tibet, he expounded it more than one hundred times, sometimes in detailed courses lasting many months. Kunzang Pelden spent most of his early life with Patrul Rinpoche and was one of his close disciples. This commentary is a compilation of the extensive notes he took during a six-month teaching given by Patrul Rinpoche at Dzogchen Monastery. It is thanks to Kunzang Pelden's labors that Patrul Rinpoche's teachings on the Bodhicharyavatara have been preserved. It could perhaps be said that The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech is the commentary that Patrul Rinpoche so often presented to students, but never actually wrote.
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Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
By: Jack Kornfield
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You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism’s transformational psychology ever published in the West.
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Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama
Pico Iyer
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One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father’s) for the last three decades—an ongoing exploration of his message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama’s position: though he has brought the ideas of Tibet to world attention, Tibet itself is being remade as a Chinese province; though he was born in one of the remotest, least developed places on earth, he has become a champion of globalism and technology. He is a religious leader who warns against being needlessly distracted by religion; a Tibetan head of state who suggests that exile from Tibet can be an opportunity; an incarnation of a Tibetan god who stresses his everyday humanity.
Moving from Dharamsala, India—the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile—to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West, where the Dalai Lama’s pragmatism, rigor, and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a global icon.
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Kagyu Monlam Book: A Compilation for Recitation, Composed by the Glorious Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje
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Like the light of the sun, moon, and stars, may love,
compassion, and wisdom shine forth. May they strike every single living being
and dispel the darkness of ignorance, attachment, and hatred that has lurked
for ages in their being. When any living being meets with another, may it be
like the reunion of a mother and child who have long been separated. In a
harmonious world such as this, may I see everyone sleep peacefully to the music
of nonviolence. This is my dream.
--- From the Foreword
by Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje
The Kagyu Monlam Book: A Compilation for Recitation, Composed by H.H. 17th Karmapa, for the annual monlam in Bodhgaya, India. A rich source of Tibetan Buddhist prayers, with the Tibetan, English and transliteration, Spiral Bound, 288 Pages.
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Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge
By: Vic Mansfield
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In a clear and engaging way, this book shows how the principle of emptiness, the philosophic heart of Tibetan Buddhism, connects intimately to quantum nonlocality and other foundational features of quantum mechanics. Detailed connections between emptiness, modern relativity, and the nature of time are also explored. For Tibetan Buddhists, the profound interconnectedness implied by emptiness demands the practice of universal compassion. Because of the powerful connections between emptiness and modern physics, the book argues that the interconnected worldview of modern physics also encourages universal compassion. Along with these harmonies, the book explores a significant conflict between quantum mechanics and Tibetan Buddhism concerning the role of causality.
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Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: The Buddhist Path Through Divorce
By: Gabriel Cohen
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Buddhism has been applied to everything from parenting to golf, but until now no one has offered Buddhist principles as a healing path through divorce. In Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky, Gabriel Cohen bravely delves into his personal experience-along with insights from Buddhist masters, parables, humor, social science studies, and interviews with other divorcés-to provide a practical and very helpful guide to surviving the pain of any break-up. Focusing on the emotions most common in the dissolution of a relationship-anger, resentment, loss, and grief-Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky shows how thinking about these feelings in surprisingly different ways can lead to a radically better experience. This compulsively readable book offers sound advice and much-needed empathy for anyone dealing with a break-up.
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Jigsaw Puzzle: Buddha of Compassion Quan Jin
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Connections Puzzles are beautiful and unique jigsaw puzzles that combine the holistic exercise of piecing a puzzle together with the power of healing images. This 513 piece jigsaw puzzle features Quan Yin, known as the Buddha of mercy and compassion by artist Paul Heussenstamm. Quan Yin itself means "observing the cries of the world". This puzzle measures 15x21 when finished. Made in the USA with the highest quality standards. Thick pieces, tightly cut, easily framable as a fine piece of art when complete.
Jigsaw Puzzle. 15x21, 513 Piece
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Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
By: Charlene E. Makley
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This wide-ranging, keenly observed study provides a groundbreaking account of the highly contested process through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang became incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Drawing from thirteen years of archival research and fieldwork in and around the famous Geluk sect Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Charlene Makley situates the process of incorporation in the violent upheavals of Maoist socialist transformation that took place from 1950 through the 1970s and in the transition to globalization via Deng Xiaoping's capitalist market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Synthesizing social theory drawn from anthropology, political economy, gender studies, and linguistic anthropology, she finds that incorporation had quite different effects for Tibetan men and women, creating painful dilemmas across generations. Her study provides a sensitive and controversial examination of many different Tibetan voices and opens a new perspective on Sino-Tibetan relations in this important frontier region.
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Stairway to Nirvana: A Study of the Twenty Samghas Based on the Works of Tsong kha pa
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James B. Apple examines one of the formative subjects in traditional Buddhist studies, the Twenty Varieties of the Samgha. The Samgha (community) is one of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Samgha) universally revered by all Buddhists. While the Samgha is generally understood as the community of Buddhist ordained monks and nuns, along with lay adherents, the Twenty
Varieties of the Samgha concerns an exemplary community of the twenty types of Noble Beings (arya-pudgala) who embody the Buddha’s teachings. Focusing on the interpretation of the Samgha given by the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar Tsong kha pa, Apple provides a comprehensive typology and analysis of the stages through which Noble Beings pass in their progress toward enlightenment through multiple lifetimes in various cosmological realms. He explains the cosmographic formations and complex structures of Buddhist spiritual cultivation, illustrating how Tibetan and Indian Buddhists conceptualize all possible states on the path to enlightenment.
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Jigsaw Puzzle: White Tara
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Connections Puzzles are beautiful and unique jigsaw puzzles that combine the holistic exercise of piecing a puzzle together with the power of healing images. This 513 piece jigsaw puzzle features the White Tara by artist Pieter Weltevrede. A female Buddha, she is most associated with practices to lengthen one's life span and overcome life threatening hindrances. This puzzle is great for cancer patients. This puzzle measures 15x21 when finished. Made in the USA with the highest quality standards. Thick pieces, tightly cut, easily framable as a fine piece of art when complete.
Jigsaw Puzzle, 15x21, 513 Pieces.
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Tsong-Kha-Pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom
By: Jeffrey Hopkins
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In fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Tibet there was great ferment about what makes enlightenment possible, since systems of self-liberation must show what factors preexist in the mind that allow for transformation into a state of freedom from suffering. This controversy about the nature of mind, which persists to the present day, raises many questions.
This book first presents the final exposition of special insight by Tsong-kha-pa, the founder of the Ge-luk-pa order of Tibetan Buddhism, in his Medium-Length Exposition of the Stages of the Path, as well as the sections on the object of negation and on the two truths in his Illumination of the Thought: Extensive Explanation of (Chandrakirti's) "Supplement to (Nagarjuna's) ‘Treatise on the Middle."' It then details the views of his predecessor Dol-po-pa Shay-rap Gyel-tsen, the seminal author of philosophical treatises of the Jo-nang-pa order, as found in his Mountain Doctrine, followed by an analysis of Tsong-kha-pa's reactions. By contrasting the two systems- Dol-po-pa's doctrine of other-emptiness and Tsong-kha-pa's doctrine of self-emptiness- both views emerge more clearly, contributing to a fuller picture of reality as viewed in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self
By: Anne C. Klein
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Despite barriers of language and culture, Buddhism and contemporary feminism have much to say to each other. Both appeared on the Western intellectual scene at about the same time, both focus on self and identity, and both are dedicated to the fruitful interaction of theory and experience in regard to those questions. The ritual of the Great Bliss Queen, an important Buddhist figure of enlightenment, unifies the book, modeling practices that can help us to be both at one with ourselves and open to engagement with others.
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Treasury of Knowledge: Book Eight, Part 4: Esoteric Instructions
By: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
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This volume, Esoteric Instructions, deals with meditation, specifically tantric meditation. Esoteric Instructions
is a collection of intimate records of personal teachings by masters,
that simplify tantric meditations by providing pertinent examples and
very personal and helpful hints to disciples based on the master's own
experience. Although originally oral in nature, they have been codified
and passed down through specific lineages from teacher to student.
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Quintessence of the Union of Mahamudra and Dzokchen
By: Karma Chakme and Commentary by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
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"The Quintessence of the Union of Mahamudra and Dzokchen presents in a very concise and inclusive way all that an individual actually needs to practice in order to attain awakening. This style of presentation, in its brevity and directness, is appropriate for the present time because our mental afflictions are strong and life is short. We do not have time to waste." Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
The text, which is composed of eight songs, presents the quintessence of both mahamudra and dzokchen while celebrating their fundamental unity. Written in Karma Chakme's unique style of extreme simplicity and great profundity, it makes what is normally difficult to understand very easy and straightforward.
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Tara’s Enlightened Activity
By: Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal
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Tara is an object of devotional worship and meditative practice for Tibetan Buddhists everywhere. Tara clears away fears, overpowers negative emotions, and enables all beings to reach enlightenment. As she has vowed to take rebirth as a female throughout infinite lifetimes, Tara also has special resonance as a source of female spiritual wisdom. Tibetans of all schools and traditions recite the verses on which this commentary is based.
Sought-after teachers throughout the West for over twenty-five years, the authors illuminate the practice of the Praises to the Twenty-one Taras with humor and wisdom, making the material accessible not only to Buddhist practitioners, but also to a general audience and those specifically interested in female manifestations of the divine.
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Treasury of Knowledge: Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy
By: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
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In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgon Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as it was preserved in Tibet.
This volume, Framework of Buddhist Philosophy, is his masterful survey of the broad themes and subtle philosophical points found in more than fiftenn hundred years of Buddhist writings. In a clear and systematic manner, he sets out the traditional framework of Buddhism's three vehicles and four philosophical systems and provides an overview of the key points of each system. His syncretic approach, which emphasizes the strengths of each of the systems and incorporates them into a comprehensive picture of philosophical endeavor, is well-suited for scholar-practitioners, who seek awakening through the combiantion of analytical inquiry and meditation.
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Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chogyam Trungpa
By: Jeremy Hayward
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A fascinating portrait of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, one of the most charismatic, controversial, and visionary spiritual teachers of all time, this book is also an inspiring, heart-warming, and often humorous account of the author's own path of transformation from skeptic to mature spiritual practitioner. What's more, Warrior-King of Shambhala is a splendid presentation of the teachings and experiences that have become the heart of the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.
A pioneer in introducing Tibetan Buddhism to the West, Chogyam Trungpa is also one of its most controversial figures: he often defied notions of how a holy man should act, and his unconventional behavior and "crazy wisdom" caused some to view him with suspicion. But he was above all known for his compassion, insight, and vision and was immediately recognized as a living Buddha by a generation of spiritual seekers.
One of those seekers was Jeremy Hay |
