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Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Familys Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
By: Yangzom Brauen

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"A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom
""Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she needed: a oneness with nature and a sense of the spiritual in all things. She married a monk, had two children, and lived in peace and prayer. But not for long. There was a saying in Tibet: "When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth." The Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 changed everything. When soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery, destroying everything in their path, Kunsang and her family fled across the Himalayas only to spend years in Indian refugee camps. She lost both her husband and her youngest child on that journey, but the future held an extraordinary turn of events that would forever change her life--the arrival in the refugee camps of a cultured young Swiss man long fascinated with Tibet. Martin Brauen will fall instantly in love with Kunsang's young daughter, Sonam, eventually winning her heart and hand, and taking mother and daughter with him to Switzerland, where Yangzom will be born.
Many stories lie hidden until the right person arrives to tell them. In rescuing the story of her now 90-year-old inspirational grandmother and her mother, Yangzom Brauen has given us a book full of love, courage, and triumph, as well as allowing us a rare and vivid glimpse of life in rural Tibet before the arrival of the Chinese. Most importantly, though, "ACROSS MANY MOUNTAINS" is a testament to three strong, determined women who are linked by an unbreakable family bond.

Ani-La: The Nuns from Redna Menling
By:J. van de Belt

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The Bon religion is often seen as a part of Tibetan Buddhism but its bond is actually far more complex and has its own origin in the history of Tibet. The role of women worshipping in Bon and in Tibetan Buddhism is quite different. And although there are studies on Buddhist nuns, there is hardly any research available on nuns in the Bon tradition. This pioneering study vividly portrays the nuns of the Redna Menling monastery in Dolanji (India), the headquarters of the Bon religion, in exile. It focuses on the developments of the Bon in exile, the specific context in which Bon nuns live and how the monastic tradition takes shape. It provides interesting insights into the monastic community in exile, the historic context of the Bon religion as well as the personal motives to become a nun.

Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition

Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition
By: Mark Siderits (Editor), Tom Tillemans (Editor), Arindam Chakrabarti (Editor)

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When we understand that something is a pot, is it because of one property that all pots share? This seems unlikely, but without this common essence, it is difficult to see how we could teach someone to use the word "pot" or to see something as a pot. The Buddhist apoha theory tries to resolve this dilemma, first, by rejecting properties such as "potness" and, then, by claiming that the element uniting all pots is their very difference from all non-pots. In other words, when we seek out a pot, we select an object that is not a non-pot, and we repeat this practice with all other items and expressions.

Writing from the vantage points of history, philosophy, and cognitive science, the contributors to this volume clarify the nominalist apoha theory and explore the relationship between apoha and the scientific study of human cognition. They engage throughout in a lively debate over the theory's legitimacy. Classical Indian philosophers challenged the apoha theory's legitimacy, believing instead in the existence of enduring essences. Seeking to settle this controversy, essays explore whether apoha offers new and workable solutions to problems in the scientific study of human cognition. They show that the work of generations of Indian philosophers can add much toward the resolution of persistent conundrums in analytic philosophy and cognitive science.

Architecture of the Newars: A History of Building Typologies and Details in Nepal

Architecture of the Newars: A History of Building Typologies and Details in Nepal (3 Volumes)
By: Niels Gutschow

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Architecture of the Newars by Niels Gutschow presents the entire history of architecture in the Valley of Kathmandu and its neighbours over a period of 1,500 years - right up to the present. It is a rare tribute to an urban culture which has preserved fascinating lifestyles to this very day. Gutschow first travelled to Nepal in 1962, returning in 1970 after reading architecture, and has constantly worked since then on the connections between ritual and the city. Since 1980 he has worked with measured drawings to identify the various building typologies, which are documented in three volumes with 862 photos and 939 drawings.

The first volume presents the complexity of the sacred landscape of the Valley and the urban context as well as the early periods, Buddhist votive structures (caityas), architectural fragments and temples from the early periods (5th-14th century). The second volume presents the Malla period (1350-1769) with a host of drawings documenting caityas, maths, tiered temples,shrines and monasteries. The third volume presents the modern period with temples and palaces of the Shaha kings and the Ranas; a variety of new caitya types; domestic architecture of the early 20th century; modern architecture and urban planning. The final chapter presents selected architectural details populated by airborne spirits in a transcultural perspective.

Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy

Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy
By: Ajahn Brahm

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As human beings, we strive to make life go smoothly for ourselves and others, but that is expecting from the world something it cannot give. Ajahn Brahm, the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? and Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond, presents in this new work wisdom for learning to abandon the headwind of false expectations and follow instead the path of understanding in order to find true joy within. By releasing our attachment to past and future, hope and fear, we can settle into the stillness underlying all our thoughts and discover the bliss of the present moment..

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Art of Happiness in a Troubled World (Audio CD)
Dalai Lama

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Blending common sense and modern psychiatry, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World applies Buddhist tradition to twenty-first-century struggles in a relevant way. The result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic and realistic, even in the most challenging times.

How can we expect to find happiness and meaning in our lives when the modern world seems such an unhappy place?

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has suffered enormously throughout his life, yet he always seems to be smiling and serene. How does he do it? In The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World, Dr. Cutler walks readers through the Dalai Lama's philosophy on how to achieve peace of mind and come to terms with life's inherent suffering. Together, the two examine the roots of many of the problems facing the world and show us how we can approach these calamities in a way that alleviates suffering, and helps us along in our personal quests to be happy. Through stories, meditations, and in-depth conversations, the Dalai Lama teaches readers to identify the cultural influences and ways of thinking that lead to personal unhappiness, making sense of the hardships we face personally, as well as the afflictions suffered by others.

Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion

Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion
Kathleen MacDonald

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Everyone appreciates kindness. A smile, a few friendly words, a show of concern when we're troubled or feeling unwell, an offer of help -- gestures of kindness like these brighten our day and ease whatever sadness we may feel in our hearts. And just as we appreciate other people being kind to us, others appreciate it when we are kind to them. But thought kindness is important, it doesn't always come easily: sometimes we are filled with anger, jealousy, or pride, and being kind is the last thing we feel like doing. Or we get so caught up in our work and responsibilities that we find no time to think of others. Kathleen McDonald introduces two powerful methods for awakening the kind heart in us all. The first is the practice of the four immeasurable thoughts -- love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. The second method is thought transformation, a beautiful practice based on a short, eight-verse text that is an exemplary guide to living compassionately.
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Benefits and Practices Related to Statues and Stupas Part 1

Benefits and Practices Related to Statues and Stupas Part 1
By: Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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This collection outlines the benefits of statues and stupas, together with advice on how to construct, fill and bless them. It also inculdes extensive advice on how to use a stupa to bring about realizations on the path, generate the causes for success of all kinds, heal sickness, and help others.

It is a wonderfully clear, practical manual on stupas--the types, symbolic meanings, practices related to--and holy objects--precious relic mantras, blessings of, and so forth. Practices such as circumambulation, offering, practices to do at holy places and much more are described and explained.

Bhaviveka and His Buddhist Opponents: Chapters 4 and 5 of the Verses on the Heart of the Middle Way (Madhyamakahrdayakarikah) with the Commentary Enti ( Harvard Oriental #70 )
By: Eckel

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Bhaviveka (ca. 500–560 ce) lived at a time of unusual creativity and ferment in the history of Indian Buddhist philosophy. The Mahayana movement was emerging as a vigorous and self-conscious intellectual force, while the earlier traditions of the eighteen “schools” (nikaya) resisted the authority of the Mahayana and continued to elaborate the fundamental concepts of Buddhist thought.

Bhaviveka’s “Verses on the Heart of the Middle Way” (Madhyamakahrdayakarika˙) with their commentary, known as “The Flame of Reason” (Tarkajvala), give a unique and authoritative account of the intellectual differences that stirred the Buddhist community in this creative period.

Bhaviveka and His Buddhist Opponents gives a clear and accessible translation of Chapters 4 and 5 of this text: the chapters on the Sravakas, or eighteen schools, and the Yogacaras, Bhaviveka’s most important Mahayana opponents. The translation is introduced by an essay that situates Bhaviveka in the intellectual context of sixth-century India, and it is accompanied by copious notes, commenting on Bhaviveka’s sources and explaining his controversial method. The book also contains a critical edition of the Sanskrit text of Bhaviveka’s verses and the Tibetan translation of the verses and commentary.

Birth, Life and Death According to Tibetan Medicine and the Dzogchen Teaching

Birth, Life and Death According to Tibetan Medicine and the Dzogchen Teaching
By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

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This book presents the basic principles of traditional Tibetan medicine that enable the reader to grasp some of the main points regarding birth, life, and death. The first section, on birth, touches on numerous related topics, ranging from the causes of conception of life in the womb to the behaviour that the pregnant woman should follow. The second section, on life, starts with an explanation of the so-called three doors of body, voice and mind and explains the way to live in good health. It presents the causes leading to humour imbalances that provoke the arising of illnesses, the properties of foods and drinks, various types of behaviour to be followed in different circumstances, and so forth. These topics are largely taken from the context of traditional Tibetan medicine. However the last part of this section stresses the importance of maintaining a continuous stream of presence and awareness throughout all aspects of life. The section on death deals with the nature of death and our attitude toward it but most of the discussion deals with the four types of intermediate state: the intermediate state between birth and death, the intermediate state of the moment of dying, the intermediate state of the real condition of existence, and the intermediate state of becoming. For each intermediate state the Author outlines the essential instruction that enables a person to attain liberation. It contains the whole original Tibetan text.

Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized

Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized
By: Owen Flanagan

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If we are material beings living in a material world--and all the scientific evidence suggests that we are--then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, in this physical world. We must cast our lot with the natural rather than the supernatural. Many Westerners with spiritual (but not religious) inclinations are attracted to Buddhism--almost as a kind of moral-mental hygiene. But, as Owen Flanagan points out in The Bodhisattva's Brain, Buddhism is hardly naturalistic. Atheistic when it comes to a creator god, Buddhism is otherwise opulently polytheistic, with spirits, protector deities, ghosts, and evil spirits. Its beliefs include karma, rebirth, nirvana, and nonphysical states of mind. What is a nonreligious, materially grounded spiritual seeker to do? In The Bodhisattva's Brain, Flanagan argues that it is possible to subtract the "hocus pocus" from Buddhism and discover a rich, empirically responsible philosophy that could point us to one path of human flourishing. "Buddhism naturalized," as Flanagan constructs it, contains a metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics; it is a fully naturalistic and comprehensive philosophy, compatible with the rest of knowledge. Some claim that neuroscience is in the process of validating Buddhism empirically, but Flanagan's naturalized Buddhism does not reduce itself to a brain scan showing happiness patterns. Buddhism naturalized offers instead a tool for achieving happiness and human flourishing--a way of conceiving of the human predicament, of thinking about meaning for finite material beings living in a material world.

Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind
By: Dan Arnold

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In the recent, burgeoning discourse on Buddhist thought and cognitive science, premodern Buddhists are sometimes characterized as veritable mind scientists whose insights anticipate modern research on the brain and mind. Aiming to complicate this story, Dan Arnold confronts a significant obstacle to popular attempts at harmonizing classical Buddhist and modern scientific thought: since most Indian Buddhists believe that the mental continuum is uninterrupted by death (its continuity is what Buddhists mean by rebirth), they would have no truck with claims that everything about the mental is explicable with reference to brain events. Yet despite this significant divergence, a predominant stream of Indian Buddhist thought, associated with the seventh-century thinker Dharmakīrti, turns out to be vulnerable to arguments modern philosophers have leveled against physicalism.

By characterizing the philosophical problems commonly faced by Dharmakīrti and contemporary philosophers such as Jerry Fodor and Daniel Dennett, Arnold seeks to advance an understanding of both first-millennium Indian arguments and contemporary debates in philosophy of mind. The issues center on what modern philosophers have called intentionalitythe fact that the mind can be about (or represent or mean) other things. Tracing an account of intentionality through Kant, Wilfrid Sellars, and John McDowell, Arnold argues that intentionality cannot, in principle, be explained in causal terms. Elaborating some of Dharmakīrtis central commitments (chiefly his apoha theory of meaning and his account of self-awareness), Arnold shows that despite Dharmakīrtis interest in refuting physicalism, his causal explanations of the mental mean that modern arguments from intentionality cut as much against his project as they do against physicalist philosophies of mind. This is evident in the arguments of some of Dharmakīrtis contemporaneous Indian critics (proponents of the orthodox Brahmanical Mīmāmsā school as well as fellow Buddhists from the Madhyamaka school of thought), whose critiques exemplify the same logic as modern arguments from intentionality. Arnolds complex study shows that seemingly arcane arguments among first-millennium Indian thinkers illuminate matters still very much at issue among contemporary philosophers.

Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages (rim lnga rab ti sgal ba'i sgron me): Practical Instruction in the King of Tantras: The Glorious Esoteric Commnuity
by Tsong Khapa

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The present work is the cornerstone of our Jey Yabsey Sungbum Collection, a subset of our Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series. Compromised of the collected work of Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa (1357-1419) and His Spiritual Sons, Gyaltsap Darma Rinchen (1364-1432) and Khendrup Gelek Pelsang (1385-1438), this Collection is a voluminous set of independent Tibetan treatises and super commentaries, all based on the thousands of works contained in the Kangyur and Tengyur Collections.
The Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages (Rim Inga rab tu gsal ba'i sgron me) is Tsong Khampa's most important commentary on the perfection stage practices of the Esoteric Community (Guhyasamaja), the Tantra he considered fundamental for the practice of the "Father Tantra" class of Unexcelled Yoga Tantras. It draws heavily on Nagarjuna's Five Stages (Pancakrama) and Aryadeva's Lamp the integrates the Practices (Caryamelapakapradipa),as well as a vast range of perfection stage works included in the Tibetan Kangyur and Tengyur collections. It is an important work for both scholars and practitioners. An annotated translation is supplemented with extensive glossaries and other support material. A companion volume of the critically edited Tibetan text, annotated with the found quoted from Tengyur and Kangyur texts in Tibetan and Sanskrit where available, will soon be published in a limited edition, and as an e-book.

Buddha & the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

Buddha & the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
Kiera Van Gelder

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The Buddha and the Borderline is a riveting, first-person account of one woman's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD)-a diagnosis some have called a psychiatric death sentence-and her eventual triumph over her symptoms through dialectical behavior therapy and Buddhist spirituality. While this book has something for everyone, Kiera's detailed account of how she recovered from this deadly disorder will be enormously inspiring to people with borderline personality disorder and their family members.

Buddha
By: Jon Ortner

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In the twenty-five centuries since the Buddha's death, his profound teachings and path have guided and enlightened millions of lives. The Buddha also has inspired some of the most beautiful and magnificent artistic creations ever produced by humanity. Jon Ortner's photographs of over 150 of these extraordinary works of art grace this volume. From the hundreds of rare Laotian Buddhas filling the Pak Ou Caves to the colossal gold and gem-encrusted Maha Muni Buddha of Mandalay, the Buddha's wisdom, compassion, and serenity are eternally present. Simple but powerful verses from the sacred teachings of the Buddha accompany the photographs. The foreword by Jon Ortner talks about their creation and the introduction by Jack Kornfield gives the reader an understanding of the Buddha's life and influence. Additional notes in the back of the book provide descriptive and historic information on key images.

Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation

Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation
By: Lodro Rinzler

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The Buddha Walks into a Bar is a book for those who are spiritual but not religious, who are disillusioned by the state of the world, who are sick of their jobs (and just started last Tuesday), who like drinking beer and having sex and hate being preached at, who are striving to deepen their social interactions beyond the digital realms of Twitter and Facebook. This is Buddhism presented to a generation leaving the safe growth spurts of college and entering a turbulent and uncertain work force.

The Buddha Walks into a Bar is Buddhist teacher Lodro Rinzler's introduction to Buddhism for anyone who wants to ride the waves of life with mindfulness and compassion. You'll learn how to use meditation techniques to work with your own mind, how to manage the pervasive "Incredible Hulk Syndrome," how to relax into your life despite external pressures, and ultimately how you can start to bring light to a dark world.

Buddha's Daughters: Spiritual Journeys of Early Women of the Dharma
By: Kate Blickhahn

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Historical fiction; "Buddha's Daughters" presents the stories of fifty Buddhist women and their spiritual achievements dating from the Buddha's time to the twelfth century C.E. The Buddha welcomed women from all castes and circumstances as equals into his group of followers, despite the mores and traditions of the patriarchal, even misogynistic Brahmin culture into which he was born. His teachings, his instructions for attaining enlightenment, were essentially gender-neutral. As Buddhism evolved, however, into its many forms, strong cultural forces gave this and other major world religions and spiritual paths a heavily patriarchal overlay. In short, the history of Buddhist women, their many achievements, their very names, have frequently been largely ignored, only dimly seen, rarely known. These fifty stories include portraits from the major traditions and schools that form the basis for "Vajrayana" (Tibetan Buddhism). Tales are drawn from the early "Way of the Elders," from the later tradition of "Mahayana," and from the traditions that ultimately coalesced into "Vajrayana." The author hopes that the spiritual journeys of these women, some more widely known than others, might introduce Buddhist practitioners and other readers to the inspiring achievements of some of their spiritual Mothers. For readers who already know these women, or some of them, may these stories enrich that acquaintance.

Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes

Buddha's Maitreya Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes, DVD
By: Thrangu Rinpoche

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In the Buddha Maitreya's Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes, the "middle" is the Middle-way and the two extremes are nihilism and eternalism. The present Buddha, of course, is the Shakyamuni Buddha, and Maitreya will be the next, future Buddha. Maitreya is known for giving the world the Five Treatises of Maitreya. These teachings are particularly precious because they represent the third turning of the wheel of dharma (with the Four Noble Truths teachings being the first turning and Nagarjuna’s vast teachings on emptiness being the second turning). This text is particularly close to Thrangu Rinpoche because it expounds the Shentong view and Thrangu Rinpoche has long been a well-recognized master of this point of view. In these recordings Rinpoche comments upon this text in great detail and provides ample opportunity for questions and answers. Translated by David Karma Choephel.

Buddha's Maitreya Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes, Thrangu Rinpoche, Valra Echoes, 4 DVDs, 15 hours, $99.00

Buddhas of Bamiyan
By: Llewelyn Morgan

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For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan.Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the Buddhas represented a confluence of religious and artistic traditions from India, China, Central Asia, and Iran, and even an echo of Greek influence brought by Alexander the Greats armies. By the time Genghis Khan destroyed the town of Bamiyan six centuries later, Islam had replaced Buddhism as the local religion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders of the Islamic world. Not until the nineteenth century did these figures come to the attention of Westerners. That is also the historical moment when the ground was laid for many of Afghanistans current problems, including the rise of the Taliban and the oppression of the Hazara people of Bamiyan. In a strange twist, the Hazarasdescendants of the conquering Mongol hordes who stormed Bamiyan in the thirteenth centuryhad come to venerate the Buddhas that once dominated their valley as symbols of their very different religious identity.

Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers, and hostages throughout history who set eyes on the Bamiyan Buddhas, Morgan tells the history of this region of paradox and heartache.

Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery
By: Romio Shrestha

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In the tradition of Celestial Gallery and Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery, Romio Shresthas latest large format art in Buddha's of the Celestial Gallery gathers striking Tibetan style Mandala paintings featuring the Buddha. Each book is hand-bound and two feet tall, reproduced from master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of artisan monks, who render postmodern interpretations of an age-old Tibetan artistic tradition. Made from malachite, lapis, marigolds and painted at times with three hairs of a cats tail, these paintings are produced in hauntingly powerful detail.
39 new beautiful portraits of the Buddha rendered in the traditional Tibetan style with meticulous detail.
Thoughtful reflections and explanations on the different presentations of the Buddha.
Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery

Romio Shrestha is a master of the artistic traditions of Nepal and Tibet. He directs a school of artist-craftsmen in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, painting in the Newari style. Shresthas work is represented in the British
Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and Tibet House in New York City. He is the author of The Tibetan Art of Healing, Celestial Gallery, and Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery.

Buddhism for a Violent World?
By: Elizabeth Harris

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Elizabeth Harris explores what Buddhism has to say about the human condition and in particular about living in a violent world. It draws on conversations with Buddhists, Buddhist texts, the author’s personal diaries and experiences to show that Buddhism in action is rarely about physical withdrawal but about engagement with the suffering of others. Drawing on the realities of the violent ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, the book shows that there are no easy answers but Buddhism has much to offer to those who want to understand better the dynamics of conflict.

The turbulent history of relationships between Buddhists and Christians in countries such as Sri Lanka, where the actions of Christian missionaries in the colonial period led to a Buddhist revival and Buddhist-Christian conflict are explored as a backdrop to more positive examples of Buddhist-Christian encounters.

Written by a Christian with a positive perspective on Buddhism, this book illustrates the practical as well as theoretical value of dialogue and mutual respect in a troubled world.

Buddhism: A Beginner's Guide to Inner Peace and Fulfillment

Buddhism: A Beginner's Guide to Inner Peace and Fulfillment (CD)
By: Jack Kornfield

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Why are so many contemporary westerners drawn to Buddhist philosophy? Because it offers a practical means to achieving the inner peace, fulfillment, and happiness that we all want. Buddhism: A Beginner's Guide to Inner Peace and Fulfillment is an informative yet compact audio guide with celebrated teacher Jack Kornfield. In one liberating CD session, listeners hear the story of Siddhartha's enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, the core wisdom of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, and essentials of Buddhism's many branches and practices. With guided mindfulness and lovingkindness meditations.

Buddhist Teaching in India
By: Johannes Bronkhorst

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The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhism had many opportunities to both influence and be influenced by competing schools of thought. Even within Buddhism, a proliferation of interpretive traditions produced a dynamic intellectual climate. Johannes Bronkhorst here tracks the development of Buddhist teachings both within the larger Indian context and among Buddhism's many schools, shedding light on the sources and trajectory of such ideas as dharma theory, emptiness, the bodhisattva ideal, buddha nature, formal logic, and idealism. In these pages, we discover the roots of the doctrinal debates that have animated the Buddhist tradition up until the present day.

Bullet Trains to Yaks: Glimpses Into Art, Politics, and Culture in China and Tibet

Bullet Trains to Yaks: Glimpses Into Art, Politics, and Culture in China and Tibet
By: Stan Biderman and Kathryn Minette (Photographer)

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Join writer Stan Biderman and photographer Kathryn Minette as they cross China and Tibet in search of treasure, finding thousand-year-old Buddhas, lutes, and celestial burial sites. The author reveals a China that hosts such advanced technology as bullet trains juxtaposed against centuries-old mainstays like yaks and camels. Enhanced by Minette's thirty-two page full-color insert and her seventy black-and-white photos interspersed throughout each chapter, this husband-and-wife team document disappearing cultures amid the conflict of a nation attempting to modernize under a totalitarian regime. As the child of Holocaust survivors, Stan is a student of history and a critic of oppressive regimes. In China he experienced firsthand the often brutal military presence in western China and Tibet, and the severe curtailment of speech throughout the country. With the uprisings in the Middle East, he cannot help but wonder-is China next? And if not, how brutal will its regime become in silencing its people?

Calling to the Lama from Afar: Verses of Supplication and Praise to Lord Jigten Sumgon
By: Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche (translator)

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A collection of prayers and devotions concerning Kyobpa Jigten Sumgon, the founder of the Drigung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Jigten Sumgon appeared in Tibet in the 12th century, and extensively taught the vast and profound Buddhadharma. It is said that he promised to always be present for those with devotion. The prayers translated in this text express the depth of genuine devotion in a manner that is characteristic of this genre of Tibetan literature.

Chronicles of Love and Death: My Years with the Lost Spiritual King of Bhutan

Chronicles of Love and Death: My Years with the Lost Spiritual King of Bhutan
By: Norma Levine

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This is a true story of a spiritual journey and the incredible but all too human love between a Western woman and a high reincarnate lama, the spiritual king of Bhutan. It is neither biography nor autobiography. It is a play that arose and disappeared like an illusion; a magical display of comedy and tragedy, history, romance, and transcendence.

Compassion in Emptiness Dalai Lama (DVD)

Compassion in Emptiness (4 DVD set)
By: Dalai Lama

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Each year, His Holiness the Dalai Lama travels the world offering teachings and public talks to individuals from many different faiths and backgrounds. In 2010, His Holiness traveled to New York City to teach A Commentary on Bodhicitta by Nagarjuna and A Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life by Shantideva. Following the teachings, His Holiness the Dalai Lama went on to address a sold-out crowd at Radio City Music Hall with Awakening the Heart of Selflessness, a public talk followed by a candid question and answer session. In this talk, His Holiness discusses ways in which one can achieve the realization of selflessness and ultimately achieve inner peace, which in turn generates a genuine sense of responsibility for the happiness of others and eventually creates a more compassionate world for everyone. Hosted by The Gere Foundation and The Tibet Center and brought to you by Oscilloscope Laboratories, COMPASSION IN EMPTINESS presents two historic records of one of the worlds most important spiritual leaders and his unique message of wisdom and compassion.
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Compassion NOW! H.H. Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Compassion NOW!
H.H. Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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Too often compassionate feeling is left inactive. Compassion NOW! is a work not only focused on how love and compassion are the root of all Buddhist practices, but is a call to put these compassionate feelings into action in the world. From a teaching given in India in 2010, His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa sets forth that compassion for oneself is the starting point from which we can expand to other beings with whom we have a close connection and then further to an immeasurable compassion for all beings through the Mahayana practice of mind training, which he discusses with clarity and insight. An overview of the Vajrayana method of meditation on Chenrezik, the bodhisattva of compassion, also is included, where His Holiness guides our attention to the central role of the practice: cultivating compassion.

Cult of Emptiness: The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy Urs App

Cult of Emptiness: The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy
By: Urs App

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Whereas the discovery by Europeans of the continents of our earth has been the subject of countless studies and its protagonists (such as Columbus) are universally known, research on the European discovery of our globe's "spiritual continents" - its religions and philosophies - is still in its infancy. The Christian West's discovery of Asia's largest religion and fount of philosophies, Buddhism, is a case in point: though it triggered one of the most significant and influential spiritual and cultural encounters in world history, even the most basic questions remain unanswered. What did Europeans first learn about Buddhist thought? When and where did this discovery take place and who was involved in it? What kind of Buddhism did they study, how did they understand or misunderstand it, and what were the repercussions of such discoveries in Europe? Based on a wide range of sources in European and Asian languages, Urs App - the author of The Birth of Orientalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) - identifies the protagonists of the first Western encounter with Buddhism and shows how their interpretation of Buddhist doctrines led to the invention of a single "Oriental philosophy" reigning from Egypt to Japan: an atheist philosophy anchored in "nothingness" and "emptiness" that was revealed by the Buddha to his closest disciples on his deathbed. Leading thinkers of the Enlightenment came to regard this philosophy as the most ancient form of atheism, the ancestor of Greek philosophy, the precursor of Spinoza, and the fount of mysticism as well as countless heresies including monism, pantheism, quietism, and gnosticism.

Dalai Lama Renaissance (DVD)

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At the edge of the Millennium, The Dalai Lama of Tibet invited 40 of the West’s leading, most innovative thinkers in their respective fields to his residence tucked away in the Himalayan mountains of Northern India to discuss the world’s problems and how we can solve them. What transpired was unexpected and powerful, and was captured by an 18 person, 5 camera film crew. The Wakan Foundation for the Arts took its 18 person crew to India and shot more than 140 hours of video footage during the week-long meeting and exploration of the future of mankind-- enough gripping and beautiful footage to make a powerful and cinematic documentary. The resulting feature-length documentary, Dalai Lama Renaissance, has already received a very positive response, and will be widely released and distributed in the second half of 2008. Dalai Lama Renaissance is narrated by actor Harrison Ford.

Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol. 2: A Revolution of Ideas

Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol. 2: A Revolution of Ideas (DVD)

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What is it like meeting the Dalai Lama and speaking with him about facing the challenges of our time?

What are the Dalai Lama's solutions to the world's problems?

Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol. 2 : A Revolution of Ideas begins where the award-winning Dalai Lama Renaissance documentary film, narrated by Harrison Ford, left off.

In this important, profound and intimate meeting, some of the world's most innovative thinkers meet with the Dalai Lama at his residence in the Himalayan Mountains of Dharamsala, India to present their ideas for a better world.

With humor and profound insight, the Dalai Lama inspires our hearts and minds with some of the greatest wisdom of our Age.

Participants in this dialogue include: Michael Beckwith, Fred Alan Wolf, Amit Goswami, Jean Houston, Thom Hartmann, John E. Mack, Duane Elgin, Vicki Robin, David Korten, Elisabet Sahtouris, Michael Toms, Brother Wayne Teasdale, and other innovative thinkers.

Some of the topics discussed include: spirituality, morality and ethics, business and economics, the environment, education, health and psychology, media and arts, and other subjects.

Eavesdrop on this intimate conversation between great minds in their quest for a better world.

Dharma of Capitalism: A Guide to Mindful Decision-Making in the Business of Life

Dharma of Capitalism: A Guide to Mindful Decision-Making in the Business of Life
By: Nitesh Gor

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Co-founder of the Dow Jones Dharma Index and an ethics and investment consultant, Nitesh Gor shows how Eastern culture is reshaping Western ideas about social responsibility and "doing the right thing." A practical, anecdote illustrated guide to a decision-making process that merges concepts from East and West to more predictably create "good" outcomes in business and in life that are both profitable and practical.

Dont say No to a Tibetan (Dharamsala Chronicles)

Dont say No to a Tibetan (Dharamsala Chronicles)
By: Bertrand Odelys

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The Tibetans portrayed here are not represented as downtrodden victims, but as a courageous people waiting for an opportunity to show their worth. Dont Say No to a Tibetan is not a slogan. The title sends a message to the Chinese that the karmic retribution for treading on an innocent people will be great. The book makes a distinction between the brutal no! of the aggressor and the well thought out No of the person open to dialogue. Tibetans have a perfect right to say No to their colonizers. To learn to fight back as an organized movement is now a necessity.

Dzogchen Invocations
By: Rigdzin Godem Chen, Jigmed Lingpa, Ju Mipham Gyatso, Adzom Drugpa

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This book contains five invocations, the first four particularly tied to the principle of Dzogchen and the fifth to Vajrayana. The Invocation of Samantabhadra belongs to the cycle of the Northern Treasures (Byang gter) discovered by the tertn Rigdzin Godem Chen. The Invocation to the Base, the Path, and the Fruit belongs to the Longchen Nyingthig cycle of Jigmed Lingpa. The Invocation and Introduction to the Bardo is found in the collection of miscellaneous writings of Longchenpa. The Natural Vajra Energy of Instant Presence and Emptiness: An Invocation to the Inseparable Meaning of the Base, Path, and Fruit of Manjushri Dzogpa Chenpo is a famous invocation by Ju Mipham Gyatso. Finally, the Invocation of the Lamp belongs to the terma cycle The Secret Treasure of the Vajra of Luminous Clarity discovered by Adzom Drugpa.

Emergence of Buddhist American Literature

Emergence of Buddhist American Literature
By: John Whalen-Bridge

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Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how it has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.

The encounter between Buddhism and American literature has been a powerful one for both parties. While Buddhism fueled the Beat movement's resounding critique of the United States as a spiritually dead society, Beat writers and others have shaped how Buddhism has been presented to and perceived by a North American audience. Contributors to this volume explore how Asian influences have been adapted to American desires in literary works and at Buddhist poetics, or how Buddhist practices emerge in literary works. Starting with early aesthetic theories of Ernest Fenollosa, made famous but also distorted by Ezra Pound, the book moves on to the countercultural voices associated with the Beat movement and its friends and heirs such as Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Giorno, Waldman, and Whalen. The volume also considers the work of contemporary American writers of color influenced by Buddhism, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Charles Johnson, and Lan Cao. An interview with Kingston is included.

Encyclopedia of Subtle Instruction
By: Bruce Nelson

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The Encyclopedia of Subtle Instruction is a collection of dharma teachings on the essential nature of awareness drawn from the Yogacara and Dzogchen lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. The first part of the book consists of short talks on topics such as The Bardos, Buddhist Yoga, The Cardinal Virtues, Consciousness Only, Dreaming, The Dzogchen Lineage, The Elements of Existence, Emptiness, Enlightened Kingdoms, Feminine Wisdom, Goodness, Guru Rinpoche, Immortality, Karma, The Middle Way, Pure Experience, Selflessness, Suchness, The Three Kayas, and The Yoga of Subtle Awareness. The second part of the book is a series of seventy-two short poems in traditional doha style envisioned as instructions for practice given by the embodiment of wisdom, Yeshe Tsogyal. Written for lay practitioners, the book provides a clear and comprehensive guide to Buddhist philosophy and meditation.

End of Suffering and The Discovery of Happiness

End of Suffering and The Discovery of Happiness: The Path of Tibetan Buddhism
By: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

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The End of Suffering and the Discovery of Happiness presents a clear and straightforward road map for how we might end our experience of suffering and discover happiness, drawn by the most celebrated spiritual master of BuddhismHis Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

In this insightful volume, he not only describes what religion can contribute to mankind, but also accentuates the significance of truly practicing religion and understanding what it is that mankind really needs.

His Holiness explains the three turnings of the wheel of Dharma; the purpose and the means of generating the mind of enlightenment; and the twelve links of dependent arising, as well as other preliminary concepts. Tsongkhapas The Three Principal Aspects of the Path and The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment have also been beautifully described in great detail.

In The End of Suffering and the Discovery of Happiness, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, renowned for his warm-heartedness and his message of love, compassion, and peace offers an illuminating glimpse into the core of Tibetan Buddhism.

Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You
Willa Miller

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In "Everyday Dharma, " Willa Miller, an authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, reworks ancient Buddhist techniques and adapts them for western readers seeking personal transformation. Becoming a Buddha, Lama Miller explains, means observing the mind and actions and then doing the physical, psychological, and spiritual work to move closer to one's wisdom nature. Dharma is spiritual practice; it's what one does every day to make one's mind and world a better place to live. Each chapter includes a passage to read, an exercise of the day that relates to each week's topic, a quote from a sage, and tips on how to make daily practice a little easier. The book shows that it's not necessary to subscribe to a particular -- or any -- belief system to benefit from this program. "It's only necessary," says Lama Miller, "to believe one deserves to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life."

Eye to Form Is Only Love: A Journal of 100 Days
By: Traktung Yeshe Dorje

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For 100 days, at the request of one of his students, an American born lama in the Nyingma lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism kept a journal of short reflections. Some days, the heartbreaking poetry of devotion, or essays in celebration of dawn, light, trees; on others, razor-like distinctions about the nature of the mind, challenges to conventional views of seeing, or seething commentary on the shallowness of contemporary culture. Taken together, but in small considered bites, the entries will provide a rare meal to any sincere practitioner who recognizes direct and authentic spiritual discourse. The heart of this book's message is that a mind that wishes spiritual freedom (which is both the starting point and the end of the spiritual path) must question everything. And further, that this questioning can only be done with great sensitivity from a vantage point that sees its past conditionings, and aims to be free from them. This book is a demonstration and celebration in poetry, prose and song of that freedom. Traktung Yeshe Dorje has been guiding both individuals and community for the last 23 years, drawing his students and friends into the world of spiritual awakening by offering them a window into a different way of considering appearances. The unique offering of this book is the deeply personal manner in which insights are presented-using a journal format rather than direct instructions about spiritual topics. An astute reader will glimpse-even "fall into-the way of perceiving of a tantric spiritual adept. We experience, if only for a moment, how things appear to one whose mind is free from conditioning. Eye to Form challenges the reader to consider familiar topics & scenarios from a new, perhaps radical, perspective. The invitation here is to profound consideration of life's deeper meanings through the unique intersection of beauty, wisdom & silence. This is not a "practical guide-it offers no plans for or steps to enlightenment or happiness. In fact, the author has no compunction in undermining such fast-food approaches to the recognition of Buddhahood. Eye to Form, therefore, can be extremely beneficial to those who not looking to be told what to do, but rather are inspired to think deeply, carefully & freshly. Intelligent choices on the spiritual path can be made only as one's considerations reach beyond ordinary-mind's conditioning. The challenge for this type of consideration is perhaps more useful than yet another self-help manual.

Falling to Heaven
By: Jeanne Peterson

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FALLING TO HEAVEN is the story of two American Quakers who trek into Tibet in 1954. In this work of historical fiction, Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community and travel to the Tibetan city of Shigatse where they soon find companionship with their neighbors, Dorje and Rinchen, and their small family. But the arrival of Maoist soldiers into their quiet life shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma facing an agonizing decision: flee Tibet or stay and risk imprisonment herself. Dorje and Rinchen are her only allies, but their lives are also thrown into turmoil when their son abandons the sanctuary of his monastery to fight in the resistance. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, FALLING TO HEAVEN is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you’d never expect. FALLING TO HEAVEN conjures a panoramic tale that unfolds the mysteries of an ancient and peaceful way of life.

First Russia, Then Tibet
By: Robert Byron

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Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took a week, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the British Raj. Gandhi was imprisoned while rioting and clashes between Hindus and Muslims had become commonplace. Finally Byron entered Tibet, the forbidden country. Exploring the Land of Snows, he saw Tibet as it was when the then Dalai Lama was still ensconced in the Potala Palace, twenty years before China's invasion. Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj. As a piece of travel literature, "First Russia, Then Tibet" is compelling and beautifully-written. As a portrait of these countries in the 1930s, it is invaluable.

Ultimately, it illuminates the constant quest for meaning that underscored Robert Byron's life and travels.

For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva, CD
By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Author), Jeffrey, Ph.D. Hopkins

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Many people consider the Dalai Lama to be a living embodiment of the spiritual ideal of the bodhisattva—someone who dedicates their life to freeing all beings from suffering and confusion. Here this beloved teacher presents a detailed manual of practical philosophy based on the best-known text of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara). He explains and amplifies the text, illuminating its message of putting others before oneself and showing how anyone can develop a truly “good heart.” This book was previously published under the title A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night.

Forgotten Gods of Tibet : Early Buddhist Art in the Western Himalayas

Forgotten Gods of Tibet : Early Buddhist Art in the Western Himalayas
By: Peter Van Ham and Aglaja Stirn

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Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout, this book presents little known masterpices of early Buddhist art from the Spiti and Kinnaur regions on the Indo-Tibetan border. A well-researched text provides a history of the region and explains the production of the paintings and carvings and their cultural and religious significance. 159p, col illus (1997 Editions Menges)

Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan
By: Peter Harrison

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Buddhism has been influential in the mountain kingdoms of the Himalayas since the 7th century AD, most notably in the kingdom of Tibet where it permeated all aspects and levels of society until the 20th century. From the 9th-century AD onwards, the secular rulers of Tibet sought to extend their influence, and that of Buddhism, throughout the region. To this end, huge stone and mud-brick fortifications, known as dzongs, were constructed to dominate the secular landscape, while massive Buddhist monasteries dominated the religious - both following a very specific style of Tibetan architecture. It has been estimated that as many as 3,000 monasteries were built along with 200 dzongs.
Mongol invasions from the 12th century onwards provided another influence, while internecine fighting in the 17th century led to increased fortification of the monasteries and the rise of the Dalai Lama as the head of a theocracy in Tibet, centred on the Potala Palace in Lhasa - a true fusion between secular dzong and religious monastery.
Elsewhere in the Tibetan-influenced Himlayas the Buddhist Indian Kashmiri kingdom of Ladakh withstood assaults by both Muslims and Sikhs and developed a style of fortress monastery located on rocky peaks for defence, these often became combined with the fortified palaces of the rulers of Ladakh. With the foundation of Bhutan in the 17th century, further fortified monasteries were created in an effort to protect the new state's independence form the Dalai Lama.
These fortifications have survived largely intact through today, as Chinese control over the Tibetan Autonomous Region has led to the destruction of the vast majority of the fortified monasteries and dzongs of that particular area.
This title recreates the dramatic and colorful fortifications created in these mountain kingdoms, and recounts their operational history through the foreign incursions, religious conflicts and civil wars that litter their history, right through to the Tibetan uprising and flight of the Dalai Lama form the Potala Palace in 1959

Foundation of the Path By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

Foundation of the Path
By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

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If we observe well we can see that most of us are like a stone in water. Maybe we talk about bodhicitta, about acting for the good of others and many other nice things, and live in a rosy atmosphere, but then we remain like a stone. Usually things that are left in water get soft, but not a stone, it always remains hard because that is its condition, it never relaxes and even after centuries it does not have the least idea of integrating with the water. Even if it stays in the water for thousands of years, if we break it open it is still dry inside. In this way our ego never integrates with the teaching, all it is capable of doing is uttering a lot of nice words, like a scholarly professor who gives a talk and everyone says, Ah, how erudite he is, what a good talk. But really they have not integrated anything in themselves and their condition has not changed one jot. The teaching must not become like this, we must integrate it in ourselves. But in order to integrate it we must open a bit, that is, we must observe ourselves and understand our condition.

This collection of teachings contains the foundation for observing ourselves and understanding our real condition. It introduces the Four Awarenesses, the Three Sacred Principles (refuge, bodhicitta, dedication of merit), the Three Trainings, and the Vajra State.

From Vasubandhu to Caitanya: Studies in Indian Philosophy and Its Textual History

From Vasubandhu to Caitanya: Studies in Indian Philosophy and Its Textual History
By: Johannes Bronkhorst ; Karin Preisendanz (Editors)

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The chapters in this volume are a selection of papers presented in the general Philosophy Section at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, Finland. The first part of the book, Studies in Indian Philosophy, contains nine studies on individual topics and concepts in Indian philosophy from various perspectives: historical-philological, philosophical and comparative. They are inter alia concerned with such fundamental issues as the characteristic signs of the Self, the concept of vijnaptimatrata in Vasubandhu's Yogacara, the notion of unchanging cognition in the writings of the Kashmirian author Ramakantha, the definition of existence according to the late Buddhist philosopher Jnanasrimitra, and the significance of the sadhana catustaya in Vedanta. In the second part of the book, two papers contribute to the study of the textual history of Indian philosophy, with a focus on the Patanjalayogasastra and Candrananda's commentary on the Vaisesikasutra.

Gate of Entry into the Limitless Activities of the Supreme Noble Ones

Gate of Entry into the Limitless Activities of the Supreme Noble Ones: A Short Commentary on the Aspiration Prayer for the Excellent Conduct of the Noble Ones
By: Lochen Dharmashri

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This commentary by the great scholar Lochen Dharmashri elucidates the meaning of The King of Aspiration Prayers practiced by all the different sects of Tibetan Buddhism, It is said in the aspiration prayer, "If I make this aspiration prayer for excellent conduct, I will abandon all rebirths in the lower realms. I will be free from associating with inappropriate friends and will quickly see the Buddha Amitabha."

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times: A Lamp in the Darkness

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times: A Lamp in the Darkness
By: Jack Kornfield

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We all face tough times. But how can we meet these difficult situations with a compassionate heart and a clear mind? Inside each of us is an inner light that I call 'The One Who Knows,' teaches Jack Kornfield. Awakening to this wisdom can help us find our way through pain and suffering with grace, tenderness, and curiosity.

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times gives us eight new practices for reconnecting to our inner guide to skillfully navigate life's storms. With his warm teaching style and gift for storytelling, Jack Kornfield invites us to discover:

Equanimity and Peace-how to hold the sorrows and struggles of our world and our selves with balance, while seeing the great peace behind it all
Shared Compassion-a revolutionary practice for learning to experience painful situations with understanding and care
Forgiveness-for releasing the past and breaking down barriers to all that is closed in the heart
Setting Your Highest Intention-a powerful guide for navigating difficulty and awakening to the shining beauty and potential of the human spirit

Our inner wisdom can light the way ahead so that we can take life in stride, teaches Kornfield. Guided Meditations for Difficult Times offers fresh insights and practices for being present, loving, and open in the midst of any life challenge.

Guided Meditations for Self-Healing: Essential Practices to Relieve Physical and Emotional Suffering and Enhance Recovery (audio CD)
By: Jack Kornfield

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Meditation brings you into a deep communion with your own body and heart-but what happens when you are sick or in pain? With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield guides you through meditations created specifically to ease physical and emotional suffering and activate a powerful capacity for restoring yourself to wholeness. Join this leading meditation teacher and psychologist for three essential practices that tap the healing power of attention:

Healing Presence-how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration
The Healing Temple-guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary gifts for true recovery and blessing
The Healing Power of Love-directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need

We are conditioned to approach healing as an act of control, in which we judge what is wrong with us and impose a change. The way of awareness teaches us how to turn toward that which is injured in us with a caring and fearless attention, so we may open the door to true healing at every level of our being. With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield brings you three potent practices to bring compassionate energy where it is needed in your body, psyche, and spirit-and to awaken the master healer within you.

Heart of the Path: Seeing The Guru As Buddha

Heart of the Path: Seeing The Guru As Buddha
By: Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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For the past seven years, editor Ven. Ailsa Cameron has been editing Lama Zopa Rinpoche s teachings on Guru Devotion. She has drawn on nearly fifty different teachings that Rinpoche has given over the past three decades and the result is this book, The Heart of the Path: Seeing the Guru as Buddha. This is a fantastic teaching on Guru Devotion and is a great and very important book. Excerpts from Heart of the Path: "Guru yoga is the key to all happiness." "Without guru devotion, nothing happens no realizations, no liberation, no enlightenment just as without the root of a tree there can be no trunk, branches, leaves or fruit. Everything, up to enlightenment, depends on guru devotion."

Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings of Forgiveness, Compassion, and Kindness

Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings of Forgiveness, Compassion, and Kindness
By: Noah Levine

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The Heart of the Revolution is a step-by-step guide to finding freedom and showing compassion in everyday circumstances. In this new book, the bad boy Buddhist offers a hip and edgy instruction manual on how to apply Buddhist practices to daily challenges.

Drawing on his personal struggles and illustrated with ancient Buddhist teaching stories as well as the real-life experiences of his students, Levine delves deeply into the philosophy and application of meditative practices to create what is already being called an American Buddhist Tradition. Through dramatic stories, practical instruction, and a programmatic guide to applying compassion and mindfulness to daily life, Levine presents a modern Buddhism for a new generation.

Hevajra and Lam Bras Literature of India and Tibet as Seen Through the Eyes of A-Mes-Zhab

Hevajra and Lam Bras Literature of India and Tibet as Seen Through the Eyes of A-Mes-Zhab
By: Jan-Ulrich Sobisch

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The Hevajra Tantras and teachings of the 'Path with Its Fruit' (lam 'bras) that originated in India have been central practices of Tibetan tantric Buddhism for a millenium. The Tibetans translated eight Hevajra transmissions with their tantras, commentaries, rituals, and instructions and authored countless scriptures in the context of the tantra and the 'Path with Its Fruit' that originated with the Indian Mahasiddha Virupa. Drawing on title lists (dkar chag), colophones, and commentaries authored between the 11th and 17th centuries, the author attempts a reconstruction of the Indian and Tibetan corpora of these transmissions, its literary history and relations to one another.

Hevajra Tantra: A Critical Study
By: Snellgrove

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In this groundbreaking work, the author presents us with a full translation of, and commentary on, the Hevajra tantra, providing not only deep insight into arguably the most important surviving tantric Buddhist text but also placing the entire corpus of such works into a more accurate context.
Snellgrove presents the Hevajra tantra, and tantric texts of this class, not as a degenerate product of a faith at the time in terminal decline in India "as has often been claimed by puritanical scholars" but rather as a wholly legitimate expression of esoteric ritual and meditative practice developed as a natural evolution within the madhyamika tradition.
While based primarily on Nepalese manuscript editions of the text, Snellgrove makes extensive reference to the Tibetan translation as well as to extant Indian commentaries. The first half of the work comprises an introduction and the actual translation with detailed annotations, while the second consists of the Romanized original Sanskrit and Tibetan texts and an extensive glossary.

Illusion of Life and Death
By: Kyabje Dzogchen Pema Kalsang Rinpoche

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Illusion is our life, our death. We are stuck in a dream world, but this is not a sweet dream. There is hope, but we must change. We must help ourselves, and help each other. 'Illusion of Life and Death' presents us with the complete path to enlightenment. It is a personal testament to the value and effectiveness of the Buddhist teachings and an empowering embrace of our own potential. Written to intrigue and inspire beginners, as well as nourish more experienced practitioners, 'Illusion' is essential reading for anyone interested in awakening to a happier, more enlightened world.

Inner Science of Buddhist Practice: Vasubhandu’s Summary of the Five Heaps with Commentary by Sthiramati
By: Artemus B. Engle

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The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice contains translations of texts by two historically important Indian Buddhist scholars: (1) Vasubandhu's Summary of the Five Heaps and (2) Sthiramati's commentary on Vasubandhu's root text. The subject matter is the traditional Buddhist analysis of ordinary experience. These two works provide rich resources for a bridge connecting classical Buddhist and Western interpretations for the study of the psychology of spiritual development.

Engle's lengthy introduction explores how the material contained in the two translations can improve practice of the Tibetan teaching system known as Lamrim, or "Stages of the Path." Each of the three divisions of the Lamrim teaching is examined in an effort to demonstrate how an understanding of such doctrines as the five "heaps," or experiential constituents, can bring a deeper conviction regarding that portion of the instruction.

Hardcover, 2009, 472 Pages, $34.95

Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy in India and Tibet

Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy in India and Tibet
By: Zabiruddin Ahmad

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This book is an in-depth study of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet. The concentration is on ontology/epistemology and, to a somewhat lesser extent, soteriology. It is based on the writings of the Buddhist philosophers themselves, from the unknown authors of the Pali `Abhidhamma books down to the present Dalai Lama of Tibet. It takes into consideration the work of many twentieth century scholars of Buddhism in order to bring our knowledge of Buddhist philosophy up-to-date. An exhaustive index (and glossary) has been prepared in order to help the reader with the technical terms of Buddhist philosophy.

Kalama Sutta: The Rediscovery of Conscience

Kalama Sutta: The Rediscovery of Conscience
By: Saber Uddiyan

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Look, Kalamas, it is not by recitation, nor by tradition, nor by report, nor by scripture, nor by reason of philosophy, nor by reason of inference, nor by thinking ideas through, nor by favouring views, nor by others\' seeming capability, nor insofar as a particular ascetic is your teacher, but rather when you know for yourselves' With these words, among his most famous, the Buddha threw down a gauntlet for authentic seekers of truth and well-being that we in modern times rarely have the courage to take up. In our global village embittered by conflict and manipulated for profit, we cling more to identities and care for each other less than ever. It is hard to imagine a time when we have needed this advice from the Buddha more than we do now. Including a new, authoritative translation of the entire Kalama Sutta, and the original Pali for reciting, this detailed and wide-ranging commentary relates modern individual and social problems to the Buddha's inquiry, and includes trenchant re-appraisal of Christianity and Islam, as well as modern ideologies such as free market capitalism, security mania and grievance culture. It presents detailed practical instructions on how to apply the powerful methods the Buddha suggests to rediscover the conscience which can guide us on an authentic and liberating path.

Key for Consulting the Tibetan Calendar
By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

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Much information on Tibetan astrology and on its application to daily life. A practical and complete manual, indispensible for the consultation of the annual astrological calendar.

Key Issues of Visualization: Four Nails Pinning the Life-Forces: A Melody of Brahma Playing Throughout the Three Realms by Dza Patrul

Key Issues of Visualization: Four Nails Pinning the Life-Forces: A Melody of Brahma Playing Throughout the Three Realms by Dza Patrul
By: Tony Duff

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The first Patrul Rinpoche (Dza Patrul Chokyi Wangpo) was a very learned and accomplished master of the 19th century in Tibet. He wrote widely on all aspects of practice. In this text, he explains the most important foremost instruction taught in the Nyingma tradition for Development Stage practice. It is a Nyingma teaching but it is completely applicable to the Development Stage practice taught in all of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The name of the foremost instruction explained in the text is Four Nails Pinning the Life-Forces. This instruction is a set of four headings which cover all the main topics of Development Stage practice and which are, at the same time, a complete set of instructions for the practice. It goes even further than that: because they are the main topics of Development Stage practice, they also include all of the many sub-topics of the practice. Patrul Rinpoche explains all of this clearly and then enumerates forty different sub-topics, each one being an instruction for Development Stage practice. Moreover, when Dza Patrul explains the Four Nails, he also explains it in terms of the other main instructions for Development Stage practice; for example, he gives an excellent explanation of the subject called Purifying, Completing, Ripening in relation to the first nail. Altogether the text is a very rich source of instruction for anyone doing Development Stage practice and an excellent resource for those trying to understand its various details.

PKTC, Paperback, 88 Pages, $20.00

Key Points of Direct Crossing, called Nectar of the Pure Part

Key Points of Direct Crossing, called Nectar of the Pure Part

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Khenchen Padma Namgyal was one of the great khenpos of Zurmang Monastery in Kham (Zurmang is the seat of the Trungpa Rinpoches). Khenchen Padma Namgyal travelled to Dzogchen monastery where he entered the famous Shri Singha College to gain a deep Buddhist education. He also learned the practices of Great Completion (Dzogpa Chenpo) while he was there. After completing his studies, he returned to Zurmang where he became renowned as a particularly knowledgeable khenpo who also had a deep practical understanding of innermost Great Completion practice.

One day, Khenchen Padma Namgyal had gone out onto a mountain side for a session of Direct Crossing (thogal) practice with his students. He started the session, as is usually done, with some instruction. The instruction turned into a summary of the whole practice of Direct Crossing. Lama Tony, while receiving these same instructions in places formerly visited by the Khenchen, was given the text. The auspicious connection was overwhelming so he translated the text immediately in the hope that it would be useful to others. The text is very short but the instruction is complete and will definitely be helpful to anyone who is genuinely doing Direct Crossing practice.

26 Pages The book can be purchased by writing to Lotsawa Tony and asking for a copy. It will only be sold to those who are actually doing the practice and who do have proper instructions. Please present your credentials at that time. Needless to say, this kind of material is very hard to come by!

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Khenpo Gangshar's The Magical Key(DVD) : Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Khenpo Gangshar's The Magical Key (DVD)
By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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This experiential Song of the Dzogchen View, written by Ju Mipham with commentary by Khenpo Gangshar, starts with instructions for beginners to gain direct experience of freedom from extremes. Miphams song continues with instructions on the actual practice of Dzogchen how to see directly un-obscured self-arisen awareness. This section of the song culminates in a profound meditation instruction on realizing the unmistaken meaning of the union of awareness and emptiness. The concluding sections clearly point out both the helpful and misleading teachings found in the exposition, sutra, mind only and middle way schools as presented by masters of the Sakya, Geluk, Kagyu and Drukpa lineages. Thrangu Rinpoches extensive teachings elucidate the meaning and make this experiential song accessible to both beginning and advanced practitioners. Practice sessions as well as question and answer sessions further clarify the meaning. Ju Mipchams song, together with an outline extracted from Khenpo Gangshars commentary, is included with this DVD set. Translated by David Choepel.

Khenpo Gangshar's The Magical Key (MP3 CD) : Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Khenpo Gangshar's The Magical Key that Opens the Door to the Great Middle Way of the Definitive Meaning (MP3 CD)
By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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Kilaya Nirvana Tantra and the Vajra Wrath Tantra: Two Texts from the Ancient Tantra Collection

Kilaya Nirvana Tantra and the Vajra Wrath Tantra: Two Texts from the Ancient Tantra Collection
By: Cathy Cantwell, Robert Mayer

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The (rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum) contains many of the oldest examples of Tantric literature in Tibetan. It also contains many of the most important examples of Buddhist Tantric literature surviving in any language. Its contribution to Tibetan religion and culture over the last 1,200 years has been incalculable, and remains undiminished today. Yet, like most manuscript traditions of such great antiquity, centuries of accumulated scribal corruption have reduced them in a great many cases to near incomprehensibility, even for the most learned Tibetan lamas. The modern period has been a particularly challenging time for this great scriptural tradition, above all because the Chinese entry into Tibet led to the destruction of an estimated 95% of its extant witnesses. In this work, Cantwell and Mayer have begun the immense task of restoring these wonderful texts to their original form through textual criticism. The present scribal state of the texts, the surviving editions, and the various possible methods of restoring them through textual criticism are discussed. Editions of two important texts have been produced, which also consider features of the original compilation and their commentaries. This is intended to be a small contribution towards the eventual restoration of the entire tradition.

Light of Dawn: A Brief Biography of the Second Barway Dorje
By: Composed by Karma Tupten, translated from Tibetan by Yeshe Gyamtso

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The Light of Dawn is a biography of the Second Barway Dorje composed by his disciple and attendant, Karma Tupten, and translated from Tibetan into English by Yeshe Gyamtso. Karma Tupten first wrote this biography in 1958, but he was unable to retain the manuscript. He wrote it again in 1987, but the text was lost again. The current version of the Second Barway Dorjes biography was written in 2003 at the request of the Third Bardor Tulku Rinpoche and published in 2012 by Kunzang Palchen Ling.

Light of Kailash: A History of Zhang Zhung and Tibet, Volume One The Early Period
By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

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Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, former Professor of Tibetan and Mongolian Language and Literature at the University of Naples LOrientale, has dedicated his academic career to the study of Tibetan culture and has published a number of works, in particular, on its origin. In his findings, the cradle of Tibetan culture is to be looked for in the ancient realm of Zhang Zhung, with revered Mount Kailash as its center and heart, and in the Bn spiritual traditions which flourished within and spread from that kingdom. The Light of Kailash, through meticulous selection and a critical use and analysis of a vast array of literary and often unpublished sources, offers an open, daring, holistic, unbiased approach to the study of the cultural and spiritual heritage of Tibet, and to the understanding of the origin of this fascinating and endangered civilization.

Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire
By: J. Jeffrey Franklin

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Buddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of Buddhist practice within many traditions and keen interest in meditation and mindfulness. In The Lotus and the Lion, J. Jeffrey Franklin traces the historical and cultural origins of Western Buddhism, showing that the British Empire was a primary engine for curiosity about and then engagement with the Buddhisms that the British encountered in India and elsewhere in Asia. As a result, Victorian and Edwardian England witnessed the emergence of comparative religious scholarship with a focus on Buddhism, the appearance of Buddhist characters and concepts in literary works, the publication of hundreds of articles on Buddhism in popular and intellectual periodicals, and the dawning of syncretic religions that incorporated elements derived from Buddhism.

In this fascinating book, Franklin analyzes responses to and constructions of Buddhism by popular novelists and poets, early scholars of religion, inventors of new religions, social theorists and philosophers, and a host of social and religious commentators. Examining the work of figures ranging from Rudyard Kipling and D. H. Lawrence to H. P. Blavatsky, Thomas Henry Huxley, and F. Max Müller, Franklin provides insight into cultural upheavals that continue to reverberate into our own time. Those include the violent intermixing of cultures brought about by imperialism and colonial occupation, the trauma and self-reflection that occur when a Christian culture comes face-to-face with another religion, and the debate between spiritualism and materialism. The Lotus and the Lion demonstrates that the nineteenth-century encounter with Buddhism subtly but profoundly changed Western civilization forever.

Lotus Sutra: Saddharma Pundarika Sutra or the Lotus of the True Law

Lotus Sutra: Saddharma Pundarika Sutra or the Lotus of the True Law
By: Hendrik Kern

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Dutch scholar Hendrik Kern offers a rare translation of the Lotus Sutra directly from the Sanskrit. Rather than starting from the Chinese of Kumarajiva, Kern worked principally from a manuscript written on palm leaves in Nepal in 1039. The original was part of the collection of Dr. Daniel Wright at the University Library of Cambridge, England. In the present edition, Sanskrit terms are set with modern diacritical marks.

Love is Hope, CD
By: Children from Tibetan Children Village (Dharamsala)

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Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature
By: Karl Brunnholzl

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The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284–1339), propounded a unique synthesis of Yogacara, Madhyamaka, and the classical teachings on buddha nature. His work occupies an important position between its Indian predecessors and the later, often highly charged, debates in Tibet about rangtong ("self-emptiness") and shentong ("other-emptiness"). The Third Karmapa is widely renowned as one of the major proponents of the Tibetan shentong tradition. This book contains a collection of some of his main writings on buddha nature; the transition of ordinary deluded consciousness to enlightened wisdom; and the characteristics of buddhahood.

Though relying strictly on classical Indian sources, the Karmapa's texts are not mere scholarly documents. Their topics and styles bear great significance for practicing the sutrayana and the vajrayana as understood in the Kagyü tradition to the present day, thus making what is described in these texts a living experience.

Luminous Heart, Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, Snow Lion Publications, Hardcover, 2009, 484 Pages, $39.95

Mahamudra for the Modern World: An Unprecedented Training Course in the Pinnacle Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism (33 Audio CDs)
By: Reginald Ray

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What if you could learn the ultimate teachings of Tibetan Buddhism as they were meant to be received guided every step of the way by an experienced master? This practice, known as Mahamudra or "The Great Revelation," was once taught only to elite students in secluded monasteries and cloisters. Now renowned teacher Dr. Reginald Ray has created an unprecedented audio learning course to make this profoundly transformative path available to listeners everywhere with Mahamudra for the Modern World. Spanning 32 CDs and featuring meditations and insights never before available to a general audience, this extraordinary audio intensive includes: Body-based shamatha meditations to still the mind and set the foundation for exploring the immeasurable expanse of being; Vipashyana meditations that take you on a progressive path of inquiry into the nature of awareness itself; More than 40 guided meditations unfolded in a series of increasingly subtle and profound practices Mahamudra is revered in Tibetan Buddhism as the most direct route to seeing the world in all its transcendent beauty, power, and perfection. With his gift for distilling esoteric teachings for today's student, Dr. Ray has created a powerful training program for anyone seeking to engage in this life-altering journey, allowing us to discover this unsurpassed tradition for meeting ultimate realityand awakening to the boundless freedom that is our true nature.

Mahamudra Lineage Prayer (DVD) : Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Mahamudra Lineage Prayer (DVD)
By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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Presiding over the sangha of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, the North American seat of His Holiness the seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche teaches on the Mahamudra Lineage Prayer. This supplication invokes the blessings of the Karma Kagyu Lineage and outlines the complete path of practice according to this tradition. It is recited by all practitioners at the beginning of meditation sessions.

In the first talk Rinpoche gives a brief biography of each of the seventeen Karmapas. In the following talks, on the basis of the Lineage Prayer he gives instructions on the common and uncommon preliminaries, tranquility and insight meditation, and Mahamudra.

Because of its great importance Thrangu Rinpoche has taught many times on the subject of the Mahamudra Lineage Prayer. He was initially requested to teach it by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa because His Holiness felt it would help western students better understand the nature of the path.

Also seen in the recording of this weekend teaching are a refuge ceremony; a body, speech and mind offering; and the abbot of KTD, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, ceremonially presenting a khata to Thrangu Rinpoche.

Masters of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud: Pith instructions from the experiential transmission of Bonpo Dzogchen, transcribed and ed. by Carol Ermakova et al.

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Each master's heart teachings are printed alongside his full colour image. These reproductions of traditional tsakali initiation cards, painted in Tibet before the Chinese invasion, help the reader connect to the teachings in a direct and intimate way, and are an inspiring aid to Guru Yoga practice.

The Zhang Zhung Nyengyud is the most ancient Dzogchen cycle still practised today. It began with the primordial Buddha, Kuntu Zangpo, ran through a lineage of nine Dersheg-Buddhas, then through Masters from the Deva and Naga realms, arriving in the realm of humans in the country of Tagzig, from where it passed into Zhang Zhung and Tibet in prehistoric times. It has never been interrupted nor have the teachings been concealed; they are still very much alive today, a great source of unmodified Dzogchen.

The informative Introduction by Dmitry Ermakov (author of Bө and Bn) examines some key points of the Dzogchen path, and takes a quick look at different types of Bn and the dissemination of Yungdrung Bon in Zhang Zhung and Tibet against the backdrop of Central and Inner Asian history. The question of the origins of Bnpo and Buddhist Dzogchen is also touched upon, and in particular, the lineage of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud is discussed in detail alongside a unique and verified lineage tree diagram drawn up with the help of Yongdzin Rinpoche himself, Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung and Geshe Namdak Nyima. This readily understood diagram enables readers to see how the teachings of this unbroken lineage have come down to us through the ages.

This book, Masters of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud, is a rare treasure, both for those new to Dzogchen and to experienced practitioners alike, because Yongdzin Rinpoche's lively translation and comments put these teachings in the context of our modern times, helping students to integrate this ancient wisdom with their daily lives. As the living spiritual descendent of these Dzogchen Masters, Lopn Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche carries the live current of this ancient transmission, delivering these pith instructions directly to the reader in a powerful and accessible way.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama: Infinite Compassion

Masters of Wisdom: His Holiness The Dalai Lama: Infinite Compassion for an Imperfect World
By: Alan Jacobs (Editor)

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Masters of Wisdom: His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a jewelled casket of spiritual wisdom and practice to promote world peace and global happiness, love and compassion. The Dalai Lama writes clearly and concisely in a delightful, measured prose that inspires and uplifts everyone who reads it in whatever part of the world. His spiritual advice is profound, practical and helpful - a true panacea for the sufferings of a troubled world. His writings transcend all differences of religion and convey his eternal message of the best way to attain universal happiness and peace. The anthology covers the major themes of this great man's teaching, arranged in 25 chapters. Among them are Science and Religion, Compassion and the Individual, The Pillars of World Peace, Personal Responsibility, Buddhist Teaching and Opening the Eye of Awareness. You will also discover here His Holiness' learned advice on Caring for the Earth and his controversial thoughts on Tibet. The book includes a thorough Biography and an authoritative Introduction as well as a specially written foreword by his Holiness.

Maya Yoga: Longchenpa's Finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment

Maya Yoga: Longchenpa's Finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment
By: Keith Dowman

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Maya Yoga is the title of Keith Dowman's translation of "finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment" written by the inimitable Longchen Rabjampa. In the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, this text is considered second to none in its power to evoke the nature of the nondual reality of the Dzogchen view. With poetic mastery, Longchenpa provides the precepts that can instantly illuminate the buddha-reality that is our ordinary everyday experience. He asserts that we are presently under the spell of magical illusion and that by recognizing it we are instantaneously released from a conceptual cage into enchanting reality which is pure pleasure itself. That reality is maya, apparent yet absent, and the recognition of it in that state of natural relaxation is maya yoga. In this renowned atiyoga manual, we find the key to the natural mystical state that Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, constantly evokes.

Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice
By: B. Alan Wallace

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Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind's role in the natural world. Raising profound questions about human nature, free will, and experience versus dogma, Wallace challenges the claim that consciousness is no more than an emergent property of the brain with little relation to universal events. Rather, he maintains that the observer is essential to measuring quantum systems and that mental phenomena (however conceived) influence brain function and behavior.

Wallace embarks on a two-part mission: to restore and then transcend human nature. Part I explains the value of skepticism in Buddhism and science and the difficulty of merging their experiential methods of inquiry. Yet Wallace emphasizes that Buddhist views on human nature and the possibility of free will free us from the metaphysical constraints of scientific materialism. He then explores the radical empiricism inspired by William James and applies it to the four schools of Indian Buddhist philosophy and the Great Perfection school of Buddhism. Since Buddhism begins with the assertion that ignorance lies at the root of all suffering and the path to freedom is reached through knowledge, Buddhist practice can be viewed as a progression from agnosticism (not knowing) to gnosticism (knowing), acquired through exceptional mental health, mindfulness, and introspection. Wallace discusses these topics in detail, identifying similarities and differences between scientific and Buddhist understanding, and concludes with an explanation of shamatha and vipashyana and their potential for fathoming the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness.

Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss: The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead

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A distillation of the acclaimed English translation of a revered Tibetan classic.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist writings in the West and one of the most inspirational and compelling texts in world literature.
In Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss, Graham Coleman, the editor of Viking’s acclaimed unabridged translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, collects the most beautifully written passages, ones that draw out the central perspectives most relevant to modern experience: What is death? How can we help those who are dying? And how can we come to terms with bereavement? New to this edition are Coleman’s introduction and his brilliant and incisive essays, which preface each chapter and provide the seeker entrée to these ancient insights. With introductory commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a highly praised translation by Gyurme Dorje, this succinct but authoritative volume will convey the profundity of the original to those hungry for a better understanding of this life and the next.

Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss: The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead (MP3 CDs)

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Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything
Deborah Schoeberlein

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Mindfulness has gone mainstream, and author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in education. By showing teachers how to tune into what's happening, inside and around them, she offers fresh, straightforward approaches to training attention and generating caring both in and outside of the classroom. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness plants the seed for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. The book follows a teacher from morning to night on a typical school day, at home, during the commute, and before, during, and after class. This book is perfect for teachers of all kinds: schoolteachers, religious educators, coaches, parents-anyone who teaches anything.

Mindfulness Meditations for Tranquility and Insight with Dr. Miles Neale

Mindfulness Meditations for Tranquility and Insight with Dr. Miles Neale (CD)

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Inner Splendor presents the first of a series of Guided Buddhist Meditation albums with Dr. Miles Neale, a contemplative psychotherapist and expert on the psychology of meditation. In Mindfulness Meditations for Tranquility and Insight, Dr. Neale introduces the ancient Buddhist practice of mindfulness, used for over millennia to refine awareness and foster introspective learning. Mindfulness has two aims: first, to calm and center the mind from its usual state of distraction and dullness; and second, to develop self-reflective knowledge of negative mental habits including obsession, repulsion and misperception. It is this powerful combination of wakeful tranquility and contemplative insight that leads to lasting freedom and happiness.

For those eager to begin a meditation practice of their own, Track 1 offers clear and concise instructions on how to set up and maintain a meditation practice at home. Tracks 2 and 3 provide guided meditations of mindfulness of breathing in brief and longer versions respectively. Track 4 provides ways of transforming difficulties encountered during mindfulness into opportunities for deepening one's practice. Finally, Track 5 offers a guided meditation on the traditional Buddhist framework of the "Four Applications of Mindfulness", to help students further refine the flexibility and precision of their awareness and arrive at new realizations about their own mental processes.

This new and exciting album represents years of Dr. Neale's investigation into meditation and psychotherapy and promises to be an important learning tool for those interested in discovering for themselves the transformative power of mindfulness meditation.

Mindfulness Workbook: A Beginner's Guide to Overcoming Fear and Embracing Compassion
By: Thomas Roberts

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Mindfulness is a powerful antidote to stress, anxiety and panic, chronic pain, depression, obsessive thinking, out-of-control emotions, and many other physical and mental health conditions. This ancient Buddhist technique can help anyone who struggles with fears, worries, and distractions refocus on the present moment and live happily, here and now.

The Mindfulness Workbook is a step-by-step instruction book that guides you through simple practices that enable you to experience mindfulness not as a distant experience or concept, but as an attainable state of being in the world. You will discover the effectiveness of breath work, mindful eating, and thought-watching, and begin reaping the benefits of mindfulness right away. Over time, you will begin to notice that these small changes can bring about a bigger transformation, enhancing your sense of fulfillment and calm.

Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J.

Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J.

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Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The Italian missionary was most notably the first European to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan scholars and monks—and from a profound study of its primary texts. while there, Desideri was an eyewitness to some of the most tumultuous events in Tibet’s history, of which he left us a vivid and dramatic account.

Desideri explores key Buddhist concepts including emptiness and rebirth, together with their philosophical and ethical implications, with startling detail and sophistication. This book also includes an introduction situating the work in the context of Desideri’s life and the intellectual and religious milieu of eighteenth-century Catholicism.

Mountain Dragon: A New Myth of the Enlightened Feminine: Aspiration
By: Bradley Clemmons

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A dark, evil force, able to strike with overwhelming power has descended into the western deserts of the Middle Kingdom. With one blow he has shattered the political hopes of two great nations. One little child survives, a child who has the potential and who will one day have the strength to make all the warring factions of this region stop and take notice.

This riveting saga spans lifetimes, weaving spirituality, magic, and the bonds of love and karma. In this opening volume as we meet our heroine the reader is propelled with her on a journey of mastery and enlightenment.

National Imaginings and Ethnic Tourism in Lhasa

National Imaginings and Ethnic Tourism in Lhasa, Tibet: Postcolonial Identities amongst Contemporary Tibetans
By:Daisuke Murakami

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Necklace of Zi By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

Necklace of Zi
By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

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The Necklace of Zi (gZi yi phreng ba) is the revised and extended text of a lecture given by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu in 1975 to the annual meeting of young Tibetans in Switzerland. Some years later, The Necklace of Zi was published in Dharamsala in both Tibetan and English, and immediately provoked great interest for a completely new approach to the history and culture of Tibet. With remarkable authority, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu emphasized the originality and specificity of his peoples culture. Citing ancient texts but also using illuminating examples from his education in Tibet, he refuted the almost universally accepted theory which reduced Tibetan civilisation to a Himalayan appendage of Indian culture. For that prior theory, pre-Buddhist Tibet did not even possess its own form of writing. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu traces back the emergence of his countrys culture nearly 4,000 years, and identifies the original Tibetan system of writing in the ancient mar (smar) alphabet, from which the present cursive characters (dbu med) will have evolved. Besides the analysis of the Tibetan history and language, and a short chronicle of the pre-Buddhist Bon, this text is dealing in a simple but very meaningful way with the crucial topic of the harmonious union of Dharma and politics.

Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting
By: David P. Jackson

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The Newar painting style (Beri) in Tibet, which originated in Nepal, is the most recent of two early Indian-inspired painting styles to take hold in Tibet. The style flourished in Tibet for about four centuries, from the late 12th to the early 17th century. Alone among styles, it was adopted universally across Tibet for a century at its height (1360-1460). Later in its development, some of the best-known thangkas in this style were commissioned by abbots of Ngor Monastery, an important Sakyapa monastery in Tsang Province.

Most previous scholars linked the paintings in this style exclusively with the Sakyapa religious school and Tsang Province, if not with the monastery of Ngor. In addition to exploring the powerful aesthetic appeal of the Beri style, one of the main goals of this publication is to overcome the erroneous limiting of the style to the Sakyapa and to demonstrate its full historical and religious extent. Another main goal is to introduce a method for analyzing structure and lineages in Tibetan paintings.

Ngondro: The Foundational Practices, Part 1 The Four Thoughts MP3 CD By: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Ngondro: The Foundational Practices, Part 1 The Four Thoughts MP3 CD
By: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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Please note: The teachings contained in An Introduction to the Foundational Practices with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche are included on this MP3 CD.

In the Tibetan tradition, the foundational practices, known in Tibet as ngondro, are used to prepare the mind for the spiritual path. These meditations have been taught for centuries, handed down from teacher to student in an unbroken lineage of practice.

The foundational practices cover the core elements of the Buddhas teachings. Ngondro: The Foundational Practices of Tibetan Buddhism presents in-depth teachings on these essential meditations by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Included here are Mingyur Rinpoches explanations of the first part of these practices, known as the outer ngondro. The outer ngondro contains a series of four contemplations on the precious human birth, death and impermanence, the law of karma, and the suffering of samsara. These contemplations are designed to help redirect the mind away from thought patterns that create confusion and suffering, toward the state of liberation. Also included on this disc is an introduction to the foundational practices that shows how these meditations relate to the cultivation of awareness and insight.

Ngondro: The Foundational Practices, Part 2

Ngondro: The Foundational Practices, Part 2 The Unique Foundational Practices MP3 CD
By: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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In the Tibetan tradition, the foundational practices, known in Tibet as ngondro, are used to prepare the mind for the spiritual path. These meditations have been taught for centuries, handed down from teacher to student in an unbroken lineage of practice.

The foundational practices cover the core elements of the Buddhas teachings. Ngondro: The Foundational Practices of Tibetan Buddhism presents in-depth teachings on these essential meditations by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

Included here are Mingyur Rinpoches explanations of the second part of these practices, known as the inner ngondro, or unique ngondro. The inner ngondro contains a series of four meditative practices: refuge and bodhichitta, the mantra and visualization of Vajrasattva, mandala offering, and guru yoga. These meditations purify destructive patterns and obscurations, and help the practitioner connect directly with the enlightened qualities of buddha nature.

Nothing and Everything - The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde: 1942 - 1962
By: Ellen Pearlman

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In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the worldand life itselfbecame a legitimate artists tool, aligning with Zen Buddhisms emphasis on enlightenment at any moment and living in the now. Simultaneously and independently, parallel movements were occurring in Japan, as artists there, too, strove to break down artistic boundaries.

Nothing and Everything brings these heady times into focus. Author Ellen Pearlman meticulously traces the spread of Buddhist ideas into the art world through the classes of legendary scholar D. T. Suzuki as well as those of his most famous student, composer and teacher John Cage, from whose teachings sprouted the art movement Fluxus and the happenings of the 1960s. Pearlman details the interaction of these American artists with the Japanese Hi Red Center and the multi-installation group Gutai. Back in New York, abstract-expressionist artists founded The Club, which held lectures on Zen and featured Japans first abstract painter, Saburo Hasegawa. And in the literary world, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg were using Buddhism in their search for new forms and visions of their own. These multiple journeys led to startling breakthroughs in artistic and literary styleand influenced an entire generation. Filled with rare photographs and groundbreaking primary source material, Nothing and Everything is the definitive history of this pivotal time for the American arts.

Old Tibetan Annals: An Annotated Translation of Tibet's First History

Old Tibetan Annals: An Annotated Translation of Tibet's First History
By: Brandon Dotson

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The Old Tibetan Annals contain Tibet´s oldest extant history. Primarily a bureaucratic register of events, it is the single most reliable source for the history of the first half of the Tibetan Empire (c. 600-850 CE). This record was maintained more or less contemporaneously with the events it describes, with entries added at the end of each year from 650 to 764. In each yearly entry, the Old Tibetan Annals record information such as the summer and winter residences of the Tibetan emperor, where the summer and winter political councils were convened, who convened them, and what measures were taken. Visits from foreign dignitaries, military engagements, dynastic marriages, the birth of a future sovereign, deaths of important figures, and the performance of funeral rites for the royal family are also recorded. This volume offers an annotated translation of the Old Tibetan Annals along with a transliteration of the Tibetan text and photographic reproductions of the original Dunhuang documents. A long introduction serves to place the Old Tibetan Annals within its cultural and historical context by exploring the history of the Tibetan Empire, as well as its political geography and administrative practices. A set of appendices follows the translation, of which an index of the place names mentioned in the Annals is especially useful. The indices and a glossary render the Annals easily accessible, and the photographic reproductions give scholars access to the original text.

On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969
By: Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, and Tanzen Lhundrup

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Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. In this incident, hundreds of villagers formed a mob led by a young nun who was said to be possessed by a deity associated with the famous warrior-king Gesar. In their rampage the mob attacked, mutilated, and killed county officials and local villagers as well as People's Liberation Army troops. This groundbreaking book, the first on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, revisits the Nyemo incident, which has long been romanticized as the epitome of Tibetan nationalist resistance against China. Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, and Tanzen Lhundrup demonstrate that far from being a spontaneous battle for independence, this violent event was actually part of a struggle between rival revolutionary groups and was not ethnically based. On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet proffers a sober assessment of human malleability and challenges the tendency to view every sign of unrest in Tibet in ethno-nationalist terms.

One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet
By: W. D. Shakabpa (Author), D. F. Maher (Translator)

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Drawing on a vast array of historical and biographical sources, this volume elaborates Tibetan political history, arguing that Tibet has long been an independent nation, and that the 1950 incursion by the Chinese was an invasion of a sovereign country. The author situates Tibet's relations with a series of Chinese, Manchurian, and Mongolian empires in terms of the preceptor-patron relationship, an essentially religious connection in which Tibetan religious figures offered spiritual instruction to the contemporaneous emperor or other militarily powerful figure in exchange for protection and religious patronage. Simultaneously, this volume serves as an introduction to many aspects of Tibetan culture, society, and especially religion. The book includes a compendium of biographies of the most significant figures in Tibet's past.
Brill Academic Publishers, Hardcover, 2 Volume set, 1,344 Pages

Oral Commentaries By Drikung Kagy Teachers In San Francisco

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This is a marvelous book of teachings transcribed faithfully from teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism in the Drikung Kagyu lineage given in San Francisco by His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, and Ontul Rinpoche. These are commentaries on the Refuge Vow Ceremony, Amitabha Buddha, Vajrakilaya, the Heart Sutra and its relationship to Calm-Abiding and Mindfulness meditations, Lojong (otherwise known as Seven Point Mind Training, and Medicine Buddha.

Ornament of the Thought of Nagarjuna of Nagarjuna Clarifying the Core of Madhyamaka
By: Gendun Chophel

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From Chgyal Namkhai Norbus Preface:

Gendn Chphel, eminent scholar of 20th-century Tibet, was a master of both the traditional curricula of his time the five branches of Buddhist wisdom and the five subjects of Tibetan culture and of numerous modern subjects in such fields as philosophy, language, and history. I need not detail his accomplishments and life history here, as these are well known from other sources. The Ludrub Gonggyen (kLu sgrub dgongs rgyan) clearly demonstrates his profound knowledge of both Sutra and Tantra and his precise understanding of the essence of the teachings of Buddha and the thought of Nagarjuna. Careful study and analysis of this work whether by scholars who approach it with impartial minds, practitioners who seek understanding of the Buddhas teachings, or those engaged in research will lead to an understanding of the essential meaning of the Buddhas teachings.

Path of Compassion: Stories from the Buddha's Life

Path of Compassion: Stories from the Buddha's Life
By: Thich Nhat Hanh

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Path of Compassion is a collection of key stories from Thich Nhat Hanhs classic Old Path White Clouds, a book celebrating its 20th publishing anniversary this year. It tells the fascinating life story of Prince Siddhartha, who left his family and renounced his carefully guarded life, and after many years of spiritual seeking became the Buddha, the Enlightened One. Far more than the description of an unusual life story, it serves as an enjoyable, compelling, and informative introduction to Buddhism by conveying its most important teachings in a compact and accessible format.
Thich Nhat Hanhs ability to show the Buddha as a person who deals with the same life issues as we do is unique and unsurpassed. Written in language accessible to readers of all ages and levels of experience Thich Nhat Hanh combines the description of the major life stages of the Buddha with his most important teachings. Reaching far beyond the biography genre Path of Compassion is a highly readable and informative introduction to Buddhism.

Path Strewn with Flowers and Bones: A Memoir with the Reflections of Tulku Sherdor

Path Strewn with Flowers and Bones: A Memoir with the Reflections of Tulku Sherdor

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An emaciated yogi spending years in isolated retreat cabins in cold northern climes, often without electric power or running water...

Counsel to America’s most prestigious litigation firm, hurtling across the skies in a leased jet to put out legal brushfires, with billions of dollars at stake...

A reincarnate Lama swathed in maroon and gold robes atop a throne of honor amidst thousands of monks in a magnificent temple in the remote Tibetan hinterland of Golog...

A Human Rights activist struggling to free indentured slaves in the sweltering jungles of western Nepal...

Translator, attendant and heart disciple for a dozen years to a true King of Crazy Wisdom....

Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives

Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
By: Thich Nhat Hanh

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In his travels around the country and the world, Zen master and international best selling author Thich Nhat Hanh witnessed a growing unhappiness among the many people he encountered. He saw the hectic pace of our day-to-day lives taking a toll on our health and well-being. In response, the renowned teacher sat down to write Peace Is Every Breath, a book that makes the core teachings of Buddha accessible for everyone. In this jewel of a book, Thich Nhat Hanh does not suggest that we escape from reality and put our busy lives on hold. Far from it. Instead, he provides the insight and tools we need to incorporate the practice of mindfulness into our every waking moment. Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how we can transcend the mad rush of our days and discover within the here and now our own innate ability to experience inner peace and happiness.

Offering personal anecdotes, meditations, and advice for mindfully connecting with our present experience, Thich Nhat Hanh guides us around potential pitfalls along the way. We do not need to escape reality to harness the joy and peace that is possible with every breath we takethe power of mindfulness can heal us from the suffering caused by the many stresses that surround us. Including original calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Breath is a timely book filled with timeless wisdom and practical advice that is destined to become a classic.

Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality,

Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy
By: Christian Coseru

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Situated about 106 kilometers from Aurangabad in Maharashtra, Ajanta rock cut caves are creations of about 700 years, roughly from 200 BC to AD 525. This glorious Buddhist art of the Deccan was discovered in 1819, and given a World Heritage status by UNESCO in 1983. The most striking characteristic of Ajanta art is that architecture, sculpture and painting--the three expressions of fine art--all articulate at one place. Ajanta paintings give us graphic insights into the history of Buddhism in India. The caves also help us reconstruct the interrelationship between such centers in Central Asia and China, as also those in Buddhist countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, which have similar specimens, but from a later period

Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha Nature of Grasses and Trees

Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha Nature of Grasses and Trees
By: Lambert Schmithausen

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The present study is a presentation of the problems on the issue of the sentience of plants in early Buddhism.

Poetic Mantras
By: Ma Chang-sheng

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Ma Chang-sheng uses the guqin to chant poetic mantras, washing away the hustle and bustle. He uses Buddhist song as the basis for his creative work and fusing it with a poetic sensibility, giving his poetic mantras a unique aesthetic. Ancient sutras combined with newly-created gathas or Buddhist poetry create a different kind of mood. When the chanting and singing begins, what you hear is contentment and freedom from care.

Poetical vision of the Buddha's former lives

Poetical Vision of the Buddha's Former Lives: Seventeen Legends from Haribhatta's Jatakamala (With English Introduction, main text in Sanskrit)

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The present book contains the first Indian edition of 17 (out of 34) legends from the Garland of Birth-Stories (Jatakamala) by the Kashmirian poet Haribhatta who lived not later than 400 CE. His composition, written in the prosimetric campu style, is a worthy successor to Aryasura's Jatakamala. An exemplary representative of the chaste style (vaidarbhi ritih), it enchants the reader by its perfectly lucid Sanskrit, the great variety of metres (29) and superb prose sections, which can be regarded as forerunners of Dandin's and Bana's prose novels. The legends, which are meant to illustrate the six moral perfections (paramita), viz. giving, morality, forbearance, striving, meditation and wisdom, are chosen not only from the rich store-house of Buddhist narrative literature, but occasionally also from other sources, e.g., the Mahabharata or even folk tales. Until 1973, Haribhatta's work was known only from its medieval Tibetan translation. Between 1973 and 1976, Michael Hahn discovered ten of its legends in anonymous manuscripts from Nepal. They were published (in Latin script) in Japan in 2007. In 2004, Michael Hahn got access to another fragmentary Sanskrit manuscript that permitted him to include seven more legends in the present Indian edition. An English translation is currently being prepared.

A CD containing colour photographs of the oldest manuscript of Haribhatta's Jatakamala from Nepal is attached to book