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Alexandra David-Neel, Portrait of an Adventurer
By: Ruth Middleton
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This unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868û1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime of more than one hundred years, she was an acclaimed operatic soprano, a political anarchist, a religious reformer, an intrepid explorer who traveled in Tibet for fourteen years, a scholar of Buddhism, and the author of more than forty books. But perhaps the most intriguing of all her adventures was the spiritual search that led her from a youthful interest in socialism and Freemasonry to the teachings of the great sages of India and culminated in her initiation into the secret tantric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This book reveals the penetrating insight and courage of a woman who surmounted physical, intellectual, and social barriers to pursue her spiritual quest.
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Among Tibetan Texts
By: Smith, Gene
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History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau
E. Gene Smith ran the Library of Congress' Tibetan Text Publication Project of the United States Public Law 480 (PL480)- an effort to salvage and reprint the Tibetan literature that had been saved by the exile community or by members of the Tibetan speaking communities of Sikkim, Bhutan , India, and Nepal. Smith wrote prefaces to these reprinted books to help clarify and contextualize the particular Tibetan texts: the prefaces served as rough orientations to a poorly understood body of foreign literature.
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Apparitions of the Self; The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary
By: Gyatso Janet
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The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary- Apparitions of the Self , is a groudbreaking investigation into what is known in Tibetan as " secret biography." an exceptional, rarely studied literary genre that presents a personal exploration of intimate religious experiences. In this volume Janet Gyatso focuses on the outstanding pair of secret biographies by the famed Tibetan visionary, Jigme Lingpa(1730-1798). whose poetic and self-conscious writings are as much about the nature of his own identity,memory and the undecidabilities of autobiographical truth as they are narrations of the actual content of his experiences.
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Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
By: Palden Gyatso
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“My story is not a glamorous one of high lamas and exotic ritual, but of how a simple monk succeeded in surviving the destructive forces of a totalitarian ideology.”
These are the words of Palden Gyatso, and his story in an unforgettable journey into the heart of Tibet and an enduring testimony to the strength of the human spirit and its quest for freedom.
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Autobiography of Jamgon Kongtrul: A Gem of Many Colors
By: Jamgon Kongtrul
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A Gem of Many Colors
This much-awaited first English translation of Jamgon Kongtrul's autobiography is refreshingly real. In addition to its inspirational value, kongtrul's story is a rich source of information on the religion, culture, and political climate of Tibet during his times.
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye (1813-1900) was one of the most influential figures and prolific writers in the Tibetan Buddhist world.
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Before He Was Buddha: The Life of Siddhartha
By: Hammalawa Saddhatissa
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This personal portrayal of Buddha presents him first as a boy named Siddhartha, then as a man who leaves home in search of truth, and finally as an elderly teacher. Unlike reverential biographies that treat him as a distant, divine figure, Before He Was Buddha presents a person in search of the secrets of life.
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Biographical Scripture of King Asoka
By: Rongxi, Li, Tr.
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In spite of the legendary style of the presentation, this biographical work, of which the original Sanskrit text is little known, gives accounts of the major events in the life of King Asoka that are historically verifiable through comparative studies of reliable written records and arch'ological findings. Although the exact date of the original text is unascertainable, it may be said that it was composed no earlier than 184 B.C.
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Biographies of Rechung-pa : The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography
Peter Roberts
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Rechung-pa (1084-1161) is a Tibetan folk-hero whose biography is one of the most well-known literary works in Tibet. This book traces the life story of the student of the famous teacher Milarepa using rare and little-known manuscripts. The author compares significant episodes in the life of Rechung-pa as portrayed in a succession of texts and thus demonstrates the evolution of Rechung-pa's biography. This is the first survey of the surviving literature which includes a detailed analysis of their dates, authorship and interrelationships. It shows how Rechung-pa was increasingly portrayed as a rebellious, volatile and difficult pupil, as a lineage from a fellow-pupil prospered to become dominant in Tibet.
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Biography of Eighty Four Saints, Sanskrit and Tibetan Text
By: Abhayadatta Sri
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Biography of Eighty Four Saints(Mahasiddhas), Grub Thob brGyad Cu rTsa bZhi'i Lo rGyud, Acarya Abhayadatta Sri, Hardcover, CIHTS, $34.95
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Biography of the Great Yogi Milarepa
By: Tsang Nyon Heruka
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rNal 'Byor Gyi dWang Chug Dam Pa rJe bTsun Mi La Ras Pa'i rNam Thar Pa, Biography of the Great Yogi Milarepa, The Guide to Deliverance and Omniscience, Tsang Nyon Heruka, Edited by Ramesh Chandra Negi, Hardcover, CIHTS, 479 pp. $29.95
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Blazing Splendor
By: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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With unsurpassed honesty and humility Tulku Urgyen offers an intimate glimpse into the remarkable reality of a tulku (a reincarnated master) as well as an in-depth portrait of the lost culture of old Tibet. Intimate in tone, Tulku Urgyen originally shared these tales with his closest Western students, over more than a decade. Here they have been organized into a sweeping account that describes a world where miracles, mystery, and deep insight are the order of the day. From a fresh, eye-opening perspective he describes the lives of some of the most realized and genuine spiritual practitioners of 20th century Tibet.
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Book of Tibetan Elders
By: Johnson, Sandy
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The Life Stories and Wisdom of the Great Spiritual Masters of Tibet
Sandy Johnson traveled the world to gather the life stories and teachings of Tibetan doctors, the state oracle, the great women masters -- the entire range of the culture. here her journey unfolds in vivid details, as she shares the powerful stories and remarkable secrets of teachers and doctors, told in their own voices. The Book of Tibetan Elders is an unprecedented chronicle of some of the world's most precious wisdom, and a rare documentation of a group of spiritual teachers on the brink of extinction.
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Buddha
By: Karen Armstrong
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Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history? Armstrong tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha in this engrossing philosophical biography.
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Buddha from Dolpo
By: Cyrus Stearns
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"A pioneering work on the life and ideas of one of the most important and controversial, yet little understood, figures in Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history."-Roger Jackson, Carleton College
The Buddha from Dolpo examines the life and thought of the Tibetan Buddhist master, Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361). Known as "The Buddha from Dolpo," he was one of the most important and original thinkers in Tibetan history, and perhaps the greatest expert on the tantric teachings of the Kalacakra or "Wheel of Time.
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Buddha's Lions, The Lives of The Eighty - Four Siddhas
By: Abhayadatta
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From farmers and wood-gatherers to royal ministers, scholars, and kings, the great siddhas, bearers of enlightened knowledge, came from widely divergent backgrounds. Yet each found within their way of life the keys to realization. Abhayadatta's account of eighty-four great siddhas offers insight into the Vajrayana, the path that transforms ordinary experiences into oportunities for awakening.
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Buddha: Story of an Awakened Life
By: David Kherdian
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Buddha: Story of an Awakened Life
By: David Kherdianle Way,” philosophy. It sparked controversy immediately upon its publication and continues to do so today.
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Buddhist Masters of Enchantment: The lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas
By: Keith Dowman & Robert Beer
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There is no better illustration of the nature of Tantric Buddhism than the lives of the masters who founded it. These beautifully iilustrated stories of the extraordinary men and women who attained enlightenment and magical powers by disregarding convention and penetrating to the core of life show us a way through human into spontaneous and free state of oneness with the divine. Tradition holds that hte lives of the Mahasiddhas are paradigms for different processes of psychic awakening.
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Chariot of the Fortunate: The Life of the First Yongey Mingyur
By: Je Tukyi Dorje, Surmang Tendzin Rinpoche & Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
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This fantastic, outrageous, and beautiful biography of the First Yongey Mingyur Dorje, written down by Je Tukyi Dorje & Surmang Tendzin Rinpoche, describes the visionary inner life of this great treasure revealer showing us wisdom, kindness, and ability.
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Chogyam Trungpa; His Life and Vision
By: Fabrice Midal
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This biography presents a wealth of anecdotes from Trungpa's life, excerpts from unpublished talks, reminiscences by those closest to him, and facts from the archive that preserves his legacy—all making the book a treasure chest of insights and teachings not found in any other book published so far.
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Dalai Lama, My Son
By: Diki Tsering
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A mother’s story
This is the story of a remarkable woman as she recounts in her own words what it was like to realize her son was being received as a living Buddha, to watch him grow physically and spiritually and finally to see him become one of the most recognized people in the world.
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Dalai Lama; A Biography
By: Claude Levenson
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Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.
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Dalai Lamas: A Visual History
By: Martin Brauen
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To coincide with the celebrations surrounding the 70th birthday of the Dalai Lama and the exhibition to be held at the Ethnographic Museum of Zurich University (Volkerkundemuseum der Universitat Zurich) in July, Serindia will be publishing a history of all the Dalai Lamas, each portrayed in text and illustrations. Essays contributed by sixteen authors illuminate the institutions of reincarnation and enthronement of the Dalai Lamas, interregna, Panchen Lamas, Western views of the Dalai Lamas, and relations between the Dalai Lamas and the Chinese.
The lives and work of the Dalai Lamas are illustrated with numerous and largely unpublished sources, including thangkas, statues of individual Dalai Lamas, paintings of the Potala, gifts of various Dalai Lamas to high dignitaries, such as Chinese emperors and Russian tsars, and photographs of the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas from Tibetan, British, and Indian archives.
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dGe-’dun-chos-’phel, Biography of the 20th Century Tibetan Scholar
By: She-rab-rgya-mtsho / Mengel
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The savant dGe-'dun-chos-'phel (1902-1951) was the first "modern" scholar of Tibet. He was the first who not only completed a traditional Tibetan education, but who also was courageous enough to leave the monastic society, travel abroad, learn several new languages and deepen his knowledge by collorating with scholars of different nationalities. dGe-'dun-chos-'phel was renowned in Tibet as a brilliant scholar, a talented artist, a highly gifted poet, an excellent translator, and a skillful dialectician.
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Divine Madman
By: Dowman Keith, tr.
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This is the "secret biography" of one of Tibet's foremost saints, the Buddha Drukpa Kunley. Appearing in the spiritual lineage established by Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa, Drukpa Kunley was recognized as an incarnation of the great Mahasiddha, Saraha. He is greatly loved by the people of Tibet as a "Crazy Wise" teacher and enlightened Master whose outrageous behavior and ribald humor were intended to awaken common people and yogis alike from the sleep of religious dogmatism and egoic self-possession.
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Dzalendara and Sakarchupa
By: Holmes, Ken ed.
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Stories from long, long ago of the former lives of the Gyalwa Karmapa.
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Empowered Masters: Tibetan Wall Paintings of Mahasiddhas at Gyantse
By: Ulrich von Schroeder
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Some of the most important Tibetan Buddhist monuments to have survived the ravages of history are the temples and chapels at Gyantse in Southern Tibet. In a chapel on the upper floor of the Palkhor Tsuglagkhang there exist superb wall paintings of the legendary eighty-four mahasiddhas – tantric adepts who, through effort and practice, have attained perfection and are endowed with extraordinary powers.
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Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition
By: Willis, Janice
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-HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER in any Western language are the sacred biographies of six great tantric meditators from the Gelukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. These life stories-or namtar-are actually tales of liberation. Part of a distinct tradition in Tibetan Buddhism, they are meant not only to inspire but also to instruct others on the path to enlightenment.
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Falling off the Roof of the World, The Autobiography of the Venerable Lama Dudjom Dorjee
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This book tellls the inspiring life story of the Venerable Lama Dudjom Dorjee. It starts with tales from his playful nomadic childhood in Tibet and continues with his harrowing escape from the Chinese Communist invasion to Nepal and his life within the refugee communities of India. It explores how he came to study the Buddha-dharma, his interactions with enlightened masters, and why he came to the Unites States as a representative of one of Tibet’s oldest and most sacred lineages.
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Four Lamas of Dolpo, Autobiographies of Four Tibetan Lamas (16-18th century)
By: Snellgrove, D.L.
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FOUR LAMAS OF DOLPO
Autobiographies of Four Tibetan Lamas (16-18th century)
INTRODUCTION & TRANSLATIONS
-This volume presents in English translation the autobiographies of four Tibetan Lamas in the land of Dolpo, which was part of Western Tibet until the end of the 18th century. Three of them were born in the 16th century, and one in the 17th. In every case the substance of these biographies was dictated by the lamas themselves, in response to the entreaties of their disciples.
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Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation
By: Glenn Mullin
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This book vividly brings to life the myth and succession of all 14 Dalai Lamas in one volume for the first time. The book contains a chapter on each Dalai Lama (except Dalai Lamas 9-12, who are covered in one chapter). Each chapter opening features an illustration of the Dalai Lama who is the subject of that chapter. Mullin has also included characteristic excerpts from the Dalai Lamas' teachings, poetry, and other writings that illuminate the principles of Tibetan Buddhism expressed in their lives.
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Freedom in Exile
By: Dalai Lama
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A simple and powerful autobiography. The Dalai Lama's story of exile must serves of course, as a vital historical witness, not only to inhumanity but to compassion as well, not only to betrayal and-treachery but to generosity and faithfulness. '
Angeles Times Book Review
" Compelling.
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Garland of Immortal Wish-Fulfilling Trees The Palyul Tradition of Nyingmapa
By: Tsering Lama Jampal Zangpo
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In the snowy land of Tibet, six great mother monasteries uphold the doctrine of the Great Secret Nyingnapa. In the east, the principal monastery of these six is the glorious and powerful Palyul. This book presents a comprehensive explanation of the extraordinary Palyul tradition and the lives of the lineage holders.
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Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts, Volume One
By: Nakamura, Hajime
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A detailed historical account of the life of the Buddha. Drawing upon years of experience and research on the oldest, most reliable texts, Nakamura creates a vivid, chronological account of the life of Sakyamuni. Beginning with the social context in India at the time of the Buddha's birth and taking the reader through all the stages of his life, Nakamura carefully considers myth and history, engaging in a thorough analysis of the relevant textual evidence.
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Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts, Volume Two
By: Nakamura, Hajime
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A detailed historical account of the life of the Buddha. Drawing upon years of experience and research on the oldest, most reliable texts, Nakamura creates a vivid, chronological account of the life of Sakyamuni. Beginning with the social context in India at the time of the Buddha's birth and taking the reader through all the stages of his life, Nakamura carefully considers myth and history, engaging in a thorough analysis of the relevant textual evidence.
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Great Image; The Life Story of Vairochana the Translator
By: Ani Jinba Palmo, tr.
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This book is the autobiography of the great scholar and translator Vairochana, as told to a group of his students near the end of his life in the eighth century. Responsible for bringing seminal Buddhist teachings to Tibet from India, his deep understanding of the Dharma was what enabled him to translate the essence of enlightened mind, conveyed in the Sanskrit texts, with great accuracy.
Great Image; The Life Story of Vairochana the Translator, Yudra Nyingpo, Ani Jinba Palmo, tr.
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