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Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa
By: Thubten Yeshe
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Following Je Tsongkhapa's ( 1357-1419 A.D.) text Having the Three Convictions, Lama Yeshe introduces the renowned Six Yogas of Naropa, focusing mainly on the first of these six, the practice of inner fire (tummo). Mastery of inner fire quickly brings the mind to its most refined and penetrating state-the experience of clear light, an extraordinarily powerful state of mind that is unequaled in its ability to directly realize ultimate reality.
Lama Yeshe felt that twentieth-century Westerners could easily grasp the often misunderstood ideas of this esoteric tradition: "We really need tantra these days because there is a tremendous explosion of delusion and distraction...and we need the atomic energy of inner fire to blast us out of our delusion."
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Bridge of Quiescence
By: Wallace, B. Allen
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For centuries, Tibetan Buddhist contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed, rigorous techniques of meditation.
Professor Wallace explains the methods and experiences of those Tibetan practitioners and compares these with investigations of consciousness by Western scientists and philosophers. "
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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.
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Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real, Buddhist Meditation and the Middle View
Alex Wayman
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Lam rim chen mo (roughly, "the great book on stages of the path to enlightenment") is the abbreviated title of a massive encyclopedic manual written by Tson-Kha-pa, the founder of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real marks the first appearance in English of the two most important segments of this work.
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Central Philosophy of Tibet
By: Thurman, Robert
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A Study and Translation of Jey Tsong Khapa's Essence of Eloquence. This is the paperbackThis is the paperback edition of the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence by Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the freatest Tibetan philosopher.
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Critique of Svatantra Reasoning by Candrakirti and Tsong-kha-pa. A Study of philosophical proof according to two Prasangika Madhyamaka Traditions of India and Tibet
Kodo Yotsuya
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The status of reasoning and formally stated philosophical proofs is a fundamental problem in the Madhyamaka philosophy of India and Tibet, one which became a decisive criteria dividing the two major later sub-schools of Nagarjuna's tradition. The present work investigates the critique of the so-called "autonomous proofs" (svatantra) by two major exponents of the Prasangika sub-school of the Madhyamaka in India and Tibet, Candrakirti (ca. 600-665) and Tsong kha pa (1357-1419). Candrakirti initially developed his critique in the Prasannapada, his highly influential commentary on Nagarjuna's basic treatise. In Tibet, Tsong kha pa was one of the most important interpreters of Candrakirti, and he substantiated his own Madhyamaka views in an original but in many ways convincing manner. His treatment of this critique is an important and highly characteristic example of his approach and work. Inhalt: Tsong kha pa's Unique Understanding of Selflessness - Tsong kha pa's Method of Demonstrating Selflessness - The Meaning of the Term Svatantra - Candrakirti's Critique of Svatantra-reasoning in the Prasannapada - Tsong kha pa's Critique of Svatantra-reasoning in the Lam rim chen mo and the Legs bshad snying po - Table of the Discussions of Svatantra-reasoning "What makes this study especially valuable is above all the author's critical analysis of the contents of each discussion by Candrakirti and Tsong kha pa. [à] Yotsuya really deserves the gratitude of scholars for the publication of this elaborate work Indo-Iranian Journal. (Franz Steiner 1999)
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Deity Yoga
By: Dalai Lama / Tsong-Ka-pa
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Deity Yoga describes the profound process of meditation in Action and Performance Tantras. It is a invaluable book for anyone who is practicing or interested in Buddhist tantra.
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Dependent Arising and Emptiness, A Tibetan Buddhist Interpretation of Madhyamika Philosophy
By: Napper, Elizabeth
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Emptiness and dependent-arising are two core concepts within Buddhism. An understanding of their integral relationship allows us to see how the Madhyamika school, the preeminent school of Buddhist philosophy in Tibet, can completely deny any inherent ontological status to the world around us while maintaining a valid presentation of reality based on ethical principles. The brilliant scholar and yogi Dzong-kha-ba, founder of the Ge-luk-ba lineage, demonstrated how these two core concepts are not only compatible, but are actually mutually contingent.
Along with a translation of the special insight (vipasyana) section of Dzong-kha-ba's Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path (lam rim chen mo), Napper provides an extensive introduction that contrasts the Ge-luk-ba view of emptiness to that of Western scholars and a translation of four interwoven commentaries on the text.
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Emptiness in the Mind-Only School
By: Hopkins, Jeffrey
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Paperback Dynamic Responses to Dzongkaba's The Essence of Eloquence
In this first of three volumes, Jeffrey Hopkins focuses on how the conflict between appearance and reality is presented in the mind-only, or yogic practice, school. The Essence of Eloquence is so rich that over the past six centuries numerous Tibetan and Mongolian scholars have been drawn into a dynamic process of both finding and creating consistency in Dzong-ka-ba's often terse and cryptic tract.
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Essence of Nectar
By: Tsondu Yeshe
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The "Essence of Nectar" by Yeshe Tsondru, an incarnate Lama of the Gelug tradition, is a poetic supplement to the "Great Exposition of the Graded Path," written by the founder of the Gelug tradition, Je Tsong-ka-pa (1357-1419). In this work, Yeshe Tsondru eloquently synthesizes all the cogent points of the progressive meditations leading to the awakening of a Buddha: the complete eradication of suffering and the attainment of all wholesome spiritual qualities.
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Ethics of Tibet
By: Tsong-Kha-Pa
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Bodhisattva Section of Tsong-Kha-Pa's LAM RIM CHEN MO Translated by Alex Wayman from the Tibetan original With a Foreword by the Dalai Lama. One of the leading Tibetan scholars in the world has translated this work by the great Tsong-kha-pa, the titular head of the Gelugpa Sect and perhaps the Tibetan equivalent of the great Nagarjuna. This first complete English translation also reveals the encyclopedic mind of Tsongkhapa, whose copious references to the sutras are a gold mine. He, more than anyone else, shaped the development of Tibetan Buddhism as we know it today.
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Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries
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The Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries provided by His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama are on The Thirty Seven Bodhisattva Practices by Thogmed Zangpo; Three Principal Paths by Je Tsong-Khapa, The Eight Verses on the Training of the Mind by Geshe Langri Thangpa and The Song of Four Mindfulnesses by Seventh Dalai Lama.
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Fulfillment of All Hopes: Guru Devotion in Tibetan Buddhism
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Why is it important to have a spiritual teacher? How does one enter into such a relationship intelligently? Devoting oneself to a spiritual teacher is a practice much misunderstood in the West, yet fundamental to the tantric Buddhism of Tibet. The Fulfillment of All Hopes is an explanation of this core practice by Tsongkhapa, one of Tibet's most revered scholar-practioners.
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Golden Garland of Eloquence Vol. 1
By: Tsong Kha Pa, Gareth Sparham
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Golden Garland of Eloquence (Legs bshad gser phreng) is the famous Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita) commentary written by the influential Tibetan writer Tsong kha pa (1356-1419). It is Tsong kha pa's first major work, written before his better known works on Madhyamaka. It is greatly respected and much studied by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet.The Golden Garland supplements the two main Indian Perfection of Wisdom commentaries, Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti and Haribhadra's Aloka, on which it is based. It explains the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and earlier commentaries in detail, glossing difficult words and going into detailed explanations of difficult points. It introduces the reader to some twenty works by the most important Indian Perfection of Wisdom writers, and to the earlier Tibetan traditions of Ngok and Dolpopa, and the traditions of Buton and Nyaon. This translation makes available, for the first time in English, an example of the rich Tibetan Perfection of Wisdom commentarial tradition and will be of interest to both scholars and informed general readers alike.
This is the first of four volumes.
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Golden Garland of Eloquence Vol. 2
By : Tsong Kha Pa
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Golden Garland of Eloquence (Legs bshad gser phreng) is the famous Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita) commentary written by the influential Tibetan writer Tsong kha pa (1356-1419). It is Tsong kha pa's first major work, written before his better known works on Madhyamaka. It is greatly respected and much studied by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet.The Golden Garland supplements the two main Indian Perfection of Wisdom commentaries, Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti and Haribhadra's Aloka, on which it is based. It explains the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and earlier commentaries in detail, glossing difficult words and going into detailed explanations of difficult points. It introduces the reader to some twenty works by the most important Indian Perfection of Wisdom writers, and to the earlier Tibetan traditions of Ngok and Dolpopa, and the traditions of Buton and Nyaon. This translation makes available, for the first time in English, an example of the rich Tibetan Perfection of Wisdom commentarial tradition and will be of interest to both scholars and informed general readers alike.
Hardcover, 230 Pages, $75.00
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Golden Garland of Eloquence Vol. 3
By: Tsong Kha Pa, Gareth Sparham
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Golden Garland of Eloquence (Legs bshad gser phreng) is the famous Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita) commentary written by the influential Tibetan writer Tsong kha pa (1356-1419). It is Tsong kha pa's first major work, written before his better known works on Madhyamaka. It is greatly respected and much studied by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet.The Golden Garland supplements the two main Indian Perfection of Wisdom commentaries, Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti and Haribhadra's Aloka, on which it is based. It explains the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and earlier commentaries in detail, glossing difficult words and going into detailed explanations of difficult points. It introduces the reader to some twenty works by the most important Indian Perfection of Wisdom writers, and to the earlier Tibetan traditions of Ngok and Dolpopa, and the traditions of Buton and Nyaon. This translation makes available, for the first time in English, an example of the rich Tibetan Perfection of Wisdom commentarial tradition and will be of interest to both scholars and informed general readers alike.
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Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Vol. 1
By: Tsong-Kha-Pa
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Lam Rim Chen Mo
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa (1357-1419), completed this masterpiece in 1402 and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy in the world of Tibetan Buddhism.
This first volume establishes that the central focus of the text is the development of the spirit of enlightenment (bodhicitta), the heart of the Mahayana tradition. All the practices that are prerequisite for developing the spirit of enlightenment are covered here, making this indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand and practice Tibetan Buddhism
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Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Vol. 2
By: Tsong-Kha-Pa
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Lam Rim Chen Mo
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world's treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa (1357-1419), completed this masterpiece in 1402 and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy in the world of Tibetan Buddhism. Tsong-kha-pa took great pains to base his incisive insights on the classical Indian Buddhist literature, illustrating his points with classical citations as well as with sayings of the masters of the earlier Kadampa tradition. In this way the text demonstrates clearly how Tibetan Buddhism carefully preserved and developed the Indian Buddhist traditions. [...]
The Great Treatise is now being translated in its entirety to be released in three volumes. This middle volume, the heart of the Great Treatise contains a presentation of the two most important topics to be found in the Great Treatise covers the spirit of enlightenment ( bodhicitta; byang chub kyi sems) and the deeds of the bodhisattvas, the great beings whose deeds are motivated by this altruistic spirit.
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Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Vol. 3
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Lam Rim Chen Mo
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world's treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa (1357-1419), completed this masterpiece in 1402 and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy in the world of Tibetan Buddhism. Tsong-kha-pa took great pains to base his incisive insights on the classical Indian Buddhist literature, illustrating his points with classical citations as well as with sayings of the masters of the earlier Kadampa tradition. In this way the text demonstrates clearly how Tibetan Buddhism carefully preserved and developed the Indian Buddhist traditions. [...]
The Great Treatise is now being translated in its entirety to be released in three volumes. This third volume contains a presentation of the two most important topics to be found in the Great Treatise: meditative serenity (shamatha) and supramundane insight into the nature of reality (vipashyana)
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Harmony of Emptiness and Dependent Arising
By: Lobsang Gyatso
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The Harmony of Emptiness and Dependent-Arising is a commentary to Tsongkhapa's The Essence of Eloquent Speech, Praise to the Buddha for Teaching Profound Dependent-Arising. The subject of the work concerns two important themes of Buddhist philosophy: emptiness and dependent-arising.
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Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path
By: Guy Newland
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Readers are hard-pressed to find books that can help them understand the central concept in Mahayana Buddhism--the idea that ultimate reality is "emptiness." In clear language, Introduction to Emptiness explains that emptiness is not a mystical sort of "nothingness," but a specific truth that can and must be understood through calm and careful reflection.
Newland's contemporary examples and vivid anecdotes will be helpful to students trying to understand one of the great classic texts of the Tibetan tradition, Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise.
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Lama Mipam's Commentary to Nagarjuna's Stanzas For a Novice Monk
By: Nagarjuna, Je TsongKhapa, Mipham
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Also Je Tsong Khapa's Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya
These two works concern the Vinaya, or system of self-discipline, which is considered of vital importance in monastic training. These texts focus on the Vinaya as it is taught to young novice monks. The first work is Nagarjuna's Stanzas for a Novice Monk, presented with a commentary by the 19ht century Nyingma lama, Jamyang Mipam Rinpoche. The second work, Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya, was composed in the 14th century by the great Je Tsong Khapa and concerns the eight fundamental categories of the pratimoksha vows.
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Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa
By: Thurman, Robert
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The Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa brings together for the first time a number of extremely important and useful works by and on Tsong Khapa touching transcendental aspects of Sutra, Tantra and Insight Meditation, including mystic conversations with great Bodhisattvas and deeply spiritual songs in praises of Manjushri and Maitreya etc.
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Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main Practices of the Mahayana Buddhist Path
By: Kensur Lekden, trans. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins.
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This book presents, with the intimate freshness of a personal teaching, the main practices of the Mahayana Buddhist path. It details the attitudes cultivated in meditation ranging from turning away from cyclic existence, to developing love and compassion for all beings, to the profound view of emptiness.
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Meditative States in Tibetan Buddhism
By: Lati Rinbochay
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Meditative States gives a vivid and detailed account of the meditative practices necessary to develop a calm, alert mind that is capable of penetrating the depths of reality.
In this precise and lucid work, two prominent modern Tibetan lamas-Lati Rinbochay and Denma Locho Rinbochay-present comprehensive explanations of the mental states attained through meditation.
Discussing step-by-step the practice of meditation itself, they provide us with practical antidotes to the various obstacles that may arise in meditation. At the same time, they intersperse their presentations with captivating descriptions of the sometimes fantastic, sometimes astonishing cosmology that provides the background and context for Buddhist practice. Their erudite and experienced expositions are enlivened as well by their compassion and humor, so typical of the Tibetan scholastic and yogic traditions.
Drawing on classic texts by Asanga, Maitreya, and Dzongka-ba on the topics of the meditative states known as the concentrations and the formless absorptions, the two lamas bring alive the learning experience of the Buddhist culture of Tibet.
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Millenium of Buddhist Logic
By: Wayman, Alex
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Part I (Introductory) has Asanga's Rules of Debate, Dharmakirti's Nyayabindu with Kamalasila's commentary, and Santi-pa's treatise on 'inner pervasion.
Part II, devoted to the Dignaga-Dharmaklrti system, has five sets of eleven verses, then a study of Bu-Ston's commentary on Dharmakirti's Pramanaviniscaya, and finally Tsong-kha-pa's Mun sel on the Seven Books of Dharmakirti.
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Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun
By: Nam Kha Pel, tr. Beresford & Russel
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The mind training teachings are a great vehicle instruction, because they are mostly concerned with developing the awakening mind, the altruistic mind of enlightenment. They are directed primarily towards the practitioner of great capacity, and deal essentially with transforming our mental attitudes.
One special feature of the mind training teachings is the advice to transform adversity into advantage. So, not only do these instructions help us open out towards other beings, but they also help us transform whatever difficulties come our way into something valuable.
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Ocean of Eloquence: Tsong kha pa's Commentary on the Yogacara Doctrine of Mind
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Tsong kha pa's Commentary on the YOGACARA DOCTRINE OF MIND
This book is of particular interest because it shows the presence of the Yogacara (Mind Only) school in Tibet. It is well known that the Madhyamaka school flourished in Tibet, but less well known that Yogacara doctrines were also studied and practiced. The former school stresses the inexpressible ultimate; the latter, the natural luminosity of mind. This is probably the best introduction to the distinctive eight consciousnesses systems of Yogacara. It also makes understandable the different meanings of the profound alaya-vijnana (the storehouse consciousness, or basis of all) that is the pivotal eighth consciousness in their system.
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Ocean of Reasoning: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
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A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
Tsong kha pa (14th century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. An Ocean of Reasoning is the most extensive and perhaps the deepest extant commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way), and it can be argued that it is impossible to discuss Nagarjuna's work in an informed way without consulting it.
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Path to the Middle, Oral Madhyamika Philosophy in Tibet
By: Klein, Anne
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The spoken scholarship of Kensur Yeshey Tupden
Does a Bodhisattva's initial direct cognition of emptiness differ from subsequent ones? Can one "improve" a nondualistic understanding of the unconditioned and, if so, what role might subtle states of concentration play in the process? In material collected by Anne Klein over a seven year period, Kensur Yeshey Tupden addresses these and other crucial issues of Buddhist soteriology to provide one of the richest presentations of Tibetan oral philosophy yet published in English.
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Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa
By: Mullin, Glenn
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The Tibetan tradition known as the Six Yogas of Naropa is one of the most popular tantric systems with all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Structured and arranged by the eleventh-century Indian masters Tilopa and Naropa from various Buddhist tantric legacies, this system of yogic practice was carried to Tibet by Marpa the Translator a generation later. These "six yogas" - inner heat, illusory body, clear light, consciousness transference, forceful projection and bardo yoga - continue to be one of the most important living meditation traditions in the Land of Snow.
This collection of readings on the six yogas contains important texts on this esoteric doctrine, including original Indian works by Tilopa and Naropa, and Tibetan writings by Tsongkhapa the Great, Gyalwa Wensapa, the First Panchen Lama and Lama Jey Sherab Gyatso. Readings discusses the practices, their context and the historical continuity of this most important tradition, which is said to bring full enlightenment in one lifetime.
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Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo
By: Yangsi Rinpoche
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The Lamrim Chenmo by Je Tsongkhapa is a comprehensive overview of the entire path to enlightenment. Meditation on the lamrim - the steps on the path - has been a core practice of Tibetan Buddhists for centuries. The lamrim presents the Buddha's teachings along a continuum of three spiritual attitudes, culminating in the supreme aspiration of the bodhisattva, who strives for buddhahood in order to relieve the suffering of all beings. Yangsi Rinpoche gave this commentary over a two-month period to a group of Western students in Dharamsala, India.
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Pratityasamutpadastuti-Subhasitahradayam, Tibetan and Sanskrit Text
By: Tsongkapa
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Pratityasamutpadastuti-Subhasitahradayam, (rTen 'Brel bsTod Pa Legs bShad sNying Po) , Sanskrit and Tietan texts, Acarya Tsongkhapa, Edited by Gyaltsen Namdol, Translated by Gyaltsen Namdol and Ngawang Samten, Paperback, CIHTS, $18.00
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Preparing for Tantra
By: Tsongkapa
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The Mountain of Blessings
A concise manual on how to prepare oneself to enter theThe Mountain of Blessings
A concise manual on how to prepare oneself to enter the secret paths of Buddhism written by the greatest master of ancient Middle Asia.
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Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy
By: Thupten Jinpa
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Thupten Jinpa explores the historical and intellectual context of Tsongkhapa's philosophy and addresses the critical issues related to questions of development and originality in Tsongkhapa's thought. The work also deals extensively with one of Tsongkhapa's primary concerns, namely his attempts to demonstrate that the Middle Way philosophy's de-constructive analysis does not negate the reality of the everyday world. The central focus of the study is the question of the existence and the nature of self. This is explored in terms of both Tsongkhapa's de-construction of the self and his re-constructive theories of the person. Finally, the work explores the concept of reality that emerges in Tsongkhapa's philosophy, and deals with his understanding of the relationship between critical reasoning, no-self, and religious experience. The interpretations of Tsongkhapa's thought are grounded in the original works, thus enabling Tsongkhapa to speak, as far as possible, in his own voice, while articulating his philosophical thought in language familiar to contemporary western philosophy.
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Six Yogas of Naropa
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Tsongkhapa's discussion of the Six Yogas is regarded as one of the finest on the subject to come out of Tibet. His treatise has served as the fundamental guide to the system as practiced in more than three thousand Gelukpa monasteries, nunneries and hermitages across Central Asia over the past five and half centuries.
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Sound of Silence: Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho
By: Ajahn Sumedho
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The sound of silence is like a subtlety behind everything that you awaken to; you don't notice it if you're seeking the extremes. Yet as we start to become more poised, more present, fully receptive of all this moment has to offer, we start to experience it vividly and listening to it can draw us ever — deeper into the mysteries of now.
Always skillful and good humored, Ajahn Sumedho's teachings defy boundaries. Anyone — from laypeople looking to deepen their grasp of the Buddha's message, to lifetime Buddhist monastics — will appreciate the author's sparkling insights into to such key Buddhist themes as awareness, consciousness, identity, relief from suffering, and mindfulness of the body. The Sound of Silence represents the best of Ajahn Sumedho's masterful work to help us all see each life with a new and sustaining clarity.
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Speech of Gold
By: Thurman Robert
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This is the first full study, translated and critically annotated, of the Essence of True Eloquence, by Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. The work is a study of the major schools of Mahayana Buddhism, known as Vijnanavada and Madhyamika, and an explanation of Prasangika ("Dialecticist") interpretation of of Madhyamika ("Centrism").
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Splendor of an Autumn Moon, The Devotional Verse of Tsongkhapa
By: Tsongkhapa, Kilty, tr.
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The story of the remarkable life of Tsongkhapa has been well documented elsewhere, but this collection of works seeks to bring out a lesser-known side of this great scholar and meditator: the devotional poet. Tsongkhapa studied poetry, as did many of the great masters of his day and after, and in the colophon of many of his works he is referred to as the "Poet of the North."
"Splendor of an Autumn Moon" presents for the first time twenty-one devotional poems by Tsongkhapa, in both the original Tibetan and in artful English translations.
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Stairway to Nirvana: A Study of the Twenty Samghas Based on the Works of Tsong kha pa
By: James B. Apple
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James B. Apple examines one of the formative subjects in traditional Buddhist studies, the Twenty Varieties of the Samgha. The Samgha (community) is one of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Samgha) universally revered by all Buddhists. While the Samgha is generally understood as the community of Buddhist ordained monks and nuns, along with lay adherents, the Twenty
Varieties of the Samgha concerns an exemplary community of the twenty types of Noble Beings (arya-pudgala) who embody the Buddha’s teachings. Focusing on the interpretation of the Samgha given by the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar Tsong kha pa, Apple provides a comprehensive typology and analysis of the stages through which Noble Beings pass in their progress toward enlightenment through multiple lifetimes in various cosmological realms. He explains the cosmographic formations and complex structures of Buddhist spiritual cultivation, illustrating how Tibetan and Indian Buddhists conceptualize all possible states on the path to enlightenment.
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Step by Step: Basic Buddhist Meditations
By: Geshe Namgyal Wangchen
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Step By Step is a practical introduction to the profound meditation methods of Tibetan Buddhism. Based on the teachings of the great Tibetan saint and founder of the Gelug School, Tsongkhapa, the techniques explained here are simple, direct and possess the power to radically alter the way we see the world and ourselves. They present a time-tested means for counteracting depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and countless other forms of mental suffering. This book provides the reader with all of the instruction necessary to embark on the path of transformation that Tibetan Buddhists have refined over the last 1300 years. Geshe Wangchen provides detailed explanations on the six perfections, emptiness, the preciousness life, and how to develop the genuine altruistic wish to live ones life in a way that brings only benefit to all living things. Geshe Wangchen provides three life changing meditations that the reader can immediately integrate into their lives in order to work toward a life experience that is more compassionate, confident, and full of wisdom.
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Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol 1: The Foundational Practices
By: Geshe Lundrup Sopa St
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A Commentary on Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim Chenmo, Volume One: The Foundational Practices
The first volume of a much-anticipated, comprehensive commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo by the renowned Buddhist scholar, Geshe Sopa. This landmark commentary - on what is perhaps the most elaborate and elegant Tibetan presentation of the Buddhist path - offers a detail overview of Buddhist philosophy which will be especially invaluable for those who want to enact the wisdom of the Buddha in their lives.
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Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol 2: Karma
By: Geshe Lundrup Sopa
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A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo, Vol 2: Karma.
This second volume of the five-volume commentary by the renowned Buddhist scholar Geshe Lhundub Sopa focuses on the key Buddhist concepts of karma, or cause and effect, and dependent origination. Considered one of the finest scholars of Buddhism alive, Geshe Sopa provides commentaries essential for anyone interested in a sound understanding of Tibetan Buddhist practice and philosophy. Never has a book gone into such clear detail on karma - a concept which, despite many references in popular culture, is too often misunderstood. Geshe Sopa is an ideal commentator for the Western reader.
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Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol 3: The Way of the Bodhisattva
By: Geshe Lundrup Sopa
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A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo, Vol 3: The Way of the Bodhisattva,
Geshe Lhundub Sopa’s Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
is a landmark commentary on what is perhaps the most elaborate
and elegant Tibetan presentation of the Buddhist path,
Tsongkhapa’s monumental Lamrim Chenmo. In this third
volume of five, readers are acquainted with the bodhisattva’s
path and the altruistic desire to make service to others the
driving force of spiritual development.
It begins with an explanation of what distinguishes
the Mahayana practitioner from
other Buddhists. The nature of bodhichitta
is described in depth, and Geshe Sopa then
provides a detailed, contemporary commentary
on the two methods to develop this
attitude: the “sevenfold cause-and-effect
personal instructions” based on the teachings
of Atisha and the later Kadampa lineage, and the
“training to exchange self and other” based on Shantideva’s
Engaging in the Bodhisattva’s Deeds. While bodhichitta’s
significance in Mahayana Buddhism is universally known,
this attitude alone is not sufficient in the quest for complete
enlightenment. A practitioner must devote oneself to the
performance of actions motivated by bodhichitta, called the
bodhisattva perfections.
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Tantra in Tibet
By: Dalai Lama, Tsong-kapa
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This series is published under the auspices of the Dalai Lama and is unique in that each volume has been specially chosen by His Holiness as revealing a true oral tradition. Volumes in the series thus far include The Buddhism of Tibet, Tantra in Tibet and Deity Yoga.
Tantra in Tibet consists of three parts published under the auspices of the Dalai Lama:
Essence of Tantra by H.H. the Dalai Lama reveals the highly practical and compassionate use of this science of spiritual development. Contents include: tantra for practice, refuge, the three paths, greatness of mantra, clear light and initiation.
The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra-part 1 by Tsong-kapa, is one of the principle classic texts on tantra. It presents the main features common to all the Buddhist tantra systems as well as the differences between sutra and tantra. Contents include: paths to Buddhahood, vajra vehicle, deity yoga and method in the four tantras.
Supplement by Jeffrey Hopkins discusses the meaning of emptiness, transformation, and the purpose of the four tantras.
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Tantric Ethics, An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Varjayana Practice
By: Tsongkhapa
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Central to Buddhism of Tibet are the esoteric techniques of the tantric, or Vajrayana, tradition. These practices involve recitation of matra and complex visualizations and are passed from teacher to student during sacred initiation ceremonies. Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but cannot be succesful without adherence to the tantric precepts, the code of ethical behavior for aspirants on the Vajrayana path. The tantric vows are the highest of the three complementary sets of vows in Tibetan Buddhism, following the Pratimoksha (monastic) and Mahayana vows.
The scholar and tantric adept Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), one of the greatest philosophers produced by Tibet's Buddhist culture, composed works on every aspect of Buddhist philosophy and practice. This book contains a translation of his Fruit Clusters of Siddhis, an explanation of the tantric vows, and provides a clear explanation of the nature of each vow and the criteria for determining when a downfall has occured.
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Teachings on Je Tsongkhapas Three Principal Aspects of the Path
By: Dalai Lama
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Je Tsongkhapa (1357~1419) was one of the
greatest commentator in the history of Buddhism and has the dexterity to
compress profound and vast ideas in a single poem. The Three Principal
Aspects of the Path is one such example. This text containing fourteen
verses was taught to Tsakho Onpo Ngawang Dakpa in a place called Gyamo
Rong in eastern Tibet.
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
are the basis of all the sutric and tantric practices that you
undertake. When one's practice is influenced by renunciation, it becomes
a cause for achieving liberation (Nirvana), when it is influenced by
Bodhichitta it becomes a cause for achieving omniscience (Buddhahood),
and when it is
influenced by correct view it becomes an antidote to the cycle of existence (Samsara).
The
Three Principal Aspects of the Path are the essence of all the
scriptures of the Buddha. The meaning of the Buddha's teachings and
commentaries on them are included in the stages of the path of the three
individuals, and these in turn are included in the Three Principal
Aspects of the Path.
Je Tsongkhapa's masterpiece appears here
with a commentary by the greatest commentator and foremost teacher on Buddhism of our time His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama.
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Tsong-Kha-Pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom
By: Jeffrey Hopkins
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In fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Tibet there was great ferment about what makes enlightenment possible, since systems of self-liberation must show what factors preexist in the mind that allow for transformation into a state of freedom from suffering. This controversy about the nature of mind, which persists to the present day, raises many questions.
This book first presents the final exposition of special insight by Tsong-kha-pa, the founder of the Ge-luk-pa order of Tibetan Buddhism, in his Medium-Length Exposition of the Stages of the Path, as well as the sections on the object of negation and on the two truths in his Illumination of the Thought: Extensive Explanation of (Chandrakirti's) "Supplement to (Nagarjuna's) ‘Treatise on the Middle."' It then details the views of his predecessor Dol-po-pa Shay-rap Gyel-tsen, the seminal author of philosophical treatises of the Jo-nang-pa order, as found in his Mountain Doctrine, followed by an analysis of Tsong-kha-pa's reactions. By contrasting the two systems- Dol-po-pa's doctrine of other-emptiness and Tsong-kha-pa's doctrine of self-emptiness- both views emerge more clearly, contributing to a fuller picture of reality as viewed in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Tsongkapa, The Principal Teachings of Buddhism
By:Geshe Lobsang Tharchin
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Tsongkapa was the greatest commentator in the history of Buddhism and wrote some 10,000 pages in eloquent explanation of the entire range of the ancient Buddhist classics. He undertook the challenge of compressing all his knowledge into a single poem. The result was his famous Three Principal Paths fourteen verses written for a favored student in a faraway land.
Tsongkapa's masterpiece appears here with a commentary by the illustrious Pabongka Rinpoche (1878-1941), generally regarded as the foremost Tibetan teacher of Buddhism during the last century. The work has been translated by Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, one of the last Buddhist masters of old Tibet.
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Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity
By: Geshe Graham Woodhouse
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Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced. He composed his poetic Praise for Dependent Relativity the very morning that he abandoned confusion and attained the final view, the clear realization of emptiness that is the essence of wisdom. English monk Graham Woodhouse, a longtime student of Buddhism who lives near the Dalai Lamas residence in northern India, translates Tsongkhapas celebrated text and conveys for modern readers the teachings he received from his teacher, the late Venerable Losang Gyatso.
Wisdom Publications , Paperback, 160 pages, $16.95
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Two Prolegomena to Madhyamaka Philosophy
By: David Seyfort Ruegg
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Studies in Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka thought, Part 2
Candrakirti's Prasannapada Madhyamkavritth on Madhyamakakarika i.1 and Tson Kha pa Blo Bzan Grags Pa / rGyal Tshab Dar Ma Rin Chen's dKa' gNad / gNas brGyad Kyi Zin Bris
Annotated translations
Two Prolegomena to Madhyamaka Philosophy , David Seyfort Ruegg, Arbeitskreis fur Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Paperback , 299 pp., $48.00
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Two Truths Debate: Tsongkhapa and Gorampa on the Middle Way
By: Sonam Thakchoe
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The Middle Way is a central idea for all Buddhists, yet its definition varies across Buddhist cultures. In Tibetan Buddhism, the interpretation of what are called the two truths — the truth of conventional appearances and the ultimate truth of emptiness — is especially contentious. This comparative analysis examines the differing approaches toward the Middle Way taken by the two great Buddhist scholars, Tsongkhapa and Gorampa. It demonstrates how philosophical positions have dramatic implications both for how one approaches Buddhist practice and for how one ultimately understands enlightenment itself.
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Yoga of the Guhyasamajatantra
By: Wayman, Alex
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This work opens up the subject of perhaps the most profound of Buddhist tantras, The Guhyasamajatantra by shedding light on its relation with previous literature including the Brahamical tradition and by revealing the elevated type of Yoga. It goes far toward replacing the previous supposition that this Tantra can be understood by mere reading by one oblivious of the extensive commentarial tradition that incorporates the precepts of the Gurus.
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Yoga of Tibet, The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra-2 and 3
By: Tsong-ka-pa
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The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra û part 2 & 3 by Tsong-ka-pa, details the practices of Action and Performance Tantra. Special deity yoga techniques for the development of the heart, mind and physical form of a Buddha are presented in a coherent series of yogic exercises. The mudras (hand gestures) that accompany the meditations are clearly illustrated.
A Supplement by Jeffrey Hopkins outlines in detail the structure of Action Tantra practices as well as the need for development.of special yogic powers.
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Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats
By: H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzongkaba, Jeffrey Hopkins
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The Dalai Lama opens the door to the topic of Yoga Tantra with an extraordinarily detailed teaching on a classic text. Rarely in the Dalai Lama's lifetime has he given teachings of such a nature on this topic. There follows a translation of the Yoga Tantra section of Dzong-ka-ba's The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, one of his most important works and a monument of Tibetan Buddhist literature. Jeffrey Hopkins concludes this book with an outline of the steps of Yoga Tantra practice. This is an invaluable book for anyone who is practicing or interested in Buddhist tantra in general.
This is the third book in a series presenting The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra. The first two books were Tantra in Tibet and Deity Yoga. Tantra in Tibet, part one of The Great Exposition, describes the differences between the Lesser and Great Vehicles and between the Sutra and Mantra Great Vehicles. Deity Yoga, parts two and three of The Great Exposition, presents Action Tantra and Performance Tantra.
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