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Buddhist Fasting Practice: The Nyungne Fasting Method of Thousand-Armed Chenrezig
by Wangchen Rinpoche
This volume, the only comprehensive treatment in English, offers clear instruction on how to undertake Nyungne practice, which is gaining popularity in the West. Nyungne is a profound two-and-a-half-day practice, helpful for people with lay life commitments. Practice involves vows, silence, fasting, mantra recitation, and guided visualizations of Thousand-Armed Chenrezig, the embodiment of loving-kindness and compassion.
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No Self, No Problem
by Anam Thubten, edited by Sharon Roe
This Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher writes with clarity, humor and honesty about how to realize the ultimate meaning of life in each moment by dissolving all notions of ego identity. He asks spiritual seekers to wake up to their true nature, which is already enlightened. Based on the Buddhist wisdom tradition, this easy-to-read book discusses in simple but profound language how we can live a life full of love, satisfaction, and happiness.
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Study and Practice of Meditation: Tibetan Interpretations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
by Leah Zahler
This book provides vivid details of the meditative practices necessary to develop a calm, alert mind, capable of penetrating the nature of reality. It offers readers Tibetan Buddhist views, according to three contemporary Tibetan lamas, on the mental states in meditation, and discusses their relation to the spiritual path, meditative calm, and the requirements for attaining it.
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Luminous Essence: A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra
by Jamgon Mipham, translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee
Luminous Essence is a complete introduction to the world of tantric thought and practice. Renowned Tibetan master Jamgon Mipham provides an overview of the theory and explanations of the Tantra of the Secret Essence (Guhyagarbha Tantra). A central scripture in Tibetan Buddhism for over a thousand years, meant for initiated tantric practitioners.
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How to Read Classical Tibetan, Vol. Two: Buddhist Tenets
by Craig Preston
This book is a complete language course for students learning to read Classical Tibetan that enables students to learn grammar and philosophy at the same time. Easy-to-understand diagrams show how to break down Tibetan sentences into their tiniest parts and understand their meaning, on your own. The subject of the text is a valuable work on tenets.
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Tantric Techniques
by Jeffrey Hopkins
Deity yoga is the meditative practice of imagining oneself as an ideal being fully endowed with compassion and wisdom; imagining oneself as a Buddha is said to actually help us achieve Buddhahood. Tantric Techniques offers a complete system that enables readers to glimpse the human mind's potential for self-transformation through the use of imagination.
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The Union of Bliss and Emptiness: Teachings on the Practice of Guru Yoga
by the Dalai Lama, trans. by Thupten Jinpa
Guru yoga combines the essential aspects of the sutra path with the profound tantric techniques that activate the latent spiritual forces within us. Here, the Dalai Lama offers his wonderful compassion, wisdom, and wit, providing us with a framework for the entire Buddhist path, and setting down guidelines for a complete daily practice.
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The Practice of Mahamudra
by Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, trans. by Robert Clark, ed. by Ani K. Trinlay Chödron
Mahamudra, the highest level of teaching within Tibetan Buddhism, rewards study and practice with the realization of the very nature of mind itself. Chetsang Rinpoche has provided detailed instructions in Mahamudra methods and meditational practices, comprising the range of spiritual experience, in a profoundly clear way.
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Tibetan Logic
by Katherine Manchester Rogers
Tibetan logic offers consciousness training in analysis of the meaning of religious texts and ultimately, the true nature of reality. It is an important method of developing new and valid knowledge about oneself and the world. This manual introduces beginners to the principles, vocabulary, and concepts of the system of logic, offering a foundation for understanding valid cognition.
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Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature
trans. and intro. by Karl Brunnhölzl
This superb collection of writings on buddha nature by the Third Karmapa focuses on the transition from deluded consciousness to enlightened wisdom, the characteristics of buddhahood, and a buddha's enlightened activity. Most of the material has never been translated, and offers Rangjung Dorje's unique and well-balanced view on Yogacara, Madhyamaka, and buddha nature. The Karmapa's texts are not merely scholarly documents, but texts that can be transformed into living experience.
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As Long As Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra
ed. by Edward A. Arnold, fore. by Robert A. F. Thurman
Kalacakra Tantra covers a wide range of knowledge, from studies of the cosmos to meditation and vital bodily energies. The Kalacakra initiation is one of the most important events in Buddhist life. This volume celebrates the Dalai Lama's offering this initiation in the West, exploring the works of 25 great Kalacakra masters, analysis, practice methods, essays, ethics, and offering practical advice for Western practitioners.
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Impermanence: Embracing Change
by David Hodge and Hi-Jin Hodge, fore. by the Dalai Lama
We are constantly changing. What does it mean, and how do people face death and change? Over a hundred people were videotaped and asked their thoughts on impermanence and change in their lives. This book and CD reveal the hope of endless possibilities for us. A useful guide for daily reflection.
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The Dark Red Amulet: Oral Instructions on the Practice of Vajrakilaya
by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Presented here is the practice of Vajrakilaya according to the great treasure-revealer Tsasum Lingpa. Embodying the enlightened activity of all the buddhas, its function is to clear obstacles to spiritual practice, transforming every duality hindrance into clear wisdom and compassion.
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Yeshe Lama: Vidyadhara Jigmed Lingpa
trans. by Lama Chonam and Sangye Khandro
Yeshe Lama is the most important practice manual on the Great Perfection teachings of the Nyingma tradition, developing the "realization of the pure awareness that transcends the mind." (See requirements for study before ordering.)
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Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition
by Glenn H. Mullin
Western society views death as taboo; the Tibetan tradition incorporates meditation on death into everyday life, believing that conscious awareness of our impermanence allows us to live happy, fulfilled lives. This fascinating book includes nine short Tibetan texts from the Dalai Lamas and Karma Lingpa.
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Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs
by Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche and Lama Surya Das
This inspiring collection of teachings provides the deepest possible insight into the practice of the Dzogchen path--a pure awareness practice applicable to any circumstance of modern life. An added collection of spontaneous vajra songs, heart-songs, offers further insight into wisdom consciousness, in the style of Milarepa.
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Light of Fearless Indestructible Wisdom: The Life and Legacy of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche was a beloved teacher, visionary, poet, revealer of treasures, and a key figure in modern Tibetan history. The Supreme Head of the Nyingma School until 1987, he revealed and restored sacred termas of Guru Rinpoche and brought texts forth which might otherwise have been lost. His biography is told by his close personal attendant and secretary.
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The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice
by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, translated by Ingrid Loken McLeod and Elio Guarisco
Reveals essential components of the path of highest yoga tantra, a meditation system that unites wisdom and compassion in two phases of practice: creation and completion. The book explores the meditative processes of the inner system of secret mantra, based largely on tantric sources. The result of this path is the direct experience of the fundamental nature of mind and phenomena.
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Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement
by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, trans. by Adriano Clemente
Yantra Yoga is a system of practice entailing bodily movements, breathing exercises and visualizations. Yantra Yoga practice can be found in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and was orally transmitted in Tibet in the eighth century by the great master Padmasambhava to the Dzogchen master Vairochana. It can be considered the most ancient of all the systems of Yantra.
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The Karmapa's Middle Way: Feast for the Fortunate
by the Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje, trans. by Tyler Dewar
Eloquent poetry, extensive analysis, and heart instructions on how to perceive the true nature of things make this volume equally accessible to the seasoned scholar and the newly curious nonspecialist alike. Here, Chandrakirti and the Karmapa present in precise detail the vital Buddhist concept of emptiness, through which the Mahayana path of compassionate altruism becomes complete.
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Great Perfection, Volume II: Separation and Breakthrough
by the Third Dzogchen Rinpoche, foreword by Dzogchen Ponlop, trans. by Cortland Dahl
The Great Perfection is considered the most profound and direct path to enlightenment in the Nyingma School. It is a spiritual shortcut that cuts through confusion and lays bare the mind's true nature. The book offers extensive teachings on the unique rushen practices and trekcho, or breakthrough, of the Heart Essence lineage. Also included are biographies of the Great Perfection masters, a lengthy introduction, and more. (See requirements for study before ordering.)
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Hurry Up and Meditate: Your Starter Kit for Inner Peace and Better Health
by David Michie
If meditation were available in capsule form, it would be the biggest-selling drug of all time. It offers stress relief, boosts our immune systems, and slows the aging process, making us happier and more effective thinkers. Offering a combination of leading edge science and timeless wisdom, this book provides the motivation and tools you need to achieve greater balance, better health, and a more panoramic perspective on life.
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Aryadeva's Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way
by Aryadeva, commentaries by Gyel-tsap and Geshe Sonam Rinpoche, translated by Ruth Sonam
Through philosophic inquiry and reasoning, Mahayana practitioners eliminate obstructions to liberation and gain perfect knowledge of all phenomena, requiring selflessness, a vast accumulation of merit, or positive energy, and altruistic intention. The first half of this text focuses on the development of merit by showing how to correct distorted ideas about conventional reality and how to overcome disturbing emotions. The second half explains the nature of ultimate reality.
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Lion of Siddhas: The Life and Teachings of Padampa Sangye
translated by David Molk, transmission by Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche
Padampa Sangye's teaching methods were unorthodox and sometimes extreme, encouraging his students to go beyond their cultural conditioning. He inspired innumerable highly realized disciples, including many women. Lion of Siddhas offers two texts, Padampa Sangye's biography, and a rare collection of his teachings, recorded almost a thousand years ago. Both are previously untranslated.
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Vinegar into Honey: Seven Steps to Understanding and Transforming Anger, Aggression, and Violence
by Ron Leifer, M.D.
Vinegar into Honey offers a new way of understanding the relationship between stress and our most painful emotions, providing helpful methods for working with them. It uses key tenets of Buddhist psychology and practice to transform our suffering into equanimity and compassion. "Easily one of the best books on understanding and transforming anger, aggression, and violence that I have ever read."—Albert Ellis
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Buddhism for Busy People: Finding Happiness in an Uncertain World
by David Michie
What does it take to be happy? We've all asked ourselves this question, but few of us have found the path to lasting fulfillment. In this simple, beautifully written book, David Michie weaves the story of his personal path with insights, core teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, and helpful exercises. He shares with us how he discovered the difference between the temporary pleasures of ordinary life, and the profound sense of well-being and serenity that comes from connecting with our inner nature.
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Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chözang on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity
by Heidi I. Köppl
Establishing Appearances as Divine goes beyond the themes addressed by many books on Tibetan Buddhism--mind training, compassion, and proper conduct--aiming to bring the reader face to face with his or her divine and pure nature. Rongom Chokyi Zangpo's concise treatise sets out to prove the provocative point that everything that appears is actually the deity manifest. A magical interplay between rationality, truth, and divinity.
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A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
by John Powers
A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of meditation and tantra, and provides a survey of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Lucid and economical, this is essential reading for those who want to understand the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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Tsong-kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom
by Jeffrey Hopkins, edited by Kevin Vose
Tsong-kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom brilliantly explicates ignorance and wisdom, explains the relationship between dependent-arising and emptiness, shows how to meditate on emptiness, and explains what it means to view phenomena as like illusions.
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The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four: Esoteric Instructions
by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, translated and annotated by Sarah Harding, foreword by Thrangu Rinpoche
Here, Jamgon Kongtrul, the widely-respected scholar-adept, elucidates the meaning of the esoteric instructions found in the eight great lineages. Sarah Harding renders the translation with great skill, adding historical overviews, offering a volume of great benefit to scholars of comparative studies, as well as students of meditation.
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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
Emptiness is not a mystical sort of "nothingness"--it is a specific truth that can be understood through calm and careful reflection. This magnificent, readable, engaging book is a modern classic in the making, brimming with common sense and apt examples. Learned scholars and beginning students alike will find this to be a great help in understanding a core concept in Mahayana Buddhism--that ultimate reality is "emptiness."
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Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self
by Anne Carolyn Klein
The figure of The Great Bliss Queen, important to Buddhist enlightenment, can help us be at one with ourselves and fully engaged with others. This artful, elegant, and lively book reveals how Buddhist practices such as mindfulness and compassion can be important resources for contemporary women, while the feminist perspective can broaden the range of Buddhist concerns to include social, historical, and psychological issues. An astute and absorbing exploration of the interface between Buddhism and Feminist perspectives.
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A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for Connecting with Others
by Jeffrey Hopkins, foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations, visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his own life to help us develop an awareness of our capacity for love, and learn to project that love into our world. Anyone seeking release from anger and hurt or desiring to increase love and caring in the world will welcome this timely vision for humanity.
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In Praise of Dharmadhatu
by Nagarjuna, commentary by the Third Karmapa, translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhölzl
This book is a great resource for those who want to explore the teachings on buddha nature. It delves into Nagarjuna's scriptural legacy, and uses commentary by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje and other commentators to reveal the state of ordinary sentient beings, the path of bodhisattvas, and how to achieve the full bloom of buddhahood.
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Great Perfection: Outer and Inner Preliminaries
by the Third Dzogchen Rinpoche, translated by Cortland Dahl, introduction by Dzogchen Ponlop
In the Nyingma School, the Great Perfection is considered the most profound and direct path to enlightenment, a spiritual shortcut, a direct approach that cuts through confusion and reveals the mind's true nature of luminous purity. The preliminary practices provide a foundation for all spiritual progress, helping dislodge deeply ingrained patterns. An inspiring book.
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King of the Empty Plain: The Tibetan Iron-Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo
by Cyrus Stearns
This legendary Buddhist teacher is one of the most intriguing figures in Tibetan history. His long lifespan, profound teachings, unprecedented engineering and architectural feats, eccentric deeds, and creation of Tibetan opera make him one of Tibet's most inspiring and loved personalities. Stearns' careful research and translation beautifully bring Gyalpo's story to life.
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Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
(revised edition)
by John Powers
Newly revised and expanded, this most comprehensive, authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism covers a wide variety of topics--origins and history, doctrines, meditation practices, schools, religious festivals, and major figures. Added material includes Tibet's recent history, tantra, and important new publications. Systematic and wonderfully clear.
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Tara's Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary on The Twenty-one Praises to Tara
by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Tara helps all beings to reach enlightenment by clearing away fears and overpowering negative emotions, transforming practitioners' minds into her enlightened qualities. Illuminated with humor, stories, and wisdom, this book takes readers of all traditions through progressively more subtle levels--from basic Buddhism to inner Tantras and Dzogchen.
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