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Click to enlarge	CHOD IN THE GANDEN TRADITION: The Oral Instructions of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche by Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, edited by David Molk Also available: "Dedicating the Illusory Body as Ganachakra" & "Offering Ganachakra"--accompanying 2 CD Set with Chants--more than 2 hours long. #CHGACD - $ 19.95 Published by Snow Lion In Chöd in the Ganden Tradition we encounter not only the life and teachings of one of the greatest Tibetan masters in modern times, but also instructions in one of the most interesting Tibetan techniques for working with basic fears, applicable to Chod practitioners from all lineages. The instructions are offered with the engaging directness, wit, and stories for which Rinpoche was legendary. More ...
Click to enlarge	by Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, edited by David Molk 220 pp., 3 photos. #CHGATR - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion
Click to enlarge	CHOD PRACTICE IN THE BON TRADITION by Alejandro Chaoul, foreword by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Pre-order Now--Available February 2009. 118 pp. 12 b&w photos. #CHPRBO - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion This book is the first to trace the history of Chöd practice in Tibet's indigenous Bön tradition. Chod ("cutting through") is a meditative practice in which the practitioner imagines offering his or her body in sacrifice through elaborate contemplative visualization. Although a meditative practice, Chod is not done sitting comfortably on a cushion in a shrine room, but instead is often practiced in terrifying places like cemeteries or charnal grounds. The feelings of fear that result are used by the Chod practitioner to "cut through" his or her own ego. Chod contains elements of early shamanism, of sutric and tantric teachings also found in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and of the Tibetan highest school of Dzogchen. More ...
Click to enlarge	CHOD PRACTICE MANUAL AND COMMENTARY by the Fourteenth Karmapa Thekchok Dorje and Jamgön Kongtrül Lodö Taye, preface by H.E. Bokar Rinpoche, translated by V.V. Lama Lodö Rinpoche 144 pp. with many line drawings and illustrations. #CHPRMA - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion This splendid resource for Chöd practitioners contains the Chöd sadhana written by the Fourteenth Karmapa. This daily practice text is given in three versions: Tibetan, a phonetic rendering of the Tibetan, and English translation. Jamgön Kongtrül's commentary on the sadhana supplies necessary amplification and clarification; it is given both in English and Tibetan. An important feature of the commentary is the inclusion of illustrations for the different stages of visualization discussed within the commentary. All in all, this is an essential practice tool and reference guide for the serious Chod practitioner. More ...
Click to enlarge	MACHIG LABDRON AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHOD by Jerome Edou 244 pp. #MALA - regular price $ 19.95 Our Price $15.96 Published by Snow Lion Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept, an outstanding teacher, a mother and a founder of a unique transmission lineage known as the Chod of Mahamudra. More ...
Click to enlarge	MACHIK'S COMPLETE EXPLANATION: Clarifying the Meaning of Chod trans. & ed. by Sarah Harding. A Tsadra Foundation Series book. 368 pp., cloth. #MACOEX - regular price $ 29.95 Our Price $23.96 Published by Snow Lion Machik's Complete Explanation is the most famous book of the teachings of Machik Labdron, the great female saint and yogini of 11-12th century Tibet, now finally translated in its entirety into English. Machik developed a system, the Mahamudra Chöd, that takes the Buddha's teachings as a basis and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces. Machik's unique feminine approach was to invoke and nurture the very "demons" that we fear and hate, transforming those reactive emotions into love. It is the tantric version of developing compassion and fearlessness, a radical method of cutting through ego-fixation. More ...
Click to enlarge	FEEDING YOUR DEMONS: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict by Tsultrim Allione, foreword by Jack Kornfield Cloth. 256 pp. #FEYODE - $ 23.99 Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman's practice (Chod) to the West, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione, author of Women of Wisdom, explains that if we fight our demons they only grow stronger-- but if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the practice outlined, we can learn to overcome any obstacle and achieve freedom and inner peace. More ...