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Click to enlarge	THE EIGHTH SITUPA ON THE THIRD KARMAPA'S MAHAMUDRA PRAYER Translated by Lama Sherab Dorje 208 pages, 1 drawing, 6" x 9", revised edition. #EISION - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $7.97 Published by Snow Lion Here, in one compact volume, are all of the stages of instruction on the path of mahamudra. Included are concise and complete formal instructions on the ground, path and fruition of this penetrating practice. This vast and profound commentary originates with the Eighth Situpa, a remarkable scholar and practitioner who is considered the most accomplished of all the Situ emanations. More ...
Click to enlarge	FOUNDATIONS OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM by Kalu Rinpoche 200 pp., 8 illustrations: 3 drawing and 5 photos, 6 x 9, second edition. #FOTIB2 - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $12.76 Published by Snow Lion Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism presents the fundamental practices of this tradition in a clear and easily accessible manner. Beginning with an overview of the Buddhist path, Kalu Rinpoche goes on to explain the preliminary practices of taking refuge, prostrations, Dorje Sempa purification meditation, mandala practice, guru yoga and the guru-disciple relationship. He then discusses the vows of the lay person, the bodhisattva, and the tantric practitioner. The book closes with a wonderful explanation of meditation both with and without an object and the key points of mahamudra meditation. More ...
Click to enlarge	GARLAND OF MAHAMUDRA PRACTICES by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche, trans. & ed. by Katherine Rogers 144 pp. #GAMAPR - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $8.47 Published by Snow Lion This text is a manual of practical instructions for students who are or would like to practice the path of Mahamudra in meditation. Mahamudra refers to a path to enlightenment taught by the Buddha and transmitted through the spiritual lineage of Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa and Milarepa. Gampopa, a disciple of Milarepa who lived in the eleventh century, brought together these teachings of the Buddha into one five-fold path consisting of an enlightened motivation, deity yoga, guru yoga, mahamudra and proper dedication, to which his main disciple, Pakmo Druba, gave the name "The Profound Five-Fold Path of Mahamudra". More ...
Click to enlarge	THE GELUG/KAGYU TRADITION OF MAHAMUDRA by H. H. the Dalai Lama and Alexander Berzin. 400 pp. #GEKATR - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $19.96 Published by Snow Lion Within the Gelug tradition, mahamudra teachings are exemplified in the First Panchen Lama's Root Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagy� Tradition of Mahamudra. The work presented here contains two brilliant commentaries by the Dalai Lama. Berzin's overview of mahamudra discusses the relation of mind, appearances and reality and offers practical techniques for overcoming problems due to excessive worry, anxiety and disturbing thought. This treasury of practical instruction contains extensive teachings on the nature of mind, the development of shamata, sutra and tantra levels of mahamudra, and the compatibility of Dzogchen and anuttarayoga tantra. More ...
Click to enlarge	IN PRAISE OF DHARMADHATU by Nagarjuna, commentary by the Third Karmapa, translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhölzl Cloth. 432 pp. #INPRDH - regular price $ 29.95 Our Price $23.96 Published by Snow Lion Nagarjuna is famous in the West for his works on Madhyamaka, but his poetic "collection of praises"—headed by "In Praise of Dharmadhatu"—is largely unknown. This book explores the scope, contents, and significance of Nagarjuna's scriptural legacy in India and Tibet, primarily focusing on the title work. The translation of Nagarjuna's hymn to buddha nature—here called dharmadhatu—shows how buddha nature is temporarily obscured by adventitious stains in ordinary sentient beings, gradually uncovered through the path of bodhisattvas, and finally revealed in full bloom as buddhahood. These themes are explored at a deeper level through a Buddhist "history" of mind's luminous nature and a translation of the text's earliest and most extensive commentary by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339), supplemented by relevant excerpts from all other available commentaries. 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 Ch�d, 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	MAHAMUDRA TEACHINGS OF THE SUPREME SIDDHAS by the Eighth Situpa Tenpa'i Nyinchay, H.H. the Third Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Dorje , intro. by Thrangu Rinpoche, trans. & ed. by Lama Sherab Dorje 201 pp. #MATESU - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $12.76 Published by Snow Lion Reveals powerful mahamudra practices for realizing the mind's fundamental nature. The advice and instructions on the ground, path, fruition, view, meditation and action of mahamudra are both complete and beautiful. More ...
Click to enlarge	MIND BEYOND DEATH The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Cloth. 360 pp. 4-page color insert. #MIBEDE - regular price $ 25.95 Our Price $20.76 Published by Snow Lion An indispensable guidebook through the journey of life and death, Mind Beyond Death weaves a synthesis of wisdom remarkable in its scope. With warm informality and profound understanding of the Western mind, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche makes the mysterious Tibetan teachings on the bardos—the intervals of life, death, and beyond—completely available to the modern reader. More ...
Click to enlarge	The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Pre-order Now--Available July 2008. 375 pages, 4-page color insert, new in paper. (See description above.) #MIBEDP - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion
Click to enlarge	NAKED AWARENESS: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen by Karma Chagme, comm. by Gyatrul Rinpoche, trans. by B. Alan Wallace, ed. by Lindy Steele & B. Alan Wallace 321 pp #NAAW - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $19.96 Published by Snow Lion "The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen by the 17th century adept Karma Chagme, is widely regarded as an unusually elegant synthesis of the leading Tibetan approaches to Buddhist meditation. Students and practitioners of meditation will be especially grateful to the Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche and his translator B. Alan Wallace for these ample and lucid elaborations of these instructions as they are traditionally taught."-- Matthew Kapstein, author More ...
Click to enlarge	THE NINTH KARMAPA'S OCEAN OF DEFINITIVE MEANING by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche; edited, introduced and annotated by Lama Tashi Namgyal 152 pp. #NIKAOC - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 Published by Snow Lion The most in-depth and famed text on Mahamudra ever written, The Ocean of Definitive Meaning by the 9th Karmapa offers a detailed, uniquely comprehensive presentation. Thrangu Rinpoche has distilled the essence of the 9th Karmapa's massive text and gives guidance in implementing the instructions. More ...
Click to enlarge	POINTING OUT THE DHARMAKAYA by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, foreword by the Dalai Lama, intro. by Lama Tashi Namgyal 192 pp. #POOUDH - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion At the heart of successful Mahamudra practice is the ability to get directly at the nature of mind. The 9th Karmapa was the acknowledged master of this approach. No more authoritative instructions exist than the 3 texts he wrote. This easy-to-use, practical manual, which serves also as an indispensable companion to The Ocean of Definitive Meaning, the most detailed of his texts, is so clearly laid out that the instructions are easy to recall and put to use. More ...
Click to enlarge	A SPACIOUS PATH TO FREEDOM: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Atiyoga by Karma Chagmé, comm. by Gyatrul Rinpoche, trans. by B. Alan Wallace 250 pp. #SPPAFR - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion Karma Chagme sets forth the stages of meditation practice including the cultivation of meditative quiescence and insight, the experiential identification of awareness, and the highest steps of Mahamudra and Atiyoga leading to perfect enlightenment. Drawing from his enormous textual erudition and mastery of Tibetan oral traditions, he shows how these two meditative systems can be unified into a single, integrated approach to realizing the ultimate nature of consciousness. Karma Chagm� was a major lineage-holder of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and his writings are central to the Payul Nyingma order. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE THIRD KARMAPA'S MAHAMUDRA PRAYER by Tai Situ Rinpoche, trans. & ed. by Rosemarie Fuchs 118 pp. #THKAMA - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $7.47 Published by Snow Lion The Mahamudra prayer by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, is a short yet thorough and profound text which presents all the essential points of Mahamudra teaching in terms of view, practice and fruition. It is a classic that, especially in the tradition of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, has been and is widely used whenever a disciple is given a first introduction into Mahamudra. More ...
Click to enlarge	BECOMING THE COMPASSION BUDDHA: Tantric Mahamudra in Everyday Life by Lama Yeshe, ed. by Robina Courtin 192 pp. #BECOBU - $ 14.95 Clear commentaries on a guru yoga practice that was written by the Dalai Lama to help develop compassion and wisdom, as well as on mahamudra. Teaches with examples from daily life and introduces meditation practices that all can follow. More ...
Click to enlarge	CLARIFYING THE NATURAL STATE by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal #CLNAST - $ 18.00 A practical manual for both teacher and student alike, Clarifying the Natural State covers the path from mindfulness to complete enlightenment, simply and methodically. Presenting the profound and ultimate instructions of Mahamudra, it embodies the realization of India and Tibet's greatest masters. More ...
Click to enlarge	CLOUDLESS SKY: The Mahamudra Path of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu School by Jamgon Kongtrul 152 pp. #CLSK - $ 17.00 This book opens the way to a deeper knowledge of mahamudra, a Buddhist system of meditation on the nature of mind. In providing a detailed commentary on the Vajra Song of the first Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899), the author elucidates the stages of ground, path, and fruition according to this system. More ...
Click to enlarge	A DIRECT PATH TO THE BUDDHA WITHIN: Go Lotsawa's Mahamudra Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga by Klaus-Dieter Mathes 608 pp. #DIPABU - $ 32.95 A thoughtful exploration of a renowned Buddhist master’s teachings on the key concept of Buddha-nature.The major Indian treatise on Buddha nature is the Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, and it is this core text that Klaus-Dieter Mathes focuses on in this book. More ...
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