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Click to enlarge	CULTIVATING A COMPASSIONATE HEART: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig by Thubten Chodron, foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama 208 pages, paper. #CUCOHE - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $12.76 Published by Snow Lion Perhaps the most widely known and loved deity throughout the Buddhist world, Chenrezig—also known as Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin, or Kannon—is the Buddha of Compassion. Buddhists turn to Chenrezig for protection, friendship, and inspiration on a daily basis. The meditation practice in this book—composed by a teacher with an extensive Western following—is presented as a useful manual for ease of practice. An enlightening—and often humorous—commentary by well-known author Thubten Chodron offers instructions and tips on making the practice even more relevant to daily life. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE DALAI LAMAS ON TANTRA trans. & intro. by Glenn H. Mullin Cloth, 352 pp. #DALATA - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $19.96 Published by Snow Lion Interest in Tantric Buddhism has grown tremendously in recent years, but authentic translations from classical sources remain difficult to find. The great popularity achieved by the early Dalai Lamas was due in part to the clarity and power of their tantric writings. Glenn Mullin's translations present this rich resource to a wider audience, offering a wealth of tantric materials, the most extensive such collection available in print. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE DARK RED AMULET: Oral Instructions on the Practice of Vajrakilaya by Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche Pre-order Now--Available November 2008. 160 pp. #DAREAM - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion The wrathful deity Vajrakilaya embodies the enlightened activity of all the buddhas in order to subjugate delusion and negativity that can arise as obstacles to spiritual practice. The Vajrakilaya system of meditation is practiced widely in Tibet as well as in Western Buddhist centers. More ...
Click to enlarge	DEITY, MANTRA, AND WISDOM: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche,and Getse Mahapandita, translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, fore. by Trulshik Rinpoche, fore. by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche New Revised Text Due August 2008. Cloth edition, 266 pp. #DEMAWI - regular price $ 29.95 Our Price $23.96 Published by Snow Lion Deity, Mantra, and Wisdom contains four of the most cherished Tibetan Buddhist commentaries on the practices of visualization, mantra recitation, and meditative absorption. These three elements form the core of development stage meditation, one of the most important practices of Buddhist Tantra. The authors of these timeless classics—Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche, and Getse Mahapandita—have all profoundly shaped Tibetan Buddhism with their vast scholarship and deep spiritual realization. In these eloquent and inspiring writings, they explain the fundamental philosophy of the development stage, showing not only its profound insights into the nature of reality, but also how to make this view a living experience through the practice of meditation. More ...
Click to enlarge	ESTABLISHING APPEARANCES AS DIVINE: Rongzom Ch�kyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity by Heidi I. Köppl Cloth. 160 pp., Tibetan text included. #ESAPDI - regular price $ 29.95 Our Price $23.96 Published by Snow Lion Rongzom Ch�kyi Zangpo's concise treatise Establishing Appearances as Divine sets out to prove the provocative point that everything that appears is actually the deity manifest. Transformation of both one's identity and the environment is an important principle of Tantric Buddhist philosophy. In Tantric scriptures one is instructed to visualize oneself as a deity, a divine identity who resides in a perfect sphere. By repeatedly training in this visualization one perfects the transformation and ultimately becomes the deity itself. Do the Tantric teachings hold sentient beings to be intrinsically pure and divine, or do they consider them initially flawed, to be later purified through the visualization of divinity? Is the practice of deity yoga merely a means, or is it more fundamentally connected to the nature of things? These questions were among the main concerns of Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo, the illustrious philosopher of the Nyingma School of the Early Translations. Establishing Appearances as Divine sets out to prove the provocative point that the tradition still highly regards the point of view that everything which appears is actually the deity manifest. More ...
Click to enlarge	HEALING WITH FORM, ENERGY AND LIGHT: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche 176 pp., 5 photos, 30 line drawings, glossary, bibliography. #HEWIFO - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion In the shamanic world-view of Tibet, the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are accessed through the raw powers of nature and through non-physical beings associated with the natural world. In the Tibetan tantric view, the elements are recognized as five kinds of energy in the body and are balanced with a program of yogic movements, breathing exercises, and visualizations. In these Dzogchen teachings, the elements are understood to be the radiance of being and are accessed through pure awareness. Healing with Form, Energy, and Light offers the reader healing meditations and yogic practices on each of these levels. More ...
Click to enlarge	HOW TO FREE YOUR MIND: Tara the Liberator by Thubten Chodron 224 pp. #HOFRMI - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $12.76 Published by Snow Lion The beloved deity Tara is the feminine embodiment of enlightenment. For centuries, practitioners have turned to her for protection from both external and internal dangers, from fire to arrogance. This well-written book, presented in conversational style, is an authoritative guide to the practice of Tara. Includes very helpful chapters on the whys and hows of various Tara practices as well as a commentary on the "Homage to the 21 Taras." More ...
Click to enlarge	MEDICINE BUDDHA TEACHINGS by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche 242 pp. line drawings. #MEBUTS - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion In this rare gem from Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoce, we learn more than just the details of this particular medicine Buddha practice: Rinpoche has kindly included many basic principles of tantric theory and practice in general. Anyone engage in any Vajrayana practice will find this teaching extremely useful. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE PRACTICE OF KALACHAKRA by Glenn Mullin, foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama 350 pp., illus. #PRKA - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion "This detailed study of the Kalachakra Tantra discusses the tantric path to enlightenment. Mullin outlines the four classes of tantra, compares the Kalachakra generation and completion stage yogas to mainstream tantras, and details the unique Kalachakra methods for enlightenment in this lifetime. Translations of seven essential texts on the practice of Kalachakra, including a sadhana selected by the Dalai Lama round out this excellent book."--Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal More ...
Click to enlarge	THE PRACTICE OF THE SIX YOGAS OF NAROPA translated, edited and introduced by Glenn H. Mullin 176 pp. #PRSIYO - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion 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 the Snows. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE PRACTICE OF VAJRAKILAYA by Khenpo Namdrol Rinpoche 87 pp., 5 photos, 2 line drawings. #PRVA - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 Published by Snow Lion "The practice of Vajrakilaya blazes at the heart of the ancient Vajrayana traditions of Tibet. The wrathful heruka Vajrakilaya is the yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the buddhas, manifesting in an intensely wrathful yet compassionate form in order to subjugate the delusion and negativity that can arise as obstacles to the practice of Dharma. In fact, the practice of Vajrakilaya is famous in the Tibetan Buddhist world as the most powerful for removing obstacles, destroying the forces hostile to compassion, and purifying the spiritual pollution so prevalent in this age."--Sogyal Rinpoche More ...
Click to enlarge	TARA'S ENLIGHTENED ACTIVITY: An Oral Commentary on "The Twenty-one Praises to Tara" by Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal 242 pp., 42 line drawings, 2 photos. #ENACCO - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion The female Buddhist deity Tara is an object of devotional worship and meditative practice for Tibetan Buddhists everywhere, both male and female. She clears away fears, overpowers negative emotions, and enables all beings to reach enlightenment. She has special resonance as a source of female spiritual wisdom. Tibetans of all schools and traditions recite the verses on which this commentary is based. Focused, contemplative meditation in relation to the myriad aspects of Tara work to transform the practitioner's mind into those enlightened qualities and mind states that Tara represents. More ...
Click to enlarge	TRAININGS IN COMPASSION: Manuals on the Meditation of Avalokiteshvara trans. by Tyler Dewar under the guidance of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 132 pp. #TRCOMA - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion This work includes translations of key Kagyu lineage meditation manuals for the practice of the deity of compassion Avalokiteshvara, one of the main introductory meditation practices presented in scores of Tibetan Buddhist centers across North America and Europe. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE, Book Eight, Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, trans. by Sarah Harding Now Through Sept. 30 buy 2 Treasury of Knowledge books, get 1 free! Visit The Treasury of Knowledge collection for more information. Cloth, 528 pp. #TRKN84 - regular price $ 39.95 Our Price $31.96 Published by Snow Lion Jamgon Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten volumes is a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were presented in Tibet. Tibetan Buddhist teachers expected their students to study Buddhist philosophical texts as well as practice reflection and meditation; present-day students have also realized that awakening has its source in study as well as in reflection and practice. More ...
Click to enlarge	BEING GURU RINPOCHE: A Commentary on Nuden Dorje's Terma Vidyadhara Guru Sadhana by James Low 292 pp. #BEGURI - $ 26.00 This commentary and translation of a ritual text--a "terma" or hidden treasure of Padmasambhava discovered in the 19th c.--offers the transformative tantric process of symbolic and actual identification with Guru Rinpoche. It covers all the stages of the guided meditation, and shows us how to relate them to the lived complexity of daily life. More ...
Click to enlarge	BENEFITS AND PRACTICES RELATED TO STATUES & STUPAS by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 172 pp. spiral bound. #BEPRRE - $ 24.99 Wonderfully clear, practical manual on stupas--the types, symbolic meanings, practices related to--and holy objects--precious relic mantras, blessings of, and so forth. Practices such as circumambulation, offering, practices to do at holy places and much more are described and explained.
Click to enlarge	BENEFITS AND PRACTICES RELATED TO STATUES & STUPAS part 2: Building and Blessing Holy Objects 7" x 8.25", 354 pp., spiralbound. #BEPR2 - $ 45.00 More than 2,500 years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha revealed an inconceivably powerful method for awakening and bringing peace and prosperity to the world: building holy objects. The first volume of this series, entitled Benefits and Practices Related to Statues and Stupas: Part I, presented why holy objects like statues and stupas have such a powerful effect. More ...
Click to enlarge	A BOOK OF COMMON TIBETAN BUDDHIST PRAYERS from the Shambhala Prayer Service for Universal Peace 324 pp. spiral-bound. #BOCOTI - $ 17.95 This non-sectarian collection covers a wide range of prayers that one might encounter when attending a Monlam or Prayer Festival of any of the Tibetan traditions. The useful layout includes English translation, with Tibetan transliteration on the facing page. The 36 different prayers include several key sutras, dedications of burnt offerings, aspiration prayers and more.
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