Sutras & Suttas
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THE HEART SUTRA: An Oral Teaching by Geshe Sonam Rinchen, trans. & ed by Ruth Sonam 128 pp. #HESU - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 Published by Snow Lion This short gem of a book shows how distorted perceptions and disturbing emotions--arising from our misunderstanding of reality--can be completely uprooted, resulting in a freedom from suffering. Understanding the nature of reality is the key to liberation. The wonderfully concise Heart Sutra is considered the essence of the Buddhas' teachings. More ... | |
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ANALYSIS OF THE ABHISAMAYALAMKARA by E. Obermiller 404 pp., English, Sanskrit, Tibetan. #ANAB - $ 40.00 The Abhisamayalamkara is the text used in the Tibetan monastic curriculum to teach the path to Buddhahood. The Indian teacher Asanga requested the future Buddha Maitreya to systematize the teachings on the path from the Prajnaparamita Sutras and this work was the result. It is studied in Tibet with commentaries. Obermiller studied it with Tibetan teachers and wrote this commentary. More ... | |
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AN ARROW TO THE HEART by Ken McLeod 144 pp., with line drawings. #ARHEAR - $ 19.95 Free of the cultural clothing in which Buddhism came to the West, An Arrow to the Heart goes straight to the heart of the Heart Sutra, throwing the reader into the very emptiness the Heart Sutra describes. The Heart Sutra is an ancient and highly revered text in Mahayana Buddhism--a concise presentation of the emptiness of all experience. Almost cryptic in its brevity, it confounds and inspires all who read it. More ... | |
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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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THE CONNECTED DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya trans.by Bhikkhu Bodhi 2,080 pp., cloth. #CODIBU - $ 95.00 A complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya--the third great collection of the Buddha's discourses preserved in the Pali Canon--containing all of the important short suttas on such major topics as the Four Noble Truths, dependent origination, and the Noble Eightfold Path--this is one of the most inspiring and indispensable compilations in the Buddhist canon. More ... | |
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THE DHAMMAPADA: The Sayings of the Buddha rendered by Thomas Byrom 133 pp., cloth. #DHSABU - $ 14.50 The Dhammapada is the path of virtue, or the way of truth. These pithy sayings of the Buddha instruct and inspire--and can be read over and over. More ... | |
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ELABORATIONS ON EMPTINESS: Uses of the Heart Sutra by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 320 pp. #ELEMP - regular price $ 26.95 Our Price $21.56 The Heart Sutra is the most famous Buddhist text--a potent expression of emptiness and the Buddha's perfect wisdom. Lopez explores its elaborate philosophical and ritual use in India, Tibet, and the West. | |
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ESSENCE OF THE HEART SUTRA: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings by H.H. the Dalai Lama, trans. & ed. by Thupten Jinpa 180 pp. #ESHEP - $ 14.95 In Essence of the Heart Sutra, the Dalai Lama masterfully unpacks the Heart Sutra so that any reader can benefit from its teachings--teachings meant to help us release ourselves from suffering and live with true compassion. Comprised of his "Heart of Wisdom" talks, originally delivered to thousands of listeners in 2001, the book offers the Dalai Lama's commentary as well as his easy-to-follow overview of Buddhist philosophy that places the sutra within its historical and philosophical context. With additional contributions by scholar and translator Thupten Jinpa, Essence of the Heart Sutra is the authoritative presentation of a text seminal to the world's religious heritage. More ... | |
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GOLDEN GARLAND OF ELOQUENCE by Tsong Kha Pa, trans. by Gareth Sparham Cloth. 665 pp. #GOGAEL - $ 150.00 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). His first major work, it 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. | |
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THE HEART SUTRA EXPLAINED: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 230 pp. #HESUEX - $ 29.95 Offers new insights on this sutra and on the synthesis of Madhyamika, Yogacara, and tantric thought that characterized the final period of Buddhism in India--it includes complete translations of two nineteenth-century Tibetan commentaries: Stan dar lha ram pa's Commentary on the Heart Sutra, Jewel Light Illuminating the Meaning, and Gung thang dKon mchog Stan pa'i sgron me's An Explanation of the Heart Sutra Mantra, Illuminating the Hidden Meaning. More ... | |
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HEART SUTRA Practices and Instruction for Retreat as advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 60 pp. spiral-bound. #HESUPR - $ 18.00 Practical instructions on how to meditate on emptiness: how the experience of meditating on emptiness should feel, how to avoid mistakes in your meditation, and keys for laying a successful foundation for your practice. More ... | |
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IN THE BUDDHA'S WORDS: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon ed. and intro. by Bhikkhu Bodhi, fore. by the Dalai Lama 496 pp. #INBUW - $ 18.95 This unique anthology arranges the Buddha's discourses so as to bring to light the underlying patterns beneath them. The Buddha talks on a variety of topics ranging from family life and marriage to renunciation and the path of insight. Bhikkhu Bodhi--the author of numerous translations--prefaces each chapter with an illuminating introduction. More ... | |
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THE KEY TO THE TREASURY OF SHUNYATA: Dependant Arising and Emptiness comm. by Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin 350 pp., Tibetan text. #KETRSH - $ 15.00 The purpose of this text is to clarify the ultimate nature of phenomena. The masterful Khensur Lobsang Tharchin does this by commenting on two texts: A Praise to the Unsurpassed Teacher, The Buddha Bhagavan, for Teaching the Profound through Dependent Arising by Je Tsongkhapa and also the Heart Sutra. | |
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KING OF SAMADHI by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche #KISA - $ 17.00 The Samadhi Raja Sutra forms the perfect link between the Mahayana training of a bodhisattva and the most profound tradition of Buddhist meditation practice known as Mahamudra. | |
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THE LARGE SUTRA ON PERFECT WISDOM with the Divisions of the Abhisamayalankara trans. & ed. by Edward Conze 679 pp. #LASUPE - $ 34.95 A full translation of the 100,000 line perfection of wisdom sutra. Buddha Shakyamuni explains the evolution of beings into bodhisattvas and buddhas. A major portion of the traditional training offered in Tibetan monasteries is based on this text. More ... | |
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LONG DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya by Maurice Walshe 648 pp., cloth. #LODIBU - $ 45.00 Contains thirty-four longer length suttas from the Pali Canon. Includes the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness, morality, concentration, wisdom, dependent origination, the roots and causes of wrong views and a long description of Buddha's passing. | |
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MIDDLE LENGTH DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya trans. by Bhikkhu Nanamoli & Bhikkhu Bodhi 1416 pp., cloth. #MILEDI - $ 65.00 This collection of 152 suttas, which range from basic ethics to instructions in meditation and liberating insight, unfolds in fascinating scenarios that show the Buddha in living dialogue. Replete with drama, reasoned argument, and illuminating parables and similes, the Buddha displays the full glory of his resplendent wisdom, majestic sublimity, and compassionate humanity. More ... | |
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MOTHER OF THE BUDDHAS: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra by Lex Hixon, foreword by Robert A.F. Thurman 275 pp. #MOBU - $ 16.00 The Prajnaparamita Sutra in 8,000 Lines sets forth the bodhisattva path in conversations between the Buddha and his disciples Sariputra, Subhuti, and Ananda. Lex Hixon's "contemplative expansion" of forty passages from the original Sutra yields a text of devotional beauty that is dramatic and uplifting. More ... | |