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Click to enlarge	THE HEART ATTACK SUTRA: A New Commentary on the Heart Sutra by Karl Brunnhölzl Pre-order Now--Available May 2012. 160 pp., paper. #HEATSU - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion The radical message of the Heart Sutra, one of Buddhism's most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear; our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha's followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basic groundlessness of our existence—hence the title of this book. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE HEART SUTRA: An Oral Teaching by Geshe Sonam Rinchen, trans. & ed by Ruth Sonam 128 pp. #HESU - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) 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 ...
Click to enlarge	TANTRIC TECHNIQUES by Jeffrey Hopkins 424 pp., paper edition. #TATECH - list price $ 32.95 Our Price $23.07 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Deity yoga is the meditative practice of imagining oneself as an ideal being fully endowed with compassion, wisdom, and their resultant altruistic activities. The idea is that by imagining being a Buddha, one gets closer to actually achieving Buddhahood. Tantric Techniques will give the reader a dynamic sense of the potential of the human mind for self-transformation through step-by-step use of the imagination. More ...
Click to enlarge	A BOOK OF COMMON TIBETAN BUDDHIST PRAYERS from the Shambhala Prayer Service for Universal Peace 324 pp. spiral-bound. #BOCOTI - $ 15.95 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. More ...
Click to enlarge	BREATHE, YOU ARE ALIVE: The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing by Thich Nhat Hanh 154 pp. #BRYOAL - $ 14.95 This 20th anniversary edition of Thich Nhat Hanh's classic commentary offers new insights into one of the Buddha's most important teachings. According to the Anapanasati Sutra, maintaining awareness of our breathing is a means of awakening to the true nature of all things and arriving at spiritual liberation. Breathe, You Are Alive! outlines the Buddha's exercises of conscious breathing along with commentaries and further exercises for daily life. More ...
Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	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., paper. #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 ...
Click to enlarge	GOLDEN GARLAND OF ELOQUENCE by Tsong Kha Pa, trans. by Gareth Sparham Volume 2, cloth. 204 pp. #GOGAE2 - $ 75.00 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. More ...
Click to enlarge	by Tsong Kha Pa, trans. by Gareth Sparham Volume 1, cloth. 665 pp. (See description above.) #GOGAEL - $ 150.00
Click to enlarge	GOLDEN GARLAND OF ELOQUENCE: VOL. 3 by Tsong Kha Pa, trans. by Gareth Sparham Cloth, 314 pp. #GOGAV3 - $ 90.00 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). It is Tsong kha pa's first major work, written before his better known works on Madhyamaka. It is greatly respected and much studied by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet. The Golden Garland 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. This translation makes available, for the first time in English, an example of the rich Tibetan Perfection of Wisdom commentarial tradition and will be of interest to both scholars and informed general readers alike.
Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	LONG DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya by Maurice Walshe 648 pp., cloth. #LODIBU - list price $ 45.00 Our Price $36.00 (you save 20%) 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.
Click to enlarge	MIDDLE LENGTH DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya trans. by Bhikkhu Nanamoli & Bhikkhu Bodhi 1416 pp., cloth. #MILEDI - $ 49.95 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 ...
Click to enlarge	ORYOKI AND THE ORYOKI CHANT by Tony Duff 146 pp. #ORORCH - list price $ 20.00 Our Price $16.00 (you save 20%) Trungpa Rinpoche introduced Oryoki--the way of turning meals into meditation practice--to Western Buddhists in 1980. This book include a complete explanation of the Tibetan monastic meal liturgy and its use, and discusses a sutra that is part of the practice: The Sutra of the Recollection of the Noble Three Jewels. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE UNIVERSAL VEHICLE DISCOURSE LITERATURE (MAHAYANASUTRALAMKARA) trans. by Robert A.F. Thurman Cloth. 415 pp. #UNVEDI - list price $ 49.00 Our Price $39.20 (you save 20%) A fully annotated, critical translation of Maitreyanatha's text, as transmitted to the 4th-century adept Asanga, along with a commentary by Vasubhandu. This text emphasizes the compassion side of Buddhist thought. Inlcudes introduction, bibliography, and detailed index. More ...