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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 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	THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, trans. by Elizabeth M. Callahan Cloth, 476 pp. #TRKN63 - regular price $ 34.95 Our Price $27.96 Published by Snow Lion In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as it was preserved in Tibet. This volume, Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy, is his masterful survey of the broad themes and subtle philosophical points found in more than fifteen hundred years of Buddhist philosophical writings. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE- Book One: Myriad Worlds by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, trans. by the Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group, under the direction of Ven. Bokar Rinpoche 301 pp., cloth edition. #TRKN1 - regular price $ 29.95 Our Price $23.96 Published by Snow Lion In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE: Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, trans. by Ingrid McLeod and Elio Guarisco Cloth edition, 576 pp. #TRKN6 - regular price $ 35.95 Our Price $28.76 Published by Snow Lion In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. More ...
Click to enlarge	A TRUTHFUL HEART: Buddhist Practices for Connecting with Others by Jeffrey Hopkins, foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 218 pp., paper. #TRHEBU - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 Published by Snow Lion The Dalai Lama often says, "Kindness is society." By learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, Jeffrey Hopkins writes, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his own life to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and learning to project that love into the world around us. More ...
Click to enlarge	VINEGAR INTO HONEY: Seven Steps to Understanding and Transforming Anger, Aggression, and Violence by Ron Leifer, M.D. 144 pp. #VIHOSE - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 Published by Snow Lion Our desires and our fears are woven into a tangled web of conflicts. We want both to eat dessert and to be thin. We want money but don’t want to work. Anything that threatens our sense of self and its striving for happiness is perceived as a threat to our very lives—the response to which is defensiveness, anger, aggression, and violence. More ...
Click to enlarge	WISDOM NECTAR: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice trans. by Ron Garry, a Tsadra Foundation Series book Cloth. 428 pp. #WINEDU - regular price $ 29.95 Our Price $23.96 Published by Snow Lion Dudjom Rinpoche was one of the seminal figures in Tibetan Buddhism in the twentieth century, yet very few of his religious writings have been translated into English. This volume contains a generous selection of his inspiring teachings and writings, the core of which is a lengthy discussion of the entire path of Dzogchen, including key instructions on view, meditation, and conduct, along with direct advice on how to bring one's experiences onto the path. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTION: The Challenge of Individuation in Buddhist Life by Rob Preece 335 pp., paper. #WIIM - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion If you have been practicing Buddhism for a while, why do you still have problems? And how do you balance the (apparently) sometimes different needs of spiritual and psychological perspectives? This wonderful book fills a hitherto unmet need among Buddhists. More ...
Click to enlarge	YOGA TANTRA: Paths to Magical Feats by H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzongkaba, and Jeffrey Hopkins (and ed.) 176 pp., 8 b&w illustrations. Book 3 of the Great Exposition of Secret Mantra series. #YOTR - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion The Dalai Lama opens the door to the topic of Yoga Tantra with an extraordinarily detailed teaching on a classic text. Rarely in the Dalai Lama's lifetime has he given teachings of such a nature on this topic. There follows a translation of the Yoga Tantra section of Dzong-ka-ba's The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, one of his most important works and a monument of Tibetan Buddhist literature. Jeffrey Hopkins concludes this book with an outline of the steps of Yoga Tantra practice. This is an invaluable book for anyone who is practicing or interested in Buddhist tantra in general. More ...
Click to enlarge	ZURCHUNGPA'S TESTAMENT by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, translated by Padmakara Translation Group Cloth, 420 pp. #ZUTE - regular price $ 29.95 Our Price $23.96 Published by Snow Lion Zurchungpa's Eighty Chapters of Personal Advice was the final teaching given by the great Nyingma master Zurchung Sherab Trakpa; before he passed away. His counsels are the distillation of a lifetime's experience and comprise the practical instructions of a master who had made the teachings of the Great Perfection truly part of himself. The original text consists of almost 580 maxims organized into eighty chapters covering the entire path of Dzogchen, from fundamental teachings on devotion and renunciation through to a whole series of pith instructions that bring the Dzogchen view to life. Much of the meaning of these pithy, often cryptic instructions could be lost on the reader without the help of the notes Shechen Gyaltsap Rinpoche provided in his annotated edition, which he based on the explanations he received from his own teacher, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. More ...
Click to enlarge	ABHIDHARMAKOSABHASYAM by Louis de la Vallee Poussin, trans.by Leo M. Pruden 1600 pp., cloth. #ABKOBH - $ 300.00 This four-volume masterwork starts with abhidharma literature and covers a vast array of Buddhist topics, including Buddhist cosmology and ethical theory, a taxonomy of meditative states and more. The most important compendium of Indian Buddhist philosophy and psychology. More ...
Click to enlarge	ABHIDHARMASAMUCCAYA by Asanga, trans. By Walpola Rahula & Sara-Boin Webb 360 pp, notes, glossary, index, cloth. #AB - $ 75.00 There are two systems of Abhidharma according to the Tibetan tradition, the lower and the higher. The lower system is taught in the Abhidharmakosa, while the higher system is taught in this book--the two books form a complementary pair. Asanga is the founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. His younger brother Vasubandhu wrote the Abhidharmakosa before Asanga converted him to Mahayana Buddhism. The Samuccaya follows the traditional prose question and answer style of the older Pali Abhidharma texts. Rahula's excellent translation was based on Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan.
Click to enlarge	ABHISAMAYALAMKARA WITH VRTTI AND ALOKA Vrtti Volume 1 by Arya Vimuktisena, Aloka by Haribhadra, trans. by Gareth Sparham; Volume 2 by Tsong kha pa Vol. 2, Second and Third Abhisamaya. Cloth, 204 pp. #ABVRA2 - $ 90.00 Maitreya's Abhisamayalamkara is the most widely studied book in Tibet, used in all monasteries. Here it is presented with the oldest extant commentary by Vimuktisena, from which Haribhadra, the most influential Indian commentator drew to write his Alika. An important and valuable work. More ...
Click to enlarge	Vrtti Volume 1 by Arya Vimuktisena, Aloka by Haribhadra, trans. by Gareth Sparham; Volume 2 by Tsong kha pa Vol. 1, First Abhisamaya. Cloth, 360 pp. (See description above.) #ABVRAL - $ 90.00
Click to enlarge	ADVENTURES WITH THE BUDDHA: A Buddhism Reader ed. by Jeffery Paine 412 pp. #ADBUBU - $ 16.95 Jeffery Paine has assembled the breathtaking adventures of nine Western travelers who chance across Buddhism and made it an integral part of their lives. Touching ground in China, Tibet, Japan, Nepal, India, and America, Adventures with the Buddha yields intimate access to Buddhist belief through real people and true stories. From enchanting, now-lost kingdoms in Asia to the American workplace where a practitioner is profitably applying the dharma, Adventures with the Buddha is a tour across nations, generations, and, ultimately, a vast spiritual landscape. More ...
Click to enlarge	ADVICE FROM THE LOTUS-BORN: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples intro. by H.E. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche 184 pp. #ADLOBO - $ 18.00 Padmasambhava's penetrating instructions to the dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and other close disciples from the terma treasure revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Ozer, Guru Chowang, Pema Ledrel Tsal, Sangye Lingpa, Rigdzin Godem, and Chokgyur Lingpa. This advice is meant to be practiced in all circumstances.
Click to enlarge	THE ARROW AND THE SPINDLE: Studies in History, Myths, Rituals and Beliefs in Tibet by Samten G. Karmay 237 pp.,figures, biblio, index. #ARSP - $ 19.95 This valuable collection may be best described by listing the contents: More ...
Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	ARYADEVA'S LAMP THAT INTEGRATES THE PRACTICES: The Gradual Path of Vajrayana Buddhism According to the Esoteric Community Noble Tradition by Christian K. Wedemeyer Cloth. 826 pp. #ARLATH - $ 62.00 Simultaneously exegetical and apologetic, the Lamp that Integrates the Practices is a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the most advanced yogas of the Esoteric Communion (Guhyasamaja) Tantra as espoused by the Noble Tradition, an influential school of interpretation within the Mahayoga traditions of Indian Buddhist esoterism. Basing itself on the Five Stages (Pancakrama) of Nagarjuna, Aryadeva's work is perhaps the earliest prose example of a "stages of the mantra path" work in Sanskrit, and its studied gradualism exerted immense influence on later Tibetan tradition. More ...
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