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COURTESANS AND TANTRIC CONSORTS: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual by Serinity Young 288 pp., 12 half-tones. #COTACO - $ 25.95 What are the teachings on gender in Buddhism? An examination of 2000 years of texts, iconography, and ritual practices that reveals the mosaic of beliefs that inform Buddhist views on gender and sexuality. More ... | |
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CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM by Chogyam Trungpa 250 pp. #CUTHSP - $ 14.95 Walking the spiritual path properly is a subtle process. We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthing our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism is an enlightening tour of common spiritual self-deceptions. | |
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DAKINI TEACHINGS: Padmasambhava's Oral Instructions to Lady Tsogyal by Erik Pema Kunsang 200 pp. #DATE - $ 20.00 This is a terma text of teachings given to Yeshe Tsogyal recorded in a coded language called "dakini script" and concealed until years later. The teachings translated here are instructions on the three levels of Buddhist practice. | |
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DAKINI'S WARM BREATH: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism by Judith Simmer-Brown 432 pp., line art, halftones, paperback. #DAWABP - $ 22.95 Dakini's Warm Breath is a comprehensive inquiry into the symbolism of the dakini, a semi-wrathful feminine spirit who manifests in visions, dreams, and meditation. When the meditator encounters the dakini, living spiritual experience is activated in a nonconceptual manner by her direct gaze, her radiant body, and her compassionate revelation of reality. Grounded in the author's personal encounter with the dakini, she demonstrates that the dakini symbolizes levels of personal realization up to the empty, spacious qualities of the mind itself. | |
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THE DAY OF A BUDDHIST PRACTITIONER by Bokar Rinpoche 95 pp. #DABUPR - $ 8.95 For those who must juggle work, family, friends, and the corresponding emotional mayhem, Bokar Rinpoche provides practical guidance and advice for developing mindfulness and grounding one's spiritual practice in the ordinary routines of every day life. | |
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DEAR LAMA ZOPA: Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems into Happiness by Lama Zopa 206 pp., paper edition. #DELAZO - $ 16.95 Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a master at explaining Buddhism's radical but effective methods for transforming suffering into happiness, which have been practiced and taught by Tibetans for a thousand years. It's a challenging way to think--how can it be that the things that cause us pain are actually blessings? More ... | |
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DHARMA CARDS: A Meditation Kit on the Teachings of the Buddha by Priya Hemenway 96-page book and 36 full-color cards in book-style hardcover. #DHCAME - $ 14.95 This beautifully designed set offers a simple approach to meditation, as well as an enjoyable way to learn about one of the world's great masters. Based on Gautama Buddha's Dhammapada or Way of Truth, the kit includes not only 36 illustrated cards inscribed with the Buddha's wisdom, but also an illuminating guidebook; together, they'll help create spiritual harmony in your life. The guide provides an introduction to the Buddha: his birth, search, enlightenment, Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, and much more. It also features information to help you interpret the cards, along with in-depth, individual readings of their text. As you go through the cards, you'll begin to reflect on the questions all meditators ask—about awareness, distractions, serenity—and find encouragement when you feel disheartened. More ... | |
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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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DISTINGUISHING DHARMA AND DHARMATA by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche 230 pp. #DIDHDH - $ 21.95 This brief text by Maitreya clearly identifies non-conceptual original wisdom. A wonderful, deep commentary by Thrangu Rinpoche helps the reader discern what is conventionally and what is ultimately true. More ... | |
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DIVINE STORIES: Divyavadana Part 1 trans. by Andy Rotman 506 pp. #DISTDI - $ 24.95 This wonderfully rich anthology of Buddhist "teaching stories" is packed with classical tales of princes, women, merchants, slaves, and monks. These are among the first texts inscribed by Buddhists, highlighting issues of faith, morality, offerings and so on. Very readable, these stories will keep you entertained and inspired. | |
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DOOR TO INCONCEIVABLE WISDOM AND COMPASSION by Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche, trans. by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche 176 pp. #DOINWI - $ 20.00 Bodhicitta refers to the union of loving-kindness, compassion, and wisdom of ultimate reality. Khenpo skillfully presents a full spectrum of teachings and everyday applications regarding this powerful means of spiritual transformation and realization. | |
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DREAMING THE GREAT BRAHMIN: Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha by Kurtis R. Schaeffer 256 pp. Cloth. #DRGRBR - regular price $ 49.95 Our Price $37.46 Dreaming the Great Brahmin explores the creation and recreation of Buddhist saints through narratives, poetry, art, ritual, and even dream visions. The first comprehensive cultural and literary history of the well-known Indian Buddhist poet saint Saraha, known as the Great Brahmin, this book argues that we should view Saraha not as the founder of a tradition, but rather as its product. Kurtis Schaeffer shows how images, tales, and teachings of Saraha were transmitted, transformed, and created by members of diverse Buddhist traditions in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. The result is that there is not one Great Brahmin, but many. More broadly, Schaeffer argues that the immense importance of saints for Buddhism is best understood by looking at the creative adaptations of such figures that perpetuated their fame, for it is there that these saints come to life. More ... | |
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ECSTATIC SPONTANEITY: Saraha's Three Cycles of Doha by Herbert Guenther 241 pp. #ECSPP - $ 25.00 After an account of Saraha's life and a discussion of the trilogy of songs that make up his writings, Guenther explains wholeness, body and complexity--concepts essential to understanding the three songs. The Indian source material is supplemented with references to the Dzogchen Nyingthig teaching. Includes an annotated translation of Saraha's Three Cycles of Doha. More ... | |
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EMPTY BLUE PLANET TRILOGY: Three Essays on Buddhist Philosophy by Charlie Singer, fore. by Ven. Lama Pema Wangdak 80 pp., with line drawings. #EMBLTR - regular price $ 10.00 Our Price $8.00 This brief distillation of basic doctrines of Tibetan Buddhism includes a presentation of the Four Noble Truths (the Four Reflections that turn the mind to dharma), bodhicitta, emptiness, the nature of mind, and Dzogchen. The doctrine of no-self is difficult to penetrate yet liberating in its effect when properly understood. Through study, reflection, and meditation on the no-self or empty nature of beings and things we attain the transcendent wisdom of the Prajanaparamita, and come to an understanding of things as they are. He also explores the nature of human embodiment and the apparitional nature of the world with Buddha-nature as the common thread. More ... | |
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ENLIGHTENED JOURNEY: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life by Tulku Thondup 272 pp. #ENJO - $ 23.95 Rinpoche discusses the principles of Buddhism; how to use the practice of meditation to arouse compassion; how suffering can become a more powerful tool than happiness in achieving enlightenment; the symbolic significans of holy places, temples, statues, etc. | |
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EXCELLENT BUDDHISM: An Exemplary Life by Kalu Rinpoche 160 pp. #EXBU - $ 15.95 Contains biographical reminiscences on Kalu Rinpoche, his teachings and inspiring stories about Buddhist practitioners of the past, and reflections on Buddhism and the West. | |
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FEEDING YOUR DEMONS: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict by Tsultrim Allione, foreword by Jack Kornfield Cloth. 256 pp. #FEYODE - $ 23.99 Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman's practice (Chod) to the West, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione, author of Women of Wisdom, explains that if we fight our demons they only grow stronger-- but if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the practice outlined, we can learn to overcome any obstacle and achieve freedom and inner peace. More ... | |
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FEMALE DEITIES IN BUDDHISM: A Concise Guide by Vessantara 132 pp. #FEDEBU - $ 12.95 Queens and old crones, Buddhas and goddesses, mothers and wild women. Female deities in Buddhism take many forms to inspire, beguile, rouse and protect us. Respected Western Buddhist teacher Vessantara invites us to learn more about ourselves as women and men by reflecting on these figures, for within us lie the seeds of love, wisdom and freedom that these figures symbolise in their fullness, qualities we can nurture through contemplating the beauty of these enlightened beings. More ... | |