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THE BODYLESS DAKINI DHARMA: The Dakini Hearing Lineage of the Kagyus, the Original Vajra Verses, Sadhana, and Padma Karpo's Thorough Explanation compiled by Tony Duff 190 pp. #BODADH - $ 25.00 The hearing lineage Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini teachings were obtained in person by Tilopa when he stormed the palaces of Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi. The teachings from Vajravarahi became known as the Bodyless Dakini teaching and were passed down through the Kayu lineage. The Dakini Hearing lineage, as it is called, is one of the root teachings of the Kagyu. It is a very important for Kagyu practitioners in general and especially for Vajrayogini and Chakrasamvara practitioners. More ... | |
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A BOLT OF LIGHTNING FROM THE BLUE: The Vast Commentary on Vajrakila by Martin J. Boord 412 pp. #BOLIBL - $ 79.95 Beginning with Sanskrit sources that explain the development of kila lore on the southern side of the Himalayan divide, the discussion then presents the Tibetan texts that show us just how this lore was assimilated upon its transmission to the north. Included herein are two short tantras of Vajrakila and a full translation of the most important commentary ever written on the subject of kila rites and their practice for enlightenment. Composed by Padmasambhava, Vimalamitra and Shilamanju, all evidence points to the fact that this remarkable text marks the very origin of the tantric Buddhist cult of the wrathful deity Vajrakila. 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 - $ 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 ... | |
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THE BOOK OF KADAM: The Core Texts trans. by Thupten Jinpa Cloth, 768 pp. #BOKACO - $ 59.95 From the Dalai Lama’s principal translator comes this essential collection of teachings from Buddhism’s Kadam school, which emerged from the teachings of the Indian master Atisha and his principal student, Dromtönpa. Kadam is revered for its practical application of the bodhisattva’s More ... | |
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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 ... | |
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BRILLIANT MOON by Dilgo Khyentse, trans. by Ani Jinba Palmo, forewords by the Dalai Lama, Sogyal Rinpoche, and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, and Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche 350 pp. #BRMOPA - $ 29.95 Through lively anecdotes and stories this highly revered Buddhist meditation master and scholar tells about his life of study, retreat, and teaching. More ... | |
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BUDDHA'S BRAIN: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson, with Richard Mendius, foreword by Daniel J. Siegel, preface by Jack Kornfield 270 pp., 7 line drawings. #BUBRHA - $ 17.95 The Buddha and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world. Science is now revealing how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain. By combining breakthroughs in neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can use your mind to shape your brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom. More ... | |
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THE BUDDHA'S WAY OF HAPPINESS: Healing Sorrow, Transforming Negative Emotion and Finding Well-Being in the Present Moment by Thomas Bein, foreword by Lama Surya Das 252 pp. #BUWAHA - $ 17.95 The excitement you feel after hearing good news or achieving a goal is fleeting, but true happiness—that is, the warm feeling of deep contentment and joy—is lasting, and it can be yours in every moment. The Buddha's Way of Happiness is a guide to putting aside your anxieties about the future, regrets about the past, and constant longing to change your life for the better, and awakening to the joy of living. More ... | |
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BUDDHA HEART PARENTING: Enrich Your Family with Buddhist Wisdom and Compassion by Dr. C.L. Claridge 230 pp. #BUHEPA - $ 18.95 Buddha Heart Parenting offers the reader deep insights into how to integrate Buddhist philosophy with contemporary psychology to arrive at a method of parenting that is both effective and enables family members to realise their true Buddha nature. It provides a frank look at the norms and status of parenting today, and suggests ways to develop more authentic communication using Buddhist principles. More ... | |
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BUDDHA IN YOUR BACKPACK: Everyday Buddhism for Teens by Franz Metcalf, illust. by Monk Song Yoon 270 pp., paper. #BUYOBA - $ 14.95 "Teenage life (like other parts of life, but even more so) is really hard. You have to be a daughter or son, a sister or brother, a grandchild, an extended family member, a goof-off, a hormonally deranged adolescent, a student, a citizen, a worker, a 'future leader,' a part of the ecosystem, a psycho-spiritual being, a human person. You have to be all that. It takes some doing. This book can help. Being a teenager is an astonishing amount of work. You know that, but this book will show how deep that work is and how you can make it deeper. Your teen experience is so central to what Zen Buddhists call 'this great matter of birth and death,' that to be full awake to your teenageness is to be a genuinely spiritual person."—from the Introduction. More ... | |
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THE BUDDHA IS STILL TEACHING: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom edited by Jack Kornfield 304 pp., hardcover. #BUSTTE - $ 19.95 When the Buddha set in motion the wheel of Dharma, he knew that the teaching he gave was inexhaustible—that every future generation would find its own skillful ways to convey it to the hearts and minds of those ready to hear. The Buddha Is Still Teaching is testimony to the fulfillment of that promise today. The selections it contains, from today's most highly regarded contemporary Buddhist teachers, bring the Dharma eloquently to life for us in our own time, place, and culture. They demonstrate that two and a half millennia have done nothing to diminish the freshness of the Buddhist teachings, or their universal applicability to our lives. More ... | |
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BUDDHIST ANIMAL WISDOM STORIES by Mark W. McGinnis 8.75" x 11.25," 112 pp., hard cover. #BUANWI - $ 19.95 Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables illuminating various human virtues and foibles--from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles--which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. More ... | |
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BUDDHA STANDARD TIME: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now by Lama Surya Das 224 pp., hardback, with numerous exercises and inspirational phrases. #BUSTTI - $ 25.99 We're all given the same twenty-four hours a day. We can spend our time feeling hurried and harried, overwhelmed by chores and demands, distracted and burned out...or we can awaken to Buddha Standard Time, the realm of timelessness where every choice, every action, and every breath can be one of renewal and infinite possibilities. More ... | |
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CALLING TO THE LAMA FROM AFAR by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche 125 pp., color plate. #CALAAF - $ 14.95 Especially in the Kagyu tradition of Mahamudra, devotion is the key to success on the path of higher teachings. One's lama is venerated as the holder of these teachings and, because of his or her accomplishments in meditation practice, is recognized as the embodiment of their truth. The lama's affection and skill in guiding students then joins with the student's own growing admiration and trust so that the student begins to turn toward the lama again and again in the same way that a flower opens naturally to the sun. This response can be cultivated through recollection, but it can never be contrived. Genuineness provides the atmosphere in which the lama's and the student's minds can truly meet. More ... | |
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DILGO KHYENTSE: Volume One by Dilgo Khyentse 464 pp., hardcover edition. #COWOD1 - $ 65.00 The three-volume set presents the collected works in English of one of the great luminaries of Tibetan Buddhism in our time, published to mark his centennial celebration. A complete exposition of the stages of the Buddhist path is presented through Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's commentaries on the root texts of classic Tibetan masters including Patrul Rinpoche, Jigme Lingpa, Shechen Gyaltsab, and Mipham Rinpoche. Originally given orally to Western students, the texts afford a rare glimpse into the direct transmissions of a master teacher. Moreover, several of the texts have never been published before. More ... | |
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DILGO KHYENTSE: Volume Three by Dilgo Khyentse 800 pp., hardcover edition. #COWOD3 - $ 65.00 This three-volume set presents the collected works of one of the great luminaries of Tibetan Buddhism in our time, published to mark his centennial celebration. A complete exposition of the stages of the Buddhist path is presented through Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's commentaries on the root texts of classic Tibetan masters including Patrul Rinpoche, Jigme Lingpa, Shechen Gyaltsab, and Mipham Rinpoche. Originally given orally to Western students, the texts afford a rare glimpse into the direct transmissions of a master teacher. Moreover, several of the texts have never been published before. More ... | |
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DILGO KHYENTSE: Volume Two by Dilgo Khyentse 552 pp., hardcover edition. #COWOD2 - $ 65.00 This three-volume set presents the collected works of one of the great luminaries of Tibetan Buddhism in our time, published to mark his centennial celebration. A complete exposition of the stages of the Buddhist path is presented through Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's commentaries on the root texts of classic Tibetan masters including Patrul Rinpoche, Jigme Lingpa, Shechen Gyaltsab, and Mipham Rinpoche. Originally given orally to Western students, the texts afford a rare glimpse into the direct transmissions of a master teacher. Moreover, several of the texts have never been published before. More ... | |
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COMPASSION NOW! by The Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje 96 pp., paper, 2 b& w images. #CONOSE - $ 9.95 Too often compassionate feeling is left inactive. Compassion Now! is a work not only focused on how love and compassion are the root of all Buddhist practices, but is a call to put these compassionate feelings into action in the world. More ... | |