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LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF TSONGKHAPA ed. by Prof. Robert Thurman 258 pp. #LITETS - $ 18.95 Je Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) is revered as one of the most significant Tibetan Buddhist teachers whose eclectic and analytic studies and meditations in all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism resulted in the founding of the Gelugpa system of the Tibetan Buddhist heritage. More ... | |
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LIGHT COMES THROUGH: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence by Dzigar Kongtrul Pre-order Now--Available December 2009. 144 pp. #LICOPA - $ 14.95 Our thoughts and emotions can take us anywhere. In an instant they can bring us down or lift us up. If we don't attend to the mind, the source of all our thoughts and emotions, it can seem like a runaway train. Yet when guided by wisdom, our mind can lead us to awakening. How do we utilize this resource? More ... | |
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LIGHT OF WISDOM, Vol. 2 by Padmasambhava and Jamgon Kongtrul #LIWI2 - regular price $ 20.00 Our Price $16.00 Contains Padmasambhava's terma text The Gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence with The Light of Wisdom commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul. This volume explains the nature of empowerment, tantric commitments, and clarification of the development stage of deity yoga. More ... | |
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LOTUS OCEAN: Seeds of the Sublime Dharma by Chokling Rinpoche (H.E. Tsikey Chokling Tulku Mingyur Dewey Dorje Rinpoche). 66 pp. #LOOC - regular price $ 10.00 Our Price $7.00 Chokling Rinpoche is the second son of Kyabje Urgyen Tulku and the younger brother of Ven. Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. He speaks about the view and the method and explains all his lineages. He elucidates the preliminary practices, the creation and completion stages, dzogchen, the three roots and protectors, and initiation. | |
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LUMINOUS MIND: The Way of the Buddha by Kalu Rinpoche, foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama 352 pp. #LUMI - regular price $ 19.95 Our Price $15.96 Covers the full range of Buddhist practice from the basic analysis of the nature of the mind up to its ultimate refinement in the teachings of Mahamudra. His gentle words and playful stories are filled with clarity and warmth that could only arise from a profound realization of both wisdom and compassion. | |
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MANTRAS FOR WISDOM, COMPASSION AND HEALING by Bodhi Path Multi-media CD-ROM for your computer. Requires pentium 133 processor, Windows 95 or higher, sound card. #MAWICO - $ 15.00 Load this software on your computer--it's the next step beyond screen-savers. This multi-media meditation and visualization aid features images of many deities and their mantras presented in both Tibetan and English. Includes: Buddha, Manjushri, Taras, Vajrasattva, Avalokiteshvara, Medicine Buddha, Vajradhara, Milarepa, Maitreya, Padmasambhava, Lama Tsong Khapa. Will not play on CD or DVD players. Windows only, no MAC. | |
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THE MIND IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD: Enlightening the mind, Opening the Heart by Lama Surya Das 411 pp. #MIMITH - $ 16.99 For beginners and experienced practitioners alike, Lama Surya Das outlines his Six Building Blocks of Spiritual Practice and offers insight and advice not only on how to find and develop a spiritual center, but how to integrate it into your daily life. From daily meditation and yoga to creative work, journaling, volunteering in your community, and finding teachers in unexpected places, Buddhist practice can and should be part of everything you do. The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword is a practical guide to using the teachings of Buddhism to live a happier, healthier, more enlightened life. More ... | |
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MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking by Stephanie Kaza 160 pp. #MIGRPE - $ 14.00 This very readable "green practice path" offers a simple, Buddhist-inspired philosophy for environmental action in real, practical, and effective ways. It wonderfully--and helpfully--grounds environmental action in a broader context. "Kaza offers a votive of wisdom--a path to.the heart of generosity, not fear; compassionate service, not guilt. Mindfully Green is a balm to the spirit."--Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest Stephanie Kaza is a professor of Environmental Studies at U. Vermont, and editor of Hooked! and Dharma Rain. | |
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MIPAM ON BUDDHA-NATURE: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition by Douglas S. Duckworth Cloth, 288 pp. #MIBUNA - $ 80.00 Mipam (1846-1912) is one of the most prolific thinkers in the history of Tibet and is a key figure in the Nyingma tradition. This book provides an in-depth account of Mipam's view, drawing on a wide range of his works and offering several new translations. Duckworth shows how a dialectic of presence and absence permeates Mipam's writing on the Middle Way and Buddha-Nature. | |
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MODERN TIBETAN LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE ed. by Lauran Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, fore. by Matthew T. Kapstein 382 pp. Photos & illus. #MOTILI - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $16.22 The first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, this comprehensive collection brings together fourteen pioneering scholars in who examine the literary output of Tibetan authors writing in Tibetan, Chinese, and English, both in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora. The contributors explore the circumstances that led to the development of modern Tibetan literature, its continuities and breaks with classical Tibetan literary forms, and the ways that writers use forms such as magical realism, satire, and humor to negotiate literary freedom within the PRC.They provide crucial information about Tibetan writers' lives in China and abroad, the social and political contexts in which they write, and the literary-critical merits of their oeuvres. Along with deep social, cultural, and political analysis, this wealth of information clarifies the complex circumstances under which Tibetan writers negotiate the realities they face in the PRC and in the diaspora. The contributors consider not only poetry, short stories, and novels but also other forms of cultural production - such as literary magazines, films, and Web sites - that provide a public forum in the Tibetan areas of the PRC, where censorship and restrictions on public gatherings remain the norm. Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change includes a previously unavailable list of modern Tibetan works translated into Western languages and a comprehensive English-language index of names, subjects, and terms. More ... | |
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MOMENTARY BUDDHAHOOD: Mindfulness and the Vajrayana Path by Anyen Rinpoche 160 pp. #MOBUMI - $ 15.95 We think of enlightenment as something that happens all at once, but actually realization happens incrementally, from moment to moment. Through the power of the mindfulness we can attain momentary buddhahood. Anyen Rinpoche presents a vision of the crucial necessity of mindfulness in any exploration of the Buddha's path--especially the tantric path. More ... | |
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MONEY, SEX, WAR, KARMA: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution by David R. Loy 160 pp. #MOSEWA - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $12.76 Loy's "Buddhist Revolution" is nothing less than a radical change in the way we approach our lives, our planet, and our future, offering transformative insights into the causes behind worldwide troubles. More ... | |
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THE MYTH OF FREEDOM and the Way of Meditation by Chogyam Trungpa 178 pp. #MYFR - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 What is the meaning of freedom in the profound context of Tibetan Buddhism? Trungpa Rinpoche shows how our attitudes and even our spiritual practices become chains that bind us to patterns of frustration and despair. He explains how meditation brings into focus the causes of frustration and how these negative forces become aids in advancing toward true freedom. More ... | |
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NATURAL RADIANCE: Awakening to Your Great Perfection by Lama Surya Das 104 pp. book plus CD. #NARAPA - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 "One moment of total awareness is one moment of perfect enlightenment." This is the ultimate teaching of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned as Dzogchen, the subject of Lama Surya Das' newest book. In this book/CD set, he teaches for the first time a complete daily Dzogchen practice in the oral tradition as it was originally transmitted, including guided meditations and chants. More ... | |
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NATURAL WAKEFULNESS: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With by Gaylon Ferguson, foreword by Sakyong Mipham Cloth, 176 pp. Cloth at the paperback price! #NAWADI - regular price $ 21.95 Our Price $15.80 The capacity to awaken is inherent in all of us, and each and every one of us can do it. That’s the heart of Gaylon Ferguson’s remarkably encouraging message in his long-awaited first book—and it’s backed by more than thirty years of study and teaching, during which he’s inspired thousands of people on the spiritual path. The meditative mind is not something we need to attain, he says, it’s our very nature, and our desire to follow the spiritual path is nothing other than a manifestationof that nature already being there, just below the surface.He encourages us to assess our “spiritual progress” with honesty and without judgment in order to see where our sticking points are and to get past them, and he provides exercises and much practical advice. His friendly and supportive approach to meditation practice is perfect for new meditators, and it will also provide renewed inspiration for anyone who’s been practicing for years. More ... | |
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NO TIME TO LOSE: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva by Pema Chodron 408 pp., paper. #NOTILP - $ 16.95 This fresh, encouraging guide to how to become a spiritual warrior is an in-depth commentary on one of the most essential Buddhist texts, The Way of the Bodhisattva. Written by the best-selling author of When Things Fall Apart, this wonderful book is full of practical exercises and examples from everyday life that will help you to better understand and live the bodhisattva way. More ... | |
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NOW THAT I COME TO DIE: Intimate Guidance from One of Tibet's Greatest Masters by Longchenpa, introduction by Tarthang Tulku 160 pp., paper edition. #NOICOD - $ 16.95 The all-knowing Longchenpa stands at the center of the Nyingma tradition. Acknowledged by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism as one of Tibet's greatest masters, he wrote works that cover every aspect of the Buddhist path. His writings, in clear and luminous prose, have the power to awaken our own innermost knowing and inspire us to act on the knowledge we already have. More ... | |
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THE NYINGMA SCHOOL OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM: Its Fundamentals and History by Dudjom Rinpoche (Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje), translated, edited, and annotated by Matthew Kapstein and Gyurme Dorje 1584 pp., cloth. #NYSC - $ 90.00 Written by a great modern Nyingma master, Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism covers in detail and depth both the fundamental teachings and the history of Tibetan Buddhism's oldest school. This, the first English translation of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche's masterwork, constitutes the most complete work of its type in the West. It is an absolute treasure for students of the tradition, it is also an indispensable reference for anyone with an interest in Buddhism. The book includes chronologies and glossaries that elucidate Buddhist doctrine, and it provides fascinating insights into the Buddhist history of Tibet. More ... | |