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Click to enlarge	CRAZY WISDOM by Chogyam Trungpa 216 pp. #CRWI - regular price $ 21.95 Our Price $17.56 Crazy Wisdom is an exploration of the unconventional life and teaching methods of the great master who brought Buddhism to Tibet--and the implications for those on the Buddhist path. Rinpoche examines the life of Padmasambhava to illustrate the principle of crazy wisdom. From this viewpoint, spiritual practice does not provide comfortable answers to pain or confusion--rather they are challenging opportunities for new discovery. More ...
Click to enlarge	DGE-'DUN-CHOS-'PHEL: A Biography of the 20th-Century Tibetan Scholar by Irmgard Mengele 153 pp., 7 b&w photos, Tibetan text. #GECH - regular price $ 12.00 Our Price $9.60 dGe-'dun-chos-'phel (1902-1951) completed a traditional Tibetan education, left the monastic society to travel abroad where he learned languages and deepened his knowledge. Renowned in Tibet as a brilliant scholar, a talented artist, a highly gifted poet, an excellent translator, and a skillful dialectician, he was controversial and well-known non-conformist. This scholarly presentation has a Tibetan and English biography and extensive bibliography. More ...
Click to enlarge	DOMTONPA Card #GAC151 - regular price $ 1.00 Our Price $0.75 Domtonpa (1004-1064) was the chief Tibetan disciple of the great Indian master Atisha.
Click to enlarge	DRAGON THUNDER: My Life with Chogyam Trungpa by Diana J. Mukpo with Carolyn Rose Gimian Cloth, 406 pp. #DRTH - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $19.96 "It was not always easy to be the guru's wife," says Mukpo, who began her marriage to Chogyam Trungpa at the age of 16. "But I must say, it was rarely boring." This intimate, fascinating memoir takes us behind the scenes of life with this enigmatic, powerful teacher who left such an impact on Tibetan Buddhism in the West. More ...
Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	THE EIGHT VERSES FOR TRAINING THE MIND by the Dalai Lama 4 cassettes in a slip box. #EIVETR - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $12.47 How do we free ourselves from the demon of self-concern? These instructions are found in Eight Verses for Training the Mind, one of the most important texts from a genre of Tibetan spiritual writings known as lojong (literally "mind training"). The root text was written by the eleventh-century meditator Langri Tangpa. His Holiness the Dalai Lama refers to this work as one of the main sources of his own inspiration and includes it in his daily meditations. More ...
Click to enlarge	ELABORATIONS ON EMPTINESS: Uses of the Heart Sutra by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 320 pp. #ELEMP - regular price $ 26.95 Our Price $21.56 The Heart Sutra is the most famous Buddhist text--a potent expression of emptiness and the Buddha's perfect wisdom. Lopez explores its elaborate philosophical and ritual use in India, Tibet, and the West.
Click to enlarge	THE EMPTINESS OF EMPTINESS: An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika by C.W. Huntington, Jr. & with Geshe Namgyal Wangchen 287 pp., paper. #EMEM - regular price $ 22.00 Our Price $17.60 A readable translation and study of Candrakirti's The Entry into the Middle Way, a treatise of critical importance to Buddhism's development in Tibet. "Huntington's philosophical interpretation is argued with force and clarity. It corrects (with panache) many misinterpretations of Madhyamika current among Anglophone writers."--Journal of the American Oriental Society
Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	FIFTY STANZAS ON THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER by Aryashura, comm. by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey 38 pp. #FISTSP - regular price $ 8.95 Our Price $7.16 Tells how to cultivate the proper relationship between a student and his or her teacher.
Click to enlarge	FOUNDATIONS OF DHARMAKIRTI'S PHILOSOPHY by John D. Dunne 512 pp. #FODHPH - regular price $ 39.95 Our Price $31.96 The work of Dharmakirti, a central figure in the history of Buddhist philosophy, is illuminated in this extraordinary piece of scholarship. John Dunne presents the first major study of the most vexing issues in Dharmakirti's thought within its Indian philosophical context. Dunne's work serves both as an introduction to Dharmakirti for serious students of Buddhism and a groundbreaking resource for scholars of Buddhist thought. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL HOPES: Guru Devotion in Tibetan Buddhism trans. & ed. by Gareth Sparham 160 pp. #FUALHO - regular price $ 15.95 Our Price $12.76 Why is it important to have a spiritual teacher? How does one enter into such a relationship intelligently? Devotion to the guru is much misunderstood yet fundamental to Tibetan tantric Buddhism. Tsongkhapa explains this core practice.
Click to enlarge	A GARLAND OF GOLD by Jampa Thaye 127 pp., 12 b&w plus 1 color illustrations. #GAGO - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $12.71 A history of the early masters of the Kagyu tradition, charting the flow of esoteric teaching from India to Tibet. Also includes translations of 5 mahamudra songs composed by early lineage holders. Jampa Thaye is dharma-regent of Karma Thinley Rinpoche.
Click to enlarge	GATES TO BUDDHIST PRACTICE by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche 285 pp., index. #GABUPR - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 This collection of teachings first grounds the practitioner in Buddhist principles and then dives deep into the Vajrayana. It captures the warmth and vastness of Rinpoche's heart-mind, the humor of his stories and the simplicity with which he communicates the spiritual path. More ...
Click to enlarge	GESHE CHODRAK'S TIBETAN-TIBETAN DICTIONARY--MAC version by Tony Duff CD-Rom for MAC. #TITIM - regular price $ 75.00 Our Price $60.00 The last major Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary produced in Tibet (1940's) before the communist Chinese takeover. This dictionary has extensive listings of terms. This is a true Tibetan dictionary in Tibetan text; useful for Tibetans themselves and students of the Tibetan language who want a native Tibetan dictionary uncluttered by English or Chinese definitions. The definitions given are short but clear. This dictionary has been overshadowed by the Great Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary; we think this new edition will bring it back and give it the place it deserves. A must for serious students and scholars of the language. Comes with Reader software designed specifically for the purpose, and Tibetan and diacriticals typefaces. Software has Wylie and standard Tibetan keyboards. New Mac format. (For PC computers, see Geshe Chodrak's Tibetan-Tibetan Dictionary--PC format.) More ...
Click to enlarge	THE GREAT IMAGE: The Life Story of Vairochana the Translator trans. by Ani Jinba Palmo, fore. by Dilgo Khyentse 304 pp. #GRIM - regular price $ 22.95 Our Price $17.21 Spiritually inspiring autobiography of this great 8th-century Tibetan master, including the stories of his 16 trials as well as the history of how the Buddha's teachings were passed from one Indian sage to the next until Vairochana brought them to Tibet. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE HEALTHY MIND INTERVIEWS ed. by Henry Miles Vyner MD Tsewang Gyatso #HEMIIN - regular price $ 9.95 Our Price $7.96 What makes for a healthy mind? Each pocket-sized volume in this well-conceived series asks this very pertinent question, and other probing questions, of a different master. The most exciting thing about these interviews is that they present direct descriptions of the healthy or egoless mind as it has been experienced by these lamas. Edited by an MD interested in practical descriptions of how lamas experience and describe mental health on all levels. Very interesting material on Dzogchen and subtle states. Three different volumes of interviews with: More ...
Click to enlarge	ed. by Henry Miles Vyner MD Lopon Tegchoke (See description above.) #HEMILO - regular price $ 9.95 Our Price $7.96
Click to enlarge	ed. by Henry Miles Vyner MD Nyima Wangyal (See description above.) #HEMINY - regular price $ 9.95 Our Price $7.96
Click to enlarge	A HISTORY OF MODERN TIBET, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State by Melvyn Goldstein 898 pp. #HIMOTI - regular price $ 39.95 Our Price $31.96 Presents a large number of documents that reveal the play of forces before the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Very well-researched yet criticized for its viewpoint on the events it documents. More ...
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