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Click to enlarge	THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMGON KONGTRUL: A Gem of Many Colors trans. & ed. by Richard Barron (Chökyi Nyima), a Tsadra Foundation Series book 574 pp., cloth. #AUJA - list price $ 34.95 Our Price $24.47 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Jamg�n Kongtrul Lodr� Tay� (1813-1899) was one of the most influential figures and prolific writers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. He was a founder and the single most important proponent of the nonsectarian movement that flourished in eastern Tibet and remains popular today. Two additional texts discuss his previous lives and recount Kongtrul's final days. More ...
Click to enlarge	BORN IN LHASA by Namgyal Lhamo Taklha 201 pp., 36 b&w photos. #BOLH - list price $ 14.95 Our Price $10.46 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion "Mrs. Taklha's incredible life story is very gripping and emotional. Her writing style swept me into the story--I enjoyed this book from cover to cover."--Rinchen Dharlo, President of Tibet Fund and the Conservancy for Tibetan Arts and Culture More ...
Click to enlarge	THE BUDDHA FROM DOLPO: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen by Cyrus Stearns; a Tsadra Foundation Series book 496 pp., 16 illust., 8 color plates, cloth. #BUFRDO - list price $ 39.95 Our Price $27.97 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion "This revised edition of Cyrus Stearns's The Buddha from D�lpo is a must read for all interested in the intellectual history of Tibet. New translations of some of the key works of Dolpopa open philosophical and cosmological ideas of one of the great thinkers of the Tibetan tradition. This is a marvelous piece of scholarship."—E. Gene Smith, founder and senior research scholar, Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center More ...
Click to enlarge	COMPASSIONATE ACTION by Chatral Rinpoche, ed., intro. & annotated by Zach Larson 160 pages, including 16 pages of photos, mostly color (27 photos). #COAC - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Chatral Rinpoche, the quintessential "hidden yogi," has been a legend in the Himalayan region for the past seventy years. Although he has never traveled to the West, his amazing story and teachings have gradually been infiltrating the Western Buddhist consciousness since Father Thomas Merton first met him in 1968 and famously remarked that he was "the greatest man I ever met." More ...
Click to enlarge	THE GREAT KAGYU MASTERS: The Golden Lineage Treasury translated by Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche. 278 pages, paper. #GRKA2E - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion For inspiration, Buddhists turn to the life stories of how the great masters of their lineage struggled with their circumstances and achieved enlightenment. This important and very readable volume tells the extraordinary tales of the greatest teachers of the Kagyu, the lineage with the widest following in the U.S. These wonderful stories of miracles, great feats, and transcendence make for a fascinating, meaningful read. More ...
Click to enlarge	GURU RINPOCHE: His Life and Times by Ngawang Zangpo, a Tsadra Foundation Series book 364 pp., cloth edition. #GURIHI - list price $ 29.95 Our Price $20.96 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion To Tibetan Buddhists, Guru Rinpoch� is a Buddha. This book recounts Guru Rinpoch�'s historic visit to Tibet and explains his continuing significance to Buddhists. In doing so, it illustrates how a country whose powerful armies overran the capital of China and installed a puppet emperor came to abandon its aggressive military campaigns: this transformation was due to Guru Rinpoch�, who tamed and converted Tibet to Buddhism and thereby changed the course of Asian history. More ...
Click to enlarge	HISTORY OF THE KARMAPAS: The Odyssey of the Tibetan Masters with the Black Crown by Lama Kunsang, Lama Pemo, and Marie Aubèle Pre-order Now--Available March 2012. 332 pp., 22 color photos, 4 b&w photos, 30 illus., paper. #HIKAOD - list price $ 21.95 Our Price $15.36 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Masters of esoteric knowledge and miraculous practices, the lineage of the Karmapas descends from the great Indian tantric master Tilopa through a chain that includes Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa. The Karmapas are distinguished by their black crowns, said to have been woven by dakinis and symbolizing the activity of the buddhas. More ...
Click to enlarge	HOUSE OF THE TURQUOISE ROOF by Dorje Yudon Yuthok, trans. & ed. by Michael Harlin, foreword by Heinrich Harrer 330 pp., photos. #HOTURO - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion "...a superior book."--The Tibet Journal More ...
Click to enlarge	IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY: The Biography of Dasang Damdul Tsarong, Commander General of Tibet by D. N. Tsarong 164 pp., 43 b&w photos. #SEHICO - list price $ 14.95 Our Price $10.46 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion "One of the best books...for introducing students and general readers to modern Tibetan history before the cultural revolution"--The Journal of Asian Studies More ...
Click to enlarge	KING OF THE EMPTY PLAIN: The Tibetan Iron Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo by Cyrus Stearns, a Tsadra Foundation Series book Cloth edition, 704 pp. #TAGYKI - list price $ 49.95 Our Price $34.97 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion The legendary Buddhist master Tangtong Gyalpo (1361?-1485), "King of the Empty Plain," is familiar to every Tibetan, yet nearly unknown in the rest of the world. His incredible lifespan, profound teachings, unprecedented engineering feats, eccentric deeds, and creation of Tibetan opera have earned this fascinating figure a unique status in Tibetan culture. Believed to be the great Indian master Padmasambhava appearing again in the world to benefit living beings, Tangtong Gyalpo discovered techniques for achieving longevity that are still held in highest esteem and frequently taught six hundred years later. His construction of fifty-eight iron suspension bridges, sixty wooden bridges, 118 ferries, 111 stupa monuments, and countless temples and monasteries in Tibet and Bhutan remains an awe-inspiring accomplishment. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE LIFE AND REVELATIONS OF PEMA LINGPA trans. by Sarah Harding 200 pp., 8 color pp. #LIREPE - list price $ 14.95 Our Price $10.46 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion "An amazing and precious gift...a masterpiece on the Dzogchen teachings."-- Tulku Thubten Rinpoche More ...
Click to enlarge	THE LIFE OF GAMPOPA by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, introduction by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, illustrations by Eva van Dam 200 pp., 5 illustrations, 6" x 9", second edition. #LIGA2 - list price $ 15.95 Our Price $11.16 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Here is the first complete life story of Gampopa, foremost disciple of Milarepa and a forefather of the Kagyu lineages. Compiled from numerous Tibetan biographies, this comprehensive and inspiring rendition highlights the extraordinary details of Gampopa's meditative experiences and presents direct insights into the practice and realization of Mahamudra. A history of the Kagyu order by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa augments Gampopa's biography, illustrating this revered teacher's central role in the development of the Tibetan Kagyu lineages. A concluding essay on Mahamudra introduces Vajrayana Buddhism to beginners, while simultaneously supporting advanced practitioners with fresh insights. More ...
Click to enlarge	THE LIFE OF THE GREAT MAHASIDDHA VIRUPA written and illustrated by H.E. Dagmo Kalden D. Sakya, foreword by H.H. the Sakya Trizin 40 pp., paper, 8" x 8". #LIGRMA - list price $ 9.95 Our Price $6.96 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion "Mahasiddha Virupa is one of the famous eighty-four great Indian Masters who attained great realizations in one lifetime, thereby benefiting endless sentient beings through their spiritual attainments. In the unbroken lineage of the Sakyapa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism he is considered to be the most important guru to have upheld the Buddha Dharma by his majestic powers. He is the original master of the precious Lamdre—the Core Instructions on Non-Duality of the Path and the Result."—excerpted from the foreword by His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin More ...
Click to enlarge	THE LIFE OF SHABKAR: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin translated by Matthieu Ricard, foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama 712 pp. #LISH - list price $ 49.95 Our Price $34.97 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion The Life of Shabkar has long been recognized by Tibetans as one of the masterworks of their religious heritage. Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol devoted himself to many years of meditation in solitary retreat after his inspired youth and early training in the province of Amdo under the guidance of several extraordinary Buddhist masters. With determination and courage, he mastered the highest and most esoteric practices of the Tibetan tradition of the Great Perfection. He then wandered far and wide over the Himalayan region expressing his realization. More ...
Click to enlarge	LIGHT OF FEARLESS INDESTRUCTIBLE WISDOM: The Life and Legacy of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal 350 pp., replete with 15 color photos, 20 line drawings, and 43 b&w photos. Paperback edition. #LIFEIN - list price $ 18.95 Our Price $13.27 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Beloved master, visionary, poet, revealer of profound spiritual treasures, His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche was a paramount figure in the history of twentieth-century Tibet. He worked closely with H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama to reinvigorate Tibetan culture and spiritual practice following the loss of their homeland. Nyingma masters and devotees, both ordained and lay, unanimously appointed him Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, and he served in this capacity until his passing in 1987. More ...
Click to enlarge	by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal 350 pp., replete with 15 color photos, 20 line drawings, and 43 b&w photos. Cloth edition. (See full description above.) #LIFENC - list price $ 29.95 Our Price $20.96 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion
Click to enlarge	LION OF SIDDHAS: The Life and Teachings of Padampa Sangye by Padampa Sangye, translated by David Molk with Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche 338 pp., paper edition. #LISILI - list price $ 18.95 Our Price $13.27 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Best known as Machig Labdron's teacher, the Indian mahasiddha Padampa Sangye is counted as a lineage guru by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He brought the lineage of Ch�d to Tibet, carried the Buddha's teachings to China, and is even asserted, in the Tibetan tradition, to have been the legendary Bodhidharma. More ...
Click to enlarge	MUSIC IN THE SKY: The Life, Art and Teachings of the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje by Michele Martin. 400 pp., 59 color photos, 2 maps, drawings by the Karmapa. #MUSK - list price $ 18.95 Our Price $13.27 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion As the second millennium drew to a close, the Seventeenth Karmapa leapt from the roof at his monastery in Tibet. Evading his Chinese guards, the 14-year-old spiritual leader began a grueling, dangerous journey to India. The Karmapa's picture has appeared all over the world since then, yet his own words are hard to find. Now, for the first time in print, Music in the Sky offers a series of the Karmapa's profound teachings, an extensive selection of his poetry, and a detailed and gripping account of his life and flight from his homeland. Readers will be captivated by this wonderfully accessible and profound book. More ...
Click to enlarge	NIGUMA, LADY OF ILLUSION by Sarah Harding, a Tsadra Foundation Series book 392 pp., 1 line drawing, cloth. #NIGUMA - list price $ 32.95 Our Price $23.07 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Providing a rare glimpse of feminine Buddhist history, Niguma, Lady of Illusion brings to the forefront the life and teachings of a mysterious eleventh-century Kashmiri woman who became the source of a major Tibetan Buddhist practice lineage. The circumstances of her life and extraordinary qualities ascribed to her are analyzed in the greater context of spiritual biography and Buddhist doctrine.� More than an historical presentation, Niguma's story raises the question of women as real spiritual leaders versus male images of "feminine principle" and other related contemporary issues. More ...
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