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THE LOTUS-BORN: The Life Story of Padmasamhava by Yeshe Tsogyal, fore. by Dilgo Khyentse 336 pp. #LOBOP - $ 22.00 In English translation for the first time, this "most authoritative" life story was recorded by the dakini Yeshe Tsogyal, concealed, and then revealed in the 12th century. Contains instructions that the lotus born Padmasambhava left for future generations. Also includes an extensive glossary and index. | |
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THE MADMAN'S MIDDLE WAY: Reflections on Reality of a Modernist Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel by Donald Lopez, Jr. Cloth. 264 pp. #MAMIWA - regular price $ 35.00 Our Price $28.00 Gendun Chopel, an important 20th intellectual, wrote Adornment for Nagarjuna's Thought, here translated and accompanied by an essay on Chopel's life. Lopez provides a commentary that sheds light on the doctrinal context and summarizes key arguments. More ... | |
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by Donald Lopez, Jr. Paper, 264 pp. (See description above.) #MAMIWP - $ 20.00 | |
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THE MAHASIDDHA AND HIS IDIOT SERVANT by John Riley Perks 248 pp. #MAID - $ 17.95 John Perks was Chogyam Trugpa Rinpoche's butler, attendant, and personal secretary for seven years. This is a book about their personal relationship--a book Rinpoche asked the author to write. More ... | |
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A MARVELOUS GARLAND OF RARE GEMS: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage by Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, trans. by Richard Barron Cloth. 736 pp. #MAGARA - $ 49.00 Maps all the distinct lineages of Dzogchen transmission, from the Buddha to present-day masters. Included are the lives of students of the great masters, stories from the oral tradition, and different teaching styles. More ... | |
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MASTERS OF MAHAMUDRA: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas by Keith Dowman 454 pp. #MAMA - $ 32.95 These eighty-four masters who led unconventional lives include some of the greatest Buddhist teachers: Tilopa, Naropa, and Marpa among them. Keith Dowman translated their songs of realization and the legends about them and gives a commentary on each of the Great Adepts. | |
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MASTERS OF MEDITATION AND MIRACLES: The Longchen Nyingthig Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by Tulku Thondup 478 pp. #MAMEMI - $ 34.95 Masters of Meditation & Miracles contains lively biographies of 34 important masters in the Nyingma lineage of the Longchen Nyingthig. Beginning with Garap Dorje, these stories convey exemplary lives led in monasteries, mountains, woods, and caves--lives of great austerity and dedication, superb humility and peace, profound learning and wisdom, amazing miracles and joy. More ... | |
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MEMORIES OF LIFE IN LHASA UNDER CHINESE RULE by Tubten Khetsun, trans. and intro. by Matthew Akester Cloth. 318 pp. #MELILH - $ 32.50 This is the first unmediated, single-authored autobiography to appear in English by a Tibetan who lived through Lhasa's gulag era of the 1960s and 1970s. Tubten Khetsun, an officer in the former Tibetan government, is an assiduous and unflinching chronicler of events and their details. He has produced a book that has little trace of the rhetoric or emotion of nationalist loss. Instead, he offers an unvarnished account of the everyday mechanics of socialist transformation as he experienced it in Tibet. The result, in this meticulous translation, is a new and important source for understanding modern Tibeto-Chinese history as seen by inhabitants of the Tibetan capital."--Robert Barnett, director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University More ... | |
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NYIMA TASHI: Songs, Instructions, and Recollections of the Peerless, Holy Guru fore. by 9th Kyabgon Traleg Rinpoche, trans by Yeshe Gyamtso Cloth, 175 pp. #NYTA - regular price $ 19.95 Our Price $15.96 This wonderful collection encompasses recollections, prophecies of future births, instructions, and songs of the first Traleg Rinpoche, a rebirth of Saltong Shogom. Includes the story of the relics. | |
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OLD PATH WHITE CLOUDS: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha by Thich Nhat Hanh 600 pp., 40 drawings. #OLPAWH - $ 26.95 Thich Nhat Hanh brings to life the story of the Buddha with his beautiful and vibrant style. It traces the Buddha's life, slowly and gently through the eyes of Svasti, the buffalo boy who provided kusha grass for the Buddha's enlightenment cushion, and through the eyes of the Buddha himself. | |
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THE OPEN ROAD: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer Cloth. 275 pp. #OPROGL - $ 24.00 One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. More ... | |
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PORTRAITS OF TIBETAN BUDDHIST MASTERS by Don Farber, fore. by Sogyal Rinpoche Cloth. 160 pp., 77 color illustrations. #POTIB - $ 34.95 Superb color photos of some of the most influential masters of contemporary Buddhism--including the Dalai Lama, Chogyam Trungpa, and Sogyal Rinpoche--presented together with quotations from each of them. Each portrait is accompanied by a short biography. A feast for the eyes, and a moving testament to the range of great modern-day Buddhist masters. Over 70 fabulous portraits of masters from four lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. More ... | |
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PRAISE TO THE LOTUS BORN: A Verse Garland of Waves of Devotion by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche 192 pp. #PRLOBO - regular price $ 20.00 Our Price $16.00 Written by the co-founder of the international Padmasambhava Buddhist Centers, this biography of Padmasambhava--in verse form--is clearly inspired, each poem serving as a blessing. Enhanced by lively, helpful notes. More ... | |
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PRECIOUS ESSENCE: The Inner Autobiography of Terchen Barway Dorje trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso, fore. by HH 17th Karmapa Cloth. 267 pp. #PRESIN - regular price $ 22.95 Our Price $18.36 Terchen Barway Dorje, an reincarnation of one of Padmasambhava's 25 disciples, was a famous 19th Century revealer of "treasures"—teachings hidden for centuries to be revealed at the appropriate time—including the Dakini Cycle and the Vajrakila Cycle. This biography is a fascinating record of his inner and outer life. More ... | |
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RAZOR-WIRE DHARMA: A Buddhist Life in Prison by Calvin Malone 224 pp. #RAWIDH - $ 16.95 Calvin Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence. He’s also a practicing Buddhist. Oddly enough, it was in prison that Malone learned about Buddhism, and it’s the one thing that’s kept him going. Some of the stories he tells in Razor-Wire Dharma are hilarious, some are harrowing, but all express Buddhist wisdom as vividly as any practitioner could hope to do. This is true Buddhism: Malone is living it, and in the unlikeliest of places. For him, the choice between staying true to his principles of altruism, compassion, and nonharming--or just choosing to cast a blind eye--often requires that he quite literally jeopardize life, limb, and the few small comforts available to him to try to do what's right. If he can do it in jail, he can do it anywhere. And as his book in all its gritty beauty makes clear, so can we. | |
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RECALLING CHOGYAM TRUNGPA comp. and ed. by Fabrice Midal, fore. by Diana Judith Mukpo 352 pp. #RECHTR - regular price $ 24.95 Our Price $14.97 Wide-ranging essays and interviews on one of the most influential teachers of our time--Chogyam Trungpa. Includes Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron, Sakyong Mipham on spiritual warriorship, Reginal Ray on Trungpa as a modern exemplar of the tantric ideal, Ann Waldman on Trungpa's work with avant-garde poets, Bernie Glassman on Trungpa's emphasis on creating an enlightened society, and much more. | |
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SACRED VOICES OF THE NYINGMA MASTERS by Sandra Scales Cloth, 12" x 10", 248 pp. #SAVONY - $ 39.90 This gathering of intimate photographic portraits of 22 exalted Nyingma lamas, together with teachings each of them gave specifically for this book, is a real treasure. Many of these large-format photos are printed on a gorgeous matte gold background, and gold is also used judiciously throughout the text, creating a sacred feeling. Sections include Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, Sogyal Rinpoche, and Khandro Rinpoche, plus many others. Royalties go toward saving the lives of animals. More ... | |
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A SAINT IN SEATTLE: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche by David P. Jackson 768 pp., 126 b&w photos. #SASE - $ 34.95 A thorough account of the life of one of the pre-eminent scholars of the Sakya lineage and master of the teachings of all Tibetan Buddhist schools. In America he was known as a teacher of teachers and a humble, wise, and modern buddha. More ... | |
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SIDDHARTHA by Hermann Hesse, trans. by Sherab Chodzin Kohn 4 x 6.75, 192 pp. #SI2 - $ 5.99 A fresh rendition of this masterpiece of spiritual awakening, newly translated by a gifted Buddhist translator. Kohn beautifully conveys Hesse's subtle understanding of the texture of meditative experience in this wonderful tale. This edition includes an introduction exploring Hesse's own spiritual journey, as evidenced in his journals and letters. | |