SNOW LION PUBLICATIONS' LIBRARY OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM

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BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY and PRACTICE                View A-Z Snow Lion Titles
Introductory
    
Answers
     The Art of Peace
     Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
     A Beginner's Guide to Tibetan Buddhism
     The Bodhisattva Vow
     Boundless Heart
     Buddhism for Beginners
     Buddhism for Busy People
     The Buddhism of Tibet
     Buddhism through American Women's Eyes
     Buddhism with an Attitude
     The Buddhist Path: A Practical Guide from the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
     Calming the Mind
     Compassionate Action
     A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
     The Courage to Feel
     Cultivating a Compassionate Heart
     The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness
     Daring Steps toward Fearlessness (out of print)
     Daring Steps: Traversing the Path of the Buddha
     Developing Balanced Sensitivity
     Dharma Paths 2nd Edition
     Eight Verses for Training the Mind
     Enough! A Buddhist Approach to Finding Release from Addictive Patterns
     Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism
     The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart
     The Four Noble Truths
     Garland of Mahamudra Practices
     Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path
     Healing Anger
     Heartfelt Advice
     How to Free Your Mind
     How to Realize Emptiness
     Hurry Up and Meditate
     Images of Enlightenment
     Impermanence: Embracing Change
     Into the Heart of Life
     Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path (revised updated edition)
     Introduction to the Kalachakra Initiation
     Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
     Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Revised Edition)
     Kindness, Clarity & Insight (new 25th anniversary edition)
     Lighting the Way
     Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga
     Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot
     Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness
     Mind Training
     MO: Tibetan Divination System
     Music in the Sky
     Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend
     No Self, No Problem
     Open Heart, Clear Mind
     Opening to Our Primordial Nature
     Opening the Door to Bon
    
The Path to Enlightenment
     Parting from the Four Attachments
     Realizing Emptiness
     Reflections on a Mountain Lake
     Relating to a Spiritual Teacher
     The Second Dalai Lama
     The Seven-Point Mind Training
     The Six Perfections
     Stages of Meditation
     Taming the Mind
     The Teacher-Student Relationship
     The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
     The Three Visions
     Transforming Adversity into Joy and Courage (formerly: Transforming the Heart)
     A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for Connecting with Others
     Vinegar into Honey: Seven Steps to Understanding and Transforming Anger, Aggression, and Violence
     Working with Anger
Intermediate
    
Appearance and Reality
     Aryadeva's Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way
     Balancing the Mind
     Bodhicitta
     The Bodhisattva Vow
     Buddha Nature
     Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation
     Buddhist Fasting Practice: The Nyungne Method of Thousand-Armed Chenrezig
     Treasury of Knowledge- Book Five: Buddhist Ethics
     Buddhist Philosophy
     Calm Abiding and Special Insight
     Center of the Sunlit Sky
     Changing Minds
     Chöd in the Ganden Tradition
     Chöd Practice in the Bön Tradition
     A Complete Guide to the Buddhist Path
     Choosing Simplicity
     The Dalai Lama at Harvard
     The Dark Red Amulet: Oral Instructions on the Practice of Vajrakilaya
     Destroying Mara Forever: Buddhist Ethics Essays in Honor of Damien Keown
     Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light
     Echoes from an Empty Sky
     The Eighth Situpa on the Third Karmapa's Mahamudra Prayer
     Enlightened Courage
     Enthronement
     Essential Practice
     Everyday Consciousness and Buddha-Awakening
     Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness
     The Excellent Path to Enlightenment
     Feminine Ground
     Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism
     Fundamental Mind
     Gems of Wisdom by the Seventh Dalai Lama
     The Generation Stage in Buddhist Tantra
     Gone Beyond: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition, Volume One
     The Great Kagyu Masters
     Great Perfection: Outer and Inner Preliminaries
     The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Vols. 1, 2 & 3
     A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
     Guru Rinpoche
     Healing with Form, Energy, and Light
     Heart Sutra
     How Karma Works: The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
     The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice: Vasubandhu's Summary of the Five Heaps with Commentary by Sthiramati
     The Instructions of Gampopa
     Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path
     The Jewel Ornament of Liberation
     King of the Empty Plain: The Tibetan Iron-Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo
     Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa
     Lion of Siddhas: The Life and Teachings of Padampa Sangye
     Maitreya's Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being with commentary by Mipham
     Medicine Buddha Teachings
     Meditations to Transform the Mind
     Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self
     Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas
     Niguma, Lady of Illusion
     The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning
     Path to Bliss
     Pointing Out the Dharmakaya
     The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy
     Practice of Mahamudra
     A Practice of Padmasambhava: Essential Instructions on the Path to Awakening
     The Seven-Point Mind Training
     The Six Yogas of Naropa
     Straight from the Heart
     Study and Practice of Meditation: Tibetan Interpretations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
     Tara's Enlightened Activity
     The Third Karmapa's Mahamudra Prayer
     The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
     Tibetan Treasure Literature
     The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
     Timeless Rapture
     Training the Mind in the Great Way (out of print)
     Transcendent Wisdom
     The Treasury of Knowledge, Books Two, Three, and Four: Buddhism's Journey to Tibet
     The Treasury of Knowledge, Books 9 and 10: Journey and Goal
     Tsong-kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom
     The Union of Bliss and Emptiness: Teachings on the Practice of Guru Yoga
     The Union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta
     Wisdom Nectar
     The Wisdom of Imperfection (out of print)
     The Wisdom of Imperfection: The Challenge of Individuation in Buddhist Life
     Wise Teacher, Wise Student: Tibetan Approaches to a Healthy Relationship
     Zurchungpa's Testament
Advanced
    
Absorption in No External World
     The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
     Chod in the Ganden Tradition
     Chod Practice Manual and Commentary
     Deity, Mantra, and Wisdom
     The Essence of Other-Emptiness
     Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity
     The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
     Gone Beyond: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition, Volume Two
     In Praise of Dharmadhatu (trans. & intro.)
     The Karmapa's Middle Way: Feast for the Fortunate
     Maps of the Profound
     Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya's Madhyantavibhaga
       with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham

     The Moon of Wisdom
     Mountain Doctrine
     Nagarjuna's Precious Garland: Buddhist Advice for Living & Liberation
    
Ornament of the Middle Way
     The Ornament of Reason: The Great Commentary to Nagarjuna's Root of the Middle Way
     Speech of Delight
     Treasury of Knowledge- Book One: Myriad Worlds
     Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy
     The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana
     The Nature of Things
     Tibetan Literature
     Transcendent Wisdom (out of print)
     Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas (out of print)

BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHIC TENETS
    
Appearance and Reality
     Buddhist Philosophy
     Cutting Through Appearances
     Debate in Tibetan Buddhism
     Destroying Mara Forever: Buddhist Ethics Essays in Honor of Damien Keown (co-ed.)
     Echoes from an Empty Sky
     Emptiness Yoga
     Gone Beyond: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition, Volume One
     Gone Beyond: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition, Volume Two
     How to Read Classical Tibetan, Vol. Two: Buddhist Tenets
     The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice: Vasubandhu's Summary of the Five Heaps with Commentary by Sthiramati
     Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path
     The Karmapa's Middle Way: Feast for the Fortunate
     Knowing, Naming and Negation
     Knowledge and Liberation
     Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature
     Maps of the Profound
     Mind in Tibetan Buddhism
     The Moon of Wisdom
     The Nature of Things
     The Ornament of Reason: The Great Commentary to Nagarjuna's Root of the Middle Way
     A Study of Svantantrika
     Tibetan Logic
     Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy
     Tsong-kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom
     The Two Truths
     Unique Tenets of the Middle Way Consequence School

BASIC MEDITATION
    
Balancing the Mind
     Calm Abiding and Special Insight
     Calming the Mind
     Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path
     How to Practice Shamatha Meditation: The Cultivation of Meditative Quiescence
     Into the Heart of Life
     Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness
     The Practice of Tranquillity and Insight
     Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech, and Mind
     Walking Through Walls (out of print)

TANTRIC STUDIES and PRACTICES
    
Buddhist Fasting Practice: The Nyungne Method of Thousand-Armed Chenrezig
     The Dalai Lamas on Tantra
     The Dark Red Amulet: Oral Instructions on the Practice of Vajrakilaya
     Deity, Mantra, and Wisdom
     Deity Yoga
     Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity
     The Generation Stage in Buddhist Tantra
     Guru Yoga
     Highest Yoga Tantra
     How to Free Your Mind
     Images of Enlightenment
     Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual
     Luminous Essence: A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra
     Machig Labdron & the Foundations of Chod
     Machik's Complete Explanation
     Mahamudra Teachings of the Supreme Siddhas
     Mandala (video)
     The Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa
     The Practice of Vajrakilaya
     Preparing for Tantra: Creating the Psychological Ground for Practice
     The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra
     Readings on the Six Yogas of Naropa
     Sacred Ground
     The Sand Mandala of Vajrabhairava (out of print)
     The Six Yogas of Naropa
     Tantra in Tibet
     Tantric Techniques
     Tara's Enlightened Activity
     Trainings in Compassion
     Treasury of Knowledge- Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra
     Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice
     The Union of Bliss and Emptiness
     Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats

DEATH and DYING
    
Bardo Teachings
     Chod in the Ganden Tradition
     Chod Practice Manual
     Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth
     Living in the Face of Death
     Mind Beyond Death

KALACHAKRA TANTRA
    
As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama
     Highest Yoga Tantra
     Introduction to the Kalachakra Initiation
     Kalachakra and other Six Session Yoga Texts
     The Practice of Kalachakra
     Taking the Kalachakra Initiation (out of print)
     The Wheel of Time
     The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala

DZOGCHEN MEDITATION and PHILOSOPHY
    
Being Right Here
     The Crystal and the Way of Light
     Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light
     Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection
     Dzogchen Teachings
     Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
     Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices
     Great Perfection: Outer and Inner Preliminaries
     Great Perfection, Volume II: Separation and Breakthrough
     The Golden Letters
     Healing with Form, Energy, and Light
     Heart Drops of Dharmakaya
     Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission
     Introduction to Dzogchen (Video in European format)
     Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga
     Naked Awareness
     Natural Great Perfection
     Penetrating Wisdom: The Aspiration of Samantabhadra
     The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy
     The Philosophical View of the Great Perfection in the Tibetan Bon
     The Practice of Dzogchen
     Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness
     A Spacious Path to Freedom
     The Supreme Source
     Tantric Practice in Nyingma
     Wonders of the Natural Mind
     You are the Eyes of the World
     Zurchungpa's Testament

BOOKS and RECORDINGS BY THE DALAI LAMA
    
Answers
     The Art of Peace
     The Buddhism of Tibet
     Consciousness at the Crossroads
     The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness
     The Dalai Lama at Harvard
     The Dalai Lamas on Tantra
     Deity Yoga
     Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection
     Eight Verses for Training the Mind
     Eight Verses for Training the Mind(CD audio teaching)
     The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
     Healing Anger
     Kindness, Clarity, and Insight (New 25th Anniversary Edition)
     Lighting the Way
     Overcoming Differences (video)
     The Path to Bliss
     The Path to Enlightenment
     Stages of Meditation
     Tantra in Tibet
     Transcendent Wisdom
     The Union of Bliss and Emptiness: Teachings on the Practice of Guru Yoga
     Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats

BÖN BUDDHIST RELIGION (BONPO)
    
Chöd Practice in the Bön Tradition
     Healing with Form, Energy, and Light
     Heart Drops of Dharmakaya
     Opening the Door to Bon
    
The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
     Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech, and Mind
     Wonders of the Natural Mind

RESTRICTED TEXTS
    
Essence of Clear Light: An Overview of the Secret Commentary "Thorough Dispelling of Darkness throughout the Ten Directions"
     The Extremely Secred Dakini of Naropa: Vajrayogini Practice and Commentary
     Great Perfection, Volume II: Separation and Breakthrough
     The Guhyagarbha Tantra: Secret Essence, Definitive Nature Just As It Is
     Key to the Precious Treasury: A Concise Commentary on the General Meaning of the "Glorious Secret Essence Tantra"
     The Roar of Thunder: Commentaries on the Two Stages of Glorious Vajrabhairava
     Source of Supreme Bliss: Heruka Chakrasamvara Five Deity Practice and Commentary
     Treasury of Esoteric Instructions: An Explication of the Oral Instructions of the Path with the Result
     Yeshe Lama: Vidyadhara Jigmed Lingpa