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  • Understanding the Case Against Shukden

    The History of a Contested Tibetan Practice

    by Gavin Kilty ...
    Leaders of the Dalai Lama’s tradition illuminate the issues surrounding the Shukden controversy.Before the twentieth century, the figure of Shukden, or Dölgyal, was an obscure one in the pantheon of Tibetan Buddhism’s many oracles and protectors. But after individuals within the Geluk tradition began to promote and disseminate the practice, division arose among Buddhists of different sects. Later, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Light of Samantabhadra

    An Explanation of Dharmakirti's Commentary on Valid Cognition

    Series series The Khenpo Appey Collection of Sakya Classics
    An illuminating gateway to Indian philosophy and its explication in Tibet.Among the many works produced in the rich philosophical tradition of India’s classical age, few have had more impact than Dharmakirti’s Commentary on Valid Cognition (Pramanavarttika). Composed in India in the seventh century, it became the cornerstone for the study of logic and epistemology in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Life of My Teacher

    A Biography of Kyabjé Ling Rinpoché

    by His Holiness the Dalai Lama ...
    Translated by Gavin Kilty ...
    The Dalai Lama tells the life story of his remarkable teacher, Ling Rinpoché, who remained a powerful anchor for him from childhood and into his emergence as a global spiritual leader.The Sixth Ling Rinpoché (1903–83) was a towering figure in Tibetan Buddhism. Combining great learning with great humility, he was ordained by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and went on to serve as the the head of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Splendor of an Autumn Moon

    The Devotional Verse of Tsongkhapa

    by Je Tsongkhapa ...
    Translated by Kilty, Gavin Kilty ...
    “Some of the most inspiring verses ever written.”—Geshe Thupten Jinpa, PhD, founder, Institute for Tibetan ClassicsThe Tibetan saint Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Dalai Lama's tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, was renowned for his vast learning, meditational achievements, influential writings on practice and philosophy, and reform of tantric religious practices. A deeply humble and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tales from the Tibetan Operas

    by Gavin Kilty ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    Eight Tibetan opera narratives express Buddhist concepts in myths and stories for the enjoyment and edification of readers of all ages.Timeless Buddhist ideas come to life in the myths and stories in Tales from the Tibetan Operas. Poetically vibrant, these eight classic lhamo stories have continued to delight and edify Tibetan audiences of all backgrounds, from village children to learned scholar ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages

    Teachings on Guhyasamaja Tantra

    by Je Tsongkhapa ...
    Translated by Gavin Kilty ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    Tsongkhapa's A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages (1419) is a comprehensive presentation of the highest yoga class of Buddhist tantra, especially the key practices - the so-called five stages (pancakrama) - of the advanced phase of Guhyasamaja tantra. Beginning with a thorough examination of the Indian sources, Tsongkhapa draws particularly from the writings of Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Candrakirti, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Ornament of Stainless Light

    An Exposition of the Kalachakra Tantra

    by Khedrup Norsang Gyatso ...
    Translated by Gavin Kilty ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    The premiere volume of Thupten Jinpa's thirty-two-volume Library of Tibetan Classics series, inaugurated to coincide with the Dalai Lama's conferral of the initiation rite of Kalacakra in Toronto in April 2004.The Kalacakra, or "wheel of time," tantra likely entered Indian Mahayana Buddhism around the tenth century. In expounding the root tantra, the Indian master Pundarika, one of the legendary ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Mirror of Beryl

    A Historical Introduction to Tibetan Medicine

    by Sangye Desi Gyatso ...
    Translated by Gavin Kilty ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    Composed while its author was the ruler of Tibet, Mirror of Beryl is a detailed account of the origins and history of medicine in Tibet through the end of the seventeenth century. Its author, Desi Sangye Gyatso (1653 - 1705), was the heart disciple and political successor of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama and the author of several highly regarded works on Tibetan medicine, including his Blue Beryl, a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Introduction to the Middle Way

    Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Commentary by Ju Mipham

    by Chandrakirti ...
    An adventure into the heart of Buddhist wisdom through the Madhyamika—or Middle Way—teachingsThis book includes a verse translation of the Madhyamakavatara by the renowned seventh-century Indian master Chandrakirti, an extremely influential text of Mahayana Buddhism, followed by an exhaustive logical explanation of its meaning by the modern Tibetan master Jamgön Mipham, composed approximately ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Nagarjuna's Middle Way

    Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Mark Siderits, Shoryu Katsura ...
    Series series Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way

    The Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Nagarjuna ...
    Translated by Padmakara Translation Group ...
    This volume presents a new English translation of the founding text of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahayana Buddhism, Nagarjuna’s Root Stanzas of the Middle Way, and includes the Tibetan version of the text. The Root Stanzas holds an honored place in all branches of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as in the Buddhist traditions found in China, Japan, and Korea, because of the way it develops ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Buddhism: Basic Guidelines for Practicing Buddhism in Your Daily Life

    by Jessica Green ...
    According to recent studies the so-called Western World is in a psychological crisis. The United States alone is leading the world in anxiety levels and has become a nation where a certain pervasive nervousness has become an identifiable national trait! Even Donald Trump and Marco Rubio take notes on who has the biggest meltdowns; during a presidential campaign that uses “nervous nelly” as a ... Read more

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