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  • The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama

    by Ngawang Lhundrup Dargyé ...
    Translated by Simon Wickham-Smith ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
    The life of the Sixth Dalai Lama does not end with his supposed death at Kokonor in November 1706, on the way to Beijing, and an audience with the Manchu Emperor Kangxi. This book, the so-called Hidden Life, presents a very different Tsangyang Gyamtso, neither a louche poet nor a drinker, but a sober Buddhist practitioner, who chose to escape at Kokonor and to adopt the guise of a wandering monk, ... Read more

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  • The Tibetan Book of Meditation

    by Lama Christie McNally ...
    Meditation helps us relax, sharpens our minds, and increases our creativity. In The Tibetan Book of Meditation, Lama Christie McNally demonstrates that meditation also provides a much greater gift. It awakens our innate potential to shape our reality, to make moments of joy last forever, and to bring us the peace and contentment that we all ultimately seek.Written in an instructional yet intimate ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead

    The Great Liberation Through Hearing In The Bardo

    by Chogyam Trungpa, Francesca Fremantle ...
    Series series Shambhala Classics
    In this classic scripture of Tibetan Buddhism—traditionally read aloud to the dying to help them attain liberation—death and rebirth are seen as a process that provides an opportunity to recognize the true nature of mind. This translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead emphasizes the practical advice that the book offers to the living. The insightful commentary by Chögyam Trungpa, written in ... Read more

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  • Creating the Causes of Happiness: Lamrim Teachings from Kopan 1991

    Kopan Courses, #2

    by Lama Zopa Rinpoche ...
    Series Book 2 - Kopan Courses
    The second volume of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings given during the 24th Kopan lam-rim course in 1991explores topics such as the nature of the mind, karma, death, reincarnation and emptiness.The series offers lightly edited transcripts that we hope will convey the feeling of being in Nepal for the one-month Kopan course. You can also find many other annual Kopan teaching course transcripts ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perfect Clarity

    by Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche, Milarepa yogi, Longchen Rabjam, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche ...
    For practitioners on the paths of Dzogchen and Mahamudra, one of the greatest joys is to personally receive oral instructions from a realized teacher. The excitement of being able to train based on that advice is further enhanced by the stimulation and support that guidance manuals provide. All of the selections presented in Perfect Clarity offer incredible teachings that are inspiring and vital. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones

    The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action

    by Patrul Rinpoche ...
    In this book, two great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenge us to critically examine our materialistic preoccupations and think carefully about how we want to spend the rest of our lives. At the same time, they provide practical guidance in following the Buddhist path, starting from the most basic motivation and culminating in the direct experience of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Garden

    A Parable

    by Geshe Michael Roach ...
    With The Garden, centuries of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom are brought to life for readers by one of its greatest Western teachers, Michael Roach. Through a parable in which a young man is brought into a mystical garden by a beautiful embodiment of Wisdom, Roach presents the pantheon of great Tibetan teachers. The nameless seeker lured to the garden meets the dominant historical figures who have ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ruler of the Sky

    A Novel of Genghis Khan

    by Pamela Sargent ...
    A novel of the thirteenth-century Mongolian warrior, and the women who surrounded him, that offers "a panoramic view of the charismatic leader" ( Library Journal).In 1167, in the harsh homeland of Mongol tribes, a child was born who was to change the course of human history. His father named him Temujin, but the world knows him as Genghis Khan. Set amid the barbaric splendor of the Mongol hordes, ... Read more

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  • Born in Tibet

    by Chogyam Trungpa ...
    Chögyam Trungpa—meditation master, scholar, and artist—was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku, or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a period of intensive training in meditation, philosophy, and fine arts, receiving full ordination as a monk in 1958 at the age of eighteen. The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Tibet

    by Sam van Schaik ...

    $25.19 USD

  • This Precious Life

    Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on the Path to Enlightenment

    by Khandro ...
    Using the traditional Tibetan Buddhist framework of the Four Reminders—the preciousness of human birth, the truth of impermanence, the reality of suffering, and the inescapability of karma—Khandro Rinpoche explains why and how we could all better use this short life to pursue a spiritual path and make the world a better place. The book includes contemplative exercises that encourage us to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cutting the Root of Samsara: Lamrim Teachings from Kopan 1991

    Kopan Courses, #3

    by Lama Zopa Rinpoche ...
    Series Book 3 - Kopan Courses
    The third volume of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings given during the 24th Kopan lam-rim course in 1991 includes a clear discussion on sexual misconduct, an explanation of how karmic appearance and emptiness are intertwined and a multifaceted commentary on the eight Mahayana precepts motivation.The series offers lightly edited transcripts in four volumes that we hope will convey the feeling of being ... Read more

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