The Beginners Corner

If you are relatively new to Buddhism, we have selected a few well written books for beginning Buddhist. Or it you have some friends interested in Buddhism, one of these books may be of benefit.

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Guide to Shamatha and Vipashyana Meditation (Book)

This 74 page book gives a clear and concise overview of how to do basic sitting meditation. Thrangu Rinpoche has spent the last 40 years teaching meditation and other Buddhist topics to both Western and Asian students. The process of developing good meditation begins with Shamatha meditation which...

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Cultivating True Compassion (PDF)

Atisha was a great Bengal scholar who went to Sumatra to a thriving Buddhist community there and met his root guru and studied the Mahayana for 12 years. When he returned to India, he was invited to go to Tibet which was undergoing many Dharma difficulties after the Tibetan King Langdarma had tried...

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Guide to Shamatha and Vipasyana Meditation (PDF)

This 74 page book gives a clear and concise overview of how to do basic sitting meditation. Thrangu Rinpoche has spent the last 40 years teaching meditation and other Buddhist topics to both Western and Asian students. The process of developing good meditation begins with Shamatha meditation which...

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Welcoming the Unwelcome by Pema Chodron (PDF)

Pema Chödrön is one of the three best selling Buddhist teachers. She has the amazing ability to take problems and concerns that we ordinary people all have and to show us how to get through this using the wisdom of Buddhism. The full title of this book is Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted...

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Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron (PDF)

The Places that Scare You has the subtitle A Guide to Frearlessness in Difficult Times. Pema begins with a quote from the famous female yogi Machig Labdron detailing how one should practice and ending with "go to place that scare you." This PDF is an exact copy of the 138 page book which carefully...

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Middle Way Meditation Instructions of Mipham (PDF)

In this book Thrangu Rinpoche in his own words explains the meditation techniques for developing compassion and expanding this state into the aspiration of bodhichitta. This text gives a detailed explanation of how one meditates to develop this wisdom. While all three vehicles were practiced in...

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Three Vehicles of Buddhist Practice (PDF)

This extensive set of teachings was one of Thrangu Rinpoche's introductions to the basic concepts of the three vehicles of Buddhism. When Buddhism came to Tibet, the great masters of meditation determined that to practice Buddhism properly, all three vehicles, or levels, of Buddhism have to be...
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